Summary of the whole article: The habit: Going down a rabbit hole for every unfamiliar concept (or any concept you choose, really) will lead you to learn a ton and have a lot of fun. This will make you remember the initial concept waaaay better, with more detail/meaning, and you ll learn more than just that [ ] The post A habit to make learning MUCH more fun and effective appeared first on Learn…
Having a detailed understanding of how your mind works will tremendously help you improve your life and the lives of people around you. You ll make your mind a much better place to live, and you ll be able to help others do the same. Summary Basically, if you practice being a mechanic for your own mind, [ ] The post How/why to get good at debugging your mind appeared first on Learn How To Learn .
The whole idea: compress the concept by repeatedly practicing explaining it until you understand it from first principles 1) Try to explain the concept as best as you can (ideally out loud, as this is much more effective). Pretend you re having an imaginary conversation where you are explaining the concept to someone else. 2) While [ ] The post How to understand/retain complex concepts 10x better…
For long-term learning endeavors (chess, BJJ, etc) you re going to encounter plateaus. These can stall progress by weeks or even years. A great way to break through plateaus is to improve fundamentals. Either improve ones you suck at, or find new ones you re not aware of and get good at them. This article focuses on [ ] The post How to Overcome Plateaus appeared first on Learn How To Learn .
The most valuable kind of knowledge is the type you get from experience. So how do you get a ton of it? Touch grass. (do new stuff)Not just some.As much as possible. Meaning: maximize doing new unfamiliar things. You ll get lots of new, useful, experience-based knowledge. The kind you get from years of experience. The [ ] The post How to MAX out d(knowledge)/dt appeared first on Learn How To Learn…
Do outline speedrunning : Recursively outline an MVP, speedrun filling it in, and only then go back and perfect. This is a ~10x speed up over the loading-bar style (more on that below) Don t just read this article and move on. Go out and do this for the very next thing you make so you can [ ] The post How to Build Anything Extremely Quickly appeared first on Learn How To Learn .
I went from a C student to an A engineering student while enjoying work more and having 100x more freedom TLDR (because I also hate digging through articles for the thing I clicked for): When I went to college I did extremely poorly sophomore year for numerous reasons, mostly being lazy and procrastinating. After immense [ ] The post How I Cured My Procrastination appeared first on Learn How To…
Learning how to learn has helped increase my learning ability tremendously. I m hoping to plant some seeds of learning how to learn so that people smarter than me can develop the study of LHTL into something that benefits the world immensely. If even 10% of the world had a moderate-growth-rate exponential/logistic learning function instead of.. [ ] The post Why Learn How To Learn? appeared first…