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Product comes after process

Focus on the process.

Thinking about the outcome of your learning is the quickest way to get discouraged about it. Because there is no end. Learning is a lifelong journey.

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Spaced repetition, a little every day

Spaced repetition involves practising something in small timeframes and as you get better at it, increasing the amount of time between each timeframe.

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Deliberate practice

Spend time and effort trying to create chunks. Instead of learning every intricate detail, seek out what the major concepts are. Figure out how to apply them by testing yourself. Work through example problems.

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Chunking

A chunk is formed by first grasping an understanding of a major concept and then figuring out where to use it.

Ask: What are the important concepts to learn? Then, where should you apply them?

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The Habit Zombie

To make a good habit, 
  • create a cue
  • make a routine around it
  • give yourself a reward if you follow through and 
  • you’ll start forming a belief about you being the type of person who has the good habit.

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Recall

Bring the information you’ve just learned back to your mind without looking back at it.

Rereading the same thing over and over again can give you an illusion of understanding it. But recalling it and reproducing the information in your own words is a way to figure out which pa...

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Unlocking your potential

Learning doesn’t happen in a straight line. Learning looks more like a broken staircase than a straight line.

Learning tough skills doesn’t happen over the course of days or weeks or months. Years is the right timeframe for most things.

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Learning is the ultimate meta-skill

... as it can be applied to any other skill. So if you want to improve your ability to do anything, learning how to learn is something you should dedicate time to.

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Everyone has to start somewhere

The first year you learn something new you might not be very good. The second year you might be worse because you realise how much you don’t know.

There’s no need to envy those who seem to know what they’re doing. Every genius starts somewhere.

Even Charles Darwin was a college dro...

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Procrastination and how to combat it

Procrastination usually happens when you reach a difficult point and find it uncomfortable to keep going.

The Pomodoro technique is effective in combatting this. This is where you work for 25 minutes, then take a break for 5 minutes.

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Free up your working memory

Create a to do list the night before, including the time of day you’ll call it quits.

Putting things down means they’re out of your head and you can devote all of your brainpower to focused thinking rather than worrying about what it was you had to do later.

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Don’t be held back by old thoughts

The danger of becoming an expert in something is losing the ability to think like an amateur. You get so good at the way that’s always worked, you become blind to the new.

Have an open mind and don’t be afraid of asking the stupid questions.

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What learning is

 There are two kinds of thinking, focused and diffused.

Focused thinking involves working on a singular task. 

Diffused thinking happens when you’re not focused on anything.

Learning happens at the crossover of these two kinds of thinking.

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Sleep your way to better learning

Sleep is perhaps the best way to engage unconscious diffused thinking.

Being in focused mode is to brain cells what lifting weights is to muscles. You’re breaking them down.

Sleep provides an opportunity for them to repaired and for new connections to be formed.

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Focus on the process

It is better to focus on the process rather than the outcome. When you focus on the outcome, you slow your growth.

Commit to consistent practice. Focus on the process of getting better every single day. 

Process over Product

When facing procrastination, think of the process over the product.

Instead of thinking that you have to get X done, rather think to spend an hour on X. It is then not overwhelming, and doesn't require a long breakdown of tasks.

Trusting the process

Trusting the process

Just following a process isn’t enough. If you don’t know your goal and what it’s going to take to get there, no amount of focus on the process is going to be enough.

You need context, measurement, and engagement to truly move the needle on your personal growth and effectiveness.

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