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1. Produce learning artefacts. Scribbles, notes, flash cards, mind-maps, drawings, projects, whatever. Don't let that overtake you or break your ingestion flow,
by synthmeat 8y ago
1. Produce learning artefacts. Scribbles, notes, flash cards, mind-maps, drawings, projects, whatever. Don't let that overtake you or break your ingestion flow, and don't worry about that being usable in the future. Act of structuring that information is the key here.
2. Avoid learning what you won't put in practice immediately after. This is also useful to cull effectively infinite space of what you may want to learn next.
3. Learn the basics. Do not worry about this being marketable skill or knowledge - it'll pay dividends later on. "Basics" is not quantum physics, it's whatever's layer below the layer you're comfortable with.
4. Keep using what you learned, even if it's a toy project. Don't worry about making it public or useful to others.
- larrydag 8y agoI can't stress how important 2. is to learning. I don't think I learned anything well unless I used what I learned in practice. Reciprocal don't add anything to your learning if you won't use it on a regular basis.
- convolvatron 8y agoi cant claim fantastic success, but I tend to flip this around. rather than say ' i want to learn to do x', i just start trying to do x and figure it out. obviously thats not very effective. but when I do start to read the canon, everything makes so much more sense. pleased at having extracted some useful hints I go back to screwing everything up, but a little better this time..and repeat. that means that i've wasted alot of time doing things the wrong way, but after that*, insight happens in a flash.