Why?
Here’s what motivated us to kick off this club:
- In a world with so much to do all the time, we sometimes defer learning to let distractions rob our time.
- When we do have the time to learn, we struggle to choose what to give our attention to.
- The lessons we learn remain elusive, escaping our memory as time passes.
- We like hanging out in meaningful forums, but they’re too hard to find these days.
By joining this club, we get to learn together from a curated list of juicy ๐ง podcasts, ๐บ videos, and ๐ articles, and we support each other in making these invaluable lessons applicable to our own lives.
According to Bloom’s Taxonomy, which is a classification of the levels of learning meant to help educators design better learning experiences, remembering is the lowest order of learning. At best, this is what we get when we consume content without discussing or applying it. In this club, we will tap into the higher orders of thinking skills, allowing the lessons we receive to enrich our lives.
What does it look like?
Every week:
- We each ๐ง listen/๐บ watch/๐ read the learning material of the week individually.
- Then we all get into a meeting and discuss what we learned.
In order to absorb more from the learning material as we take it in, we’ll learn what we can do to increase our attention and memory, through practices such as non-linear note-taking.
Additionally, during our discussions we will craft ways to incorporate and apply the learned insights into our lives, and come back to them again in future discussions to reflect on them and analyze our experience.
Who’s joining this club?
By joining, you’ll be surrounded by people passionate about learning in a community.
Here are some of the core values the members live by:
Give a shit
We always put 100% into everything we do.
Succeed together
We build on each other’s strengths to make every interaction awesome.
Listen intently
“Seek first to understand then to be understood.”
Passionately debate
Ideas are not people, we share and criticize them freely.
Choose compassion
We care about each other, and make everyone feel safe.
Topics
We have a curated list of ๐ง podcasts/๐บ videos/๐ articles to serve as our preliminary curriculum.
โฝ๏ธ The Obstacles You Donโt See
This episode realigns our thinking to what’s important. Psychologist Nordgren suggests reducing friction, which is invisible, over adding more fuel when facing obstacles.
๐งโ๐ฌ The 4 things it takes to be an expert
This is one of those videos you watch once, then think about forever. It goes beyond Gladwell’s famous 10,000-hour rule and explores other requirements for becoming an expert.
๐คธโโ๏ธ Becoming Emotionally Agile
This episode is packed with impactful lessons! Emotional agility is what allows us to navigate our complex emotions and make choices aligned with our values.
These are the topics weโll dive into in the first month, then weโll choose the topics after that together.
Our weekly calls will start on โฆ
๐๏ธย Wednesday, Jan 31
You can join via ๐งโ๐ปย Zoom or by coming over to ๐๏ธ our living room in Baghdad, where I’ll be serving you my favorite tea and Mina her homemade cake.
Membership
It is our goal to make this club as accessible as possible while also covering expenses. So we have made the following โsmall, medium and largeโ price tiers available per 2-hour session. Regardless of which price tier you choose, you get the same experience:
- ๐น S: $10 if itโs a stretch for you to be investing in this club at the moment, please choose this tier.
- ๐ฒ M: $16 if you are financially stable and donโt have to think too much about whether you can afford this club, please choose this tier.
- ๐๏ธ L: $22 if you are financially flourishing, you have the opportunity to contribute to our scholarship fund and enable people with fewer resources to also participate.
Scholarships are available for those who need them. Your participation matters most to us, not the price.
Financial Transparency
Income from membership sales will be used to cover online tools and subscription expenses. The organizing team is donating their time, so weโll also use membership income to cover their expenses. Any surplus that is left at the end of the month will go towards The Journey (ุงูุฑุญูุฉ) fund, building a pool of funds to develop the network and organize future activities like this one, the 29 day challenge, the gap year, etc.
SO, READY TO JOIN US?