For the first time ever—never shared before anywhere else—the Synthesizer course presents a new strategic framework called the SYNTHE System.
The SYNTHE System outlines the step-by-step process I’ve personally developed over the last decade to produce almost 700 posts on Sloww including: 175+ email newsletters, 150+ Premium posts and infographics, 125+ book summaries, a full reading list, digital products, side projects, eBooks, and even the Synthesizer course itself!
It’s essentially everything I’ve learned to be called the “GOAT (Greatest Of All Time) resource”:
🧠 Doors now open: The new Synthesizer course is live!
What is the SYNTHE System? (Synthesizer Course Preview)
The SYNTHE System stands for:
- Spark (Observe & Question)
- Yearn (Search & Curate)
- Note (Read & Note)
- Think (Summarize & Synthesize)
- Hatch (Write & Create)
- Evolve (Discuss & Develop)
Here’s how the SYNTHE System comes to life in the context of the Synthesizer course:
📝 Course Modules Detail:
Aside from the Welcome & Wrapup modules, here’s a breakdown of the main modules for the SYNTHE System:
🔥 SPARK (Observe + Question): 10 Lessons ↓
Core Concepts: Five Minds & Multiple Intelligences; Living Inquiry
How-Tos: My Synthesizing Mind & Your Synthesizing Mind; Jim Collins (Flywheel Effect); Howard Gardner (Personal Flywheel & Synthesizing Mind); Maria Popova (Personal Flywheel & Synthesizing Mind); Sönke Ahrens (Personal Flywheel); Ken Wilber (Synthesizing Mind)
Brain Bonuses: Transformative Learning Synthesis & Infographics; Living Inquiry Synthesis & Infographic
❤️ YEARN (Search + Curate): 10 Lessons ↓
Core Concepts: Burning Yearning & Intellectual Need; Interdisciplinarity; Specialists, Generalists, & Curators
How-Tos: Search & Research, Acquire & Analyze; Determine Your Disciplines; Curate & Cite; Curating Sloww Sunday & Synthesis Mind
Brain Bonuses: How to be an Interdisciplinarian Synthesis & Infographics
🌐 NOTE (Read + Note): 10 Lessons ↓
Core Concepts: Reading Levels & Speeds; Dialectical Detachment, Coming to Terms, & Creating Common Ground; Physical Notes & Digital Notes
How-Tos: Pick Books; Read & Note
Brain Bonuses: “How to Read a Book” Summary & Infographics; “How to Take Smart Notes” Summary & Infographics
⚡️ THINK (Summarize + Synthesize): 10 Lessons ↓
Core Concepts: Thematic Thinking & Double Clicking; Summary & Synthesis; Spacing & Interleaving, Elaboration & Generation
How-Tos: Summarize; Public & Premium Summaries; Synthesize; Premium Syntheses
Brain Bonuses: “Make It Stick” Summary & Infographic
🚀 HATCH (Write + Create): 10 Lessons ↓
Core Concepts: Combinatorial Creativity; Imitation, Inception, Incubation, Immersion, & Interruption; Synthesis Monetization
How-Tos: Align Your Art Forms; Write & Design; Creating eBooks (Hierarchy of Happiness & Ikigai 2.0); Creating Digital Products (Mini Mind & Wise Walk)
Brain Bonuses: “Ikigai 2.0” eBook & Workbook
🌌 EVOLVE (Discuss + Develop): 10 Lessons ↓
Core Concepts: Dialectic, Dialogue, Discourse; Perspective Transformation; Horizontal & Vertical Development
How-Tos: Share & Handle Feedback; Evolve a Project/Product; Develop Your Self (Sloww & Sloww Stages)
Brain Bonuses: Ego Development Theory Self-Assessment; EDT & Sloww Stages Comparison
🧠 If you resonate with the SYNTHE System, check out the new Synthesizer course
