I started in the technology industry without knowing how to code.

I started an e-commerce store without knowing how to fulfill orders.

I started a productized service agency without knowing how to deliver.

I started creating free content online without knowing how to publish it.

I taught myself everything late at night with a lot of blood, sweat, and tears.

To save you the pain, I created this step-by-step guide allowing beginners to teach themselves everything about anything, without prior knowledge. I proved that it works four times in a row, so it will also work for you…

How you can easily and quickly outlearn everyone:

Step 1 — Pick Your Goal

Let me walk you through the guide using this example:

Your goal is to learn how to make YouTube videos.

Step 2 — Clear Your Mind

You have to think clearly if you want to think intuitively.

Go for a walk, meditate, wait until you fall asleep, or wake up.

Fabian Frank Werner @fabifrankwerner “A quiet mind is able to hear intuition over fear.” ― Yvan Byeajee 1:36 PM • Jun 20, 2024 0 Retweets 1 Likes

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Do whatever it takes to quiet your mind. If that applies, continue…

Step 3 — Transform Your Goal Into One Question

The answer to your question is the knowledge you need to acquire. This is our goal posed as a question:

How do I make a YouTube video?

Look up the answer online! At this point, you have learned that you need to be able to:

1. Record video.
2. Record audio.
3. Edit footage.
4. Use YouTube.

These are your next steps that you will break down into more questions (and answers).

But work on them one by one in this priority-based order! Because if you haven’t even finished your first video yet, there is no need for you to learn how to upload it to YouTube.

That makes sense, right? But that’s where most people waste a lot of time: learning something they don’t need yet.

Step 4 — Go Down Your Rabbit Hole

Question everything yourself. Use your intuition. Reorder your priorities.

If you learn how to excel in video and audio, because these are the fundamentals you need to master first, you will notice a recurring pattern. The best practice is to focus on mastering audio before video.

With that additional best practice implemented, our skills to acquire (ordered by priority) look like this:

1. Record audio.
2. Record video.
3. Edit footage.
4. Use YouTube.

Start by breaking down the complex skill of “audio” into manageable questions to find answers. Keep asking questions until you have exhausted all possibilities. Write down every question and its corresponding answer; I use Notion for that. For example, “How do I get good at recording audio?” Your questions might include:

• What are microphones?
• How do microphones function?
• What is the cost range for microphones?
• How do you integrate a microphone with a camera?
• What distinguishes a good microphone from a bad one?

If you stumble upon the broader topic of “video” through questioning, proceed down this path:

• What is a camera lens?
• How do cameras operate?
• What constitutes a camera body?
• How do I record video and audio simultaneously?
• How do I synchronize video and audio during the editing process?

If you uncover the expansive area of “editing” through inquiry, continue exploring:

• What is an editing program?
• What are the top editing programs available?
• Which among these is the best free editing program?

Continue this process until you exhaust all possible questions. Then seek out the answers.

Step 5 — Answer Your Questions Systematically

Start with the initial question you wrote down: “What are microphones?” and repeat this process systematically until all of your questions are answered.

Look it up online, read a book about it, listen to a podcast, or message professionals on social media to learn how they mastered it. Dive deeper and deeper. Throw yourself into the rabbit hole. Look for patterns and references. Which sources appear repeatedly? Note them down. Investigate them thoroughly. The sources where you found information are derivatives of other sources. Your goal is to find the original point of reference from which all other sources originated.

Everyone steals, whether it’s ideas, concepts, or references.

Fabian Frank Werner @fabifrankwerner Nothing is original. 11:59 AM • Jun 20, 2024 0 Retweets 1 Likes

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All knowledge is derived in one or multiple ways from other sources.

Perhaps the websites you discovered link to some videos.

Maybe those videos link to various courses.

Maybe those courses point back to the same timeless book.

In this example, that book would be the foundational source that originally educated people.

This book led to the creation of courses, which led to videos, which led to blog posts. Get used to digging for information. Follow your curiosity. Never be satisfied. If you use tools like Notion to organize your findings, you can become extremely proficient in any subject from scratch, making it easy to teach yourself anything. Practice makes perfect.

Conduct numerous experiments, head in the wrong direction, but continue down your rabbit hole, delving deeper to uncover more. Wrap your mind around the topic from beginning to end, and when you do, you’ll realize that your learning journey is never complete:

• You can always become more specific.
• You can always delve deeper.
• You can always learn more.

This is where true magic lies!