Hello Reader,

I’m finally back to writing…for a while. So I wanted to come back with a bang!

This week’s installment: a LOT of Anki workflow emails.

(Also: an implementation framework!)

Before I share with you this framework, I gotta admit…

I haven’t been in this space for a long time. And I’ve probably forgotten a few words in English (or two).

And to give you a brief context, this is because I focused on creating a few wins in my life last year:

1. Finally got traction on an e-commerce business
2. Met a lot of new friends (and family) that helped me get out of a dark place.
3. Learned management, coaching, and leadership (thanks to all the learning skills I worked on in the past few years!) and now I have more than a dozen people working with me in my e-commerce business
4. Went to Japan last April for cherry blossoms and finally proposed to my (now) fiancee!
5. Opened up our 2nd dental clinic last June (I do the marketing)

…and there’s so much to be thankful for -— including even a few subscribers who supported me back in my darker days. I’m really grateful for you guys.

Anyway, before I get teary-eyed here…

The beautiful thing is that 99% of what we’ve been talking about in the past emails (and blogs) are all timeless principles.

Meaning, they don’t just “expire” after a while. They just change in form, but not in essence.

And the systems and workflows you’re going to learn here in the next few days aren’t any different.

After all, they’re based on the unchanging truths about human memory and how we encode information into our long-term memory:

1. Encoding
2. Storage
3. Retrieval

But let’s be real here — this isn’t very useful, is it?

It’s ALL theory, but it can be confusing to implement. There’s an implementation gap.

That’s why in this email series we’ll be breaking this down into a simple method — let’s call it the “PEASI method”. (Easy…uhh, PEASI… got it?)

1. Plan. How to set yourself up to win. Most Anki users miss this a lot because they’re too focused on optimizing things that don’t matter much.
2. Encode. How to actually “learn before you memorize”. (i.e. as in 20 rules of formulating knowledge by Dr. Wozniak)
3. Ankify. Create good atomic flashcards for a specific application.
4. Spaced Repetition. Self-explanatory, I assume 🙂
5. Improve. How to get to use your cards in the long-term such that it grows with you, rather than outgrow you and get you buried in a pile of useless cards.

So…are you excited for this?!

I sure am, so here’s what we’re going to be talking about in the next 7 days… (might change a bit!)

Just to be transparent with you, there’s an invitation at the end for a very special offer for the courses. If you’re open to that, you can click here to “raise your hand” right away so I know you’re interested. 🙂

My honest-to-goodness intention here is to give amazing amounts of value so that you can get the results for yourself before even taking any classes from me.

Sounds good?

Alright, now I wanna hear from you…

What are you most excited about in this series?

Just reply to this email if you want to let me know 🙂

To smarter studying,
Al Khan

P.S. In case you've forgotten my face... (or maybe you haven't seen it yet?!)

Feels really good to be back writing again. I've grown a LOT since the past year. Hoping to share bits and pieces of my hard-earned lessons to this space.