For one can only understand that which is in one's own experience.

– Atmamun

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I remember, involve me and I learn.

– Benjamin Franklin

Bildung ist nicht das Befüllen von Fässern, sondern das Entzünden von Flammen.

– Heraklit

Ich lerne vom Leben. Ich lerne solange ich lebe. So lerne ich noch heute.

– Otto von Bismark

"Lerning to learn" is the most important meta-skill you can have, because it's the skill that leads to every other skill. And just like how every investor knows that compunding interset is 'the greatest force in the univers', compunding knowledge works the same way. If you can get the best reurn on your knowledge, then you can convert that knowledge into monay, influence, imapact, whatever you want. So, learning to lern is the most important skill.

– Emerson Spartz on the Clearer Thinking Podcast

It is in this context that we set out to research how human beings learn. But collecting data on human learning based on children’s behavior in school is like collecting data on killer whales based on their behavior at Sea World.

Notes on person.person.person.person.justin-noppe masterclass about learning

Feyman-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)

Natural decision making (NDM)

Spiritually Autolysis

Autolysis is self-digestion. Spiritual autolysis is using the brain and reasoning to eliminate all ideas that are untrue or which can’t be proven to be true.

  1. Write something that you hold as absolutely true.
  2. Examine that statement, are you absolutely 100% sure this is true? If so, what makes you say this is true, what are the basic assumptions on which that true statement is based.
  3. Go back to step 1 using the basic assumptions discovered in step 2 as new material. Discard any idea or concept that is not absolutely true.
  4. Continue this process until you come to something that is true beyond a doubt. This can take months or years.

https://fs.blog/2012/04/feynman-technique/

Four useful forms of learning:

Deep: train to obtain narrow expertise that you'll apply for many years (e.g., if you're a programmer, read all of the best books on the topic, as recommended by the best programmers you know)

Efficient: learn the most valuable 1% of a topic to get large benefits for less effort (e.g., find YouTube videos of the world's top few experts on that topic giving talks to a lay audience)

Experimental: dabble to see if a topic is worth pursuing (e.g., ask questions of a friend who knows a lot about the topic)

Reusable: learn a widely applicable general skill (e.g., learn how to use Excel since that skill can be applied across many areas)

source https://mailchi.mp/cd8ed173ed40/weekly-insight-from-spencer-greenberg-5372933?e=8044fdf108

Follow your nose

from https://commoncog.com/blog/follow-your-nose/

But even if you aren’t a blogger, you can apply the same process to your life:

  1. Ask questions — things that you might have noticed in your job, or in your past, that just don’t add up. Keep them in your head.
  2. Look for answers — Google widely, read primary sources whenever possible, wait patiently when you’ve run out of leads. Because when you least expect it, you might run into things that set you on the right path.
  3. And then write it up — if not for yourself, then perhaps for others who might come after you. But mostly for yourself.

In other words: follow your nose, and trust that it might lead you to someplace interesting. In 2021, the odds are pretty good that it will.

From Make it Stick - P. Brown, M.McDaniel & H.Roediger III [Mind Map Book Summary]

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