Ammar Alshukry – A mistake MANY people make when seeking knowledge
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You have a person who wants to get
healthy and they go to the gym.
This person goes to the gym, and they
spend all of their time walking on the
treadmill,
and I say walking 2 miles an hour,
maybe 1.5,
and high fiving friends,
having conversations,
and, going and and and getting smoothies from
the smoothie,
spot.
But they go regularly. They go 2 times
a week, 3 times a week, and that's
their gym routine.
After 6 months, they've been going consistently to
the gym, but they don't see the results
that they're looking for. What advice would you
have to this person?
Seriously, what what what advice would you guys
have worth it? Like, what's missing from their
They're consistent. They're going, but they're not seeing
the results. I didn't describe this. Okay. Yes,
sir. Push yourself. Okay. Push yourself. Yes, Ahmed.
Say more structure. Okay. More structure, Mohammed. Put
an incline on that side. Put an incline
on that side.
Make yourself uncomfortable. Make yourself uncomfortable?
Focus. Focus? Yes? Take your diet. Take your
diet? No more smoothies.
Yeah. After any direct, no more smoothies. No
more smoothies?
Are the smoothies the problem?
Okay. Seek advice from people that have the
results that you want. Seek advice from people
who have results? I would say probably what
what everybody's alluding to is you need to
turn up the intensity.
Like, your intensity is just too low. You're
going on a scale of 1 to 10,
you're on 1.
Everything that you're doing is on 1. Now
the thing is, a lot of people when
they're attending classes, they attend with that level
of intensity, that same level.
They're coming, they're chilling,
the treadmill's on 1, they're gonna go have
cookies outside,
they're gonna meet their friends, and then the
message, how long have I been attending the
message for, like 10 years? I'm not a
scholar yet.
So the question is, how would we how
would you advise that person to increase their
intensity?
Right now, they come, they sit, they listen,
they benefit from the right? But they don't
remember anything
when it's time to remember anything.
So how do they turn up the intensity?
What would we do to let's say, bring
it up to a 5. Let's bring it
up to a 4. What would it be
like best?
Like a in one of the shit right
now. Okay. So number 1 right now. What
else?
Yes? Reflecting on what you learned after the
session with your friends instead of maybe talking
about other things. Okay. So reflecting on what
you learned after the session with your friends
instead of talking about other things. Yes? More
distant friends. What's your name, Jeff? Kareem. Kareem.
Yes.
It takes me 7 times, Kareem. So that's
number 2.
What's,
what do you mean by more discipline? What
does that look like? More discipline in your
aspect of 5 shows the way you were
taxed on this. So Okay. But we're looking
specifically at this context. The the how do
I increase
it from a 1 to a 4? What
would that look like? Yes? You can, I
guess maybe, like, listen to the lecture and
listen to it again? Okay. So listening it
to it again. So record it and then
let's do it again. We'll listen to the
recording online. Very good. What else? Yes? I'll
sit in the front, not the back. Okay.
So sit in the front, not the back.
Shout out to people in the back. Yes.
Yes. My sisters, what else do you got?
Yes, Mohammed. Put your hand up and ask
questions. Okay. Ask questions. Yes. Take notes. Okay.
So we have take notes already. Yes.
Transcribe the audio and give an AI to
summarize and keep up. Transcribe the audio. Yes.
Interact with the the lessons that people are
on. Okay. Interact with the blessed people around
you. So are we still at 4, or
should we take it up or not?
Yes. I'll fly one thing every week. Okay.
I'll fly something practicing it. Yes? Make a
quizlet about it.
Make a quizlet about it. Make a quizlet
about it. Very good. So what's the last
4? Let's say, what would 7 look like?
I'm interested. What would 7 look like? Yes.
Okay.
So excellent. So teach it to others.
Make it to remember. Okay. So make that
to remember it. Yes. Did you have your
hand up? I did. Yes. It was, like,
normally with any lectures or something that you
hear they don't know about, go and delve
into that topic that you Okay. So so
so do more research on the topic. So
there's this is an interesting part that I
heard today, and now I'm going to go
and explore it more. Absolutely. Researching it. Absolutely.
What else?
What else?
Anything else? We're at 7. Did we max
out or is there still 10?
Yes.
Write it on your own words what you
understood. Okay. So what you understood in your
own words. Very good. Yes. What you learn,
apply to yourself in you. Okay. Apply what
you learn. Okay. So we're still set now.
We're gonna turn it all the way up.
Now we're going psycho. What did what is
10?
Yes. Hang out with the chair.
Hang out with the chair. Hang out with
the chair. Hang out with the chair. Yes.
Hang out the chair. Hang out the chair.
Hang out the chair. Hang out the chair.
Hang out the chair. Hang out the chair.
Hang out the chair. Hang out the chair.
Hang out the chair. Hang out the chair.
Hang out the chair. Hang out the chair.
Hang out the chair. Hang out the chair.
Okay. That's not 10. That's like 1. That's
what everyone does. That's what everybody does anyway.
So what's 10?
Yes. Forget about everything else while you're there.
Forget about everything else while you're there. Yes.
Forgive about everything else while you're there. Forget
about everything else while you're there. Yes? Read
the book. Read the book? That's not a
10, brother. But yeah. Yeah. Read the read
the book. Like, I'll give you guys an
example of what ten is. Imams Imam
went to go study in the Muwakat with
Imam Malik.
Muwatta is Imam Malik's book of hadith. Okay?
Around, I think if I remember correctly, it's
7 1,000 hadith.
Imam al Shafi'i
doesn't read the book, he memorizes the book,
and then he goes to Imam Malik.
K?
He go imagine someone comes up to you
and says, I memorized your book.
Like, that's
10.
So now, I'm so familiar with your book.
I'm not here
to necessarily be exposed to information for the
first time. That's not why I'm here. I'm
here because I've been wrestling with these 3
or 4 or 5 or 10 thoughts about
this book that I wanna engage you with.
With. You know, I had doctor Hadid Behj
Khalil Abad. One time, Sheikh Salat was coming.
This was back when I lived
in New York.
Sheikh Salat would come,
to the East Coast, and he would come
and he would give seminars.
And so I remember one time, doc he
was coming to give a seminar on a
book
that he had written, and doc Khadu had
asked me and he said he said, you
know, did you read the book? And I
said, no, I didn't.
And he said to me, I would never
do that. He said, I would never
attend
a
scholar session
on a book of his
without having read his book beforehand. Like, I'm
not coming to be exposed
for the first time. And then he told
me, he said, you know, Imam Shafei, memorized
Imam Shafei's book before
meeting him. You know, I was always a
smart
*. I'm like, I'm not I'm shabby into
the town. Well, forgive me, but I the
the point here, and I'm doubly not. The
point is is that
that's that's something, like, that's high level. Like,
for example, you have a visiting scholar coming
to Houston, coming on a topic that, you
know what, they're they're gonna lecture on. I
could just go and and
this isn't a movie. I'm not
like, being exposed to the information floor isn't
a spoiler. Like, I'm going for the purpose
of engaging this person.
So I go up and I look up
his lectures
or her lectures on the topic beforehand, similar
topics. And I figure out what's their thought
process. What are their, you know, what are
their arguments? What are their claims? What is
their what are their positions?
And I study it, and I learn it,
and I prepare I prepare it like I'm
coming to teach
it. I prepare it like I'm coming to