The filter is the skill of self-directed learning. It is a meta skill that can be built, which then increase opportunities dramatically. When I see the jib "th

The filter is the skill of self-directed learning. It is a meta skill that can be built, which then increase opportunities dramatically. When I see the jib "they skipped a bunch of steps", it tells me that the person who received the advice needs to work on creating their personal learning system. Ideally, you feed your system a topic or idea, and it walks you through the exploration and work of understanding and applying that knowledge. It's not necessarily a piece of software. It can be a checklist, a journal, doodling on whitebords, blogging, whatever. Ultimately, all human knowledge is accessible through language. Whether that is true or not, if you act from that frame, there's nothing you can't learn with the right support and systems in place.