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.

• 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.

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...

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...

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.

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.

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?

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.

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