Learning

There’s no speed limit (sivers.org). Kimo’s high expectations set a new pace for me. He taught me that “the standard pace is for chumps” — that the system is designed so anyone can keep up. If you’re more driven than most people, you can do way more than anyone expects. And this principle applies to all of life, not just school.

Lifelong Learning: How to Continuously Learn and Grow by Mark Manson. It’s because of this acceleration of progress that I believe developing the ability to learn quickly and efficiently is more important today than ever before. When information becomes virtually infinite, then the advantages of learning and processing information in impactful ways grow exponentially…This ability to learn quickly and self-sufficiently has a compounding effect as well, driving an even greater division in results. The more you learn now, the better you will be able to learn and process new experiences in the future. Therefore, if you develop the ability to learn well—that is, if you learn how to learn—you have more opportunities than ever before to accrue huge, compounding results.

Always Invest In Your Education by Darius Foroux. Education is an investment in yourself. One that can pay you more dividends than anything you will ever invest in.

Why Successful People Always Stay A Student by Darius Foroux. So about two years ago, I finally asked him: “Why do you always ask everyone for their opinion and advice? You’re so successful.” He said: “I don’t know who said it, he must be a smart man, but it goes something like this: The secret of a successful man is that he always sees himself as a student who learns from other people.”

The Feynman Technique: The Best Way to Learn Anything (Farnam Street). There are four steps to the Feynman Learning Technique:

1. Choose a concept you want to learn about
2. Pretend you are teaching it to a student in grade 6
3. Identify gaps in your explanation;  Go back to the source material, to better understand it.
4. Review and simplify (optional)

The Hard Thing About Learning Hard Things (freecodecamp.org). So how do you learn something no one can teach you? How do you become a world-class expert on something few people understand? Unstructured learning requires wandering. You must poke around on your own, use trial and error, search, explore, stumble, and discover.

Better Ways to Learn (NY Times). He argues that although a good grade may be achieved in the short term by cramming for an exam, chances are that most of the information will be quickly lost. Indeed, he argues, most students probably don’t need to study more — just smarter.

How to Remember What You Read (Farnam Street). Why is it that some people seem to be able to read a book once and remember every detail of it for life, while others struggle to recall even the title a few days after putting down a book? The answer is simple but not easy. It’s not what they read. It’s how they read. Good reading habits not only help you read more but help you read better.

How To Retain More From The Books You Read In 5 Simple Steps by Darius Foroux. It’s not about how many books you read, it’s about how much you retain from what you read.

7 Ways to Retain More of Every Book You Read by James Clear. Of course, this is only true if you internalize and remember insights from the books you read. Knowledge will only compound if it is retained. In other words, what matters is not simply reading more books, but getting more out of each book you read.

How to remember what you read: What to do before, during, and after reading anything (rescuetime.com). If you want to remember what you read you need to be specific and intentional.

How to Read More: The Simple System I’m Using to Read 30+ Books Per Year by James Clear. Buffett estimates that 80 percent of his working hours are spent reading or thinking. It’s enough to make you ask, “Am I reading enough books?” When I asked myself that question recently, I realized that there were some simple reasons I wasn’t reading as much as I would like to, and I developed a reasonable system that is helping me read more than 30 books per year.

The only technique to learn something new (boingboing.net). In the past 20 years I’ve wanted to learn how to do some things really well. Writing, programming, business skills (leadership, sales, negotiating, decision-making), comedy, games. So I developed a ten step technique for learning.

How to improve your memory – Meta skills part 5 (80000hours.org). The faster you can master new knowledge, the better you’ll be able to do your job and have more impact. But what’s the best way of learning? The most promising method is spaced repetition – flashcards done well.

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