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This is not good advice, it's just an attempt to cash in on Amazon affiliate links. If you have someone who needs to learn how to quickly, you don't teach them
by awillen 6y ago
This is not good advice, it's just an attempt to cash in on Amazon affiliate links.
If you have someone who needs to learn how to quickly, you don't teach them theory, like the different kinds of heat transfer (which this says you should learn, and then names them, and then does not teach you about them). You teach them how to make some basic, healthy things that work with a bunch of ingredients.
It's really easy to teach someone to make a stir fry or a one-dish oven-baked dinner, and those are great starting points because you can use a lot of different ingredients with those techniques. Once you can manage those, you'll be able to make yourself a quick, easy, cheap and healthy dinner. You can read books about theory and heat transfer methods after that.
- tylertringas 6y ago>If you have someone who needs to learn how to quickly, you don't teach them theory Elon would disagree: "One bit of advice: it is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree — make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to." https://lifehacker.com/elon-musk-on-learning-new-things-view-knowledge-as-a-t-1677850415 https://lifehacker.com/elon-musk-on-learning-new-things-view...
- classified 6y agoYou’re overthinking it.
- awillen 6y agoElon is talking about literal rocket science, not making a stir fry.
- tylertringas 6y agoActually the question was about broadly how to learn things quickly.
- maxwindiff 6y agoYeah. When I started cooking I read a bunch of articles on theory of cooking, what utensils to use etc, but in the end I realized they are all counterproductive. The first few attempts at cooking are bound to fail, and spending hours and hours on preparation and decision paralysis makes the failures much more disheartening. It's much better to stick to a few simple recipes and just do what they say without questioning why. The analysis / innovation can come later.