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The importance of practice and repetition in learning
How to stay motivated and avoid burnout while learning
How to break down complex concepts into manageable parts
Lessons
- The more something threatens your identity, the more you will avoid it.
- I say don't find yourself. I say never know who you are. Because that's what keeps you striving and discovering. And it forces you to remain humble in your judgments and accepting of the difference in others.
- Letting go is so liberating.
- Define yourself in the simplest and the most ordinary ways possible.
- Improvement at anything is based on thousands of tiny failures, and the magnitude of your success is based on how many times you have failed at something.
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- We can be truly successful only at something we’re willing to fail at.
- Just as one must suffer physical pain to build stronger bone and muscle , one must suffer emotional pain to develop greater emotional resilience, a stronger sense of self , increased compassion, and a generally h...
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Lessons
- The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience.
- When you care less about something, you do better at it.
- Avoidance of the suffering is a form of sufferin...
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Lessons
- Instead of looking to be right all the time, we should be looking for how we’re wrong all the time.
- Being wrong opens up to the possibility for change.
- Our brain is a meaning machine.
- Meaning is generated by the associations our brain makes between two or more expe...
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Lessons 2
- Pain is what teaches us what to pay attention when we are careless or young.
- Life is essentially an endless series of problems.
- Solution to one problem is merely the creation of the next one.
- Happiness comes from solving problem.
- Nobody who is actually hap...
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Lessons 3
- Our values determine the metrics by which we measure ourselves and everyone else.
- If you want to change how you see the problems, you have to change what you value and how you measure failure and success.
- Emotions are just feedbacks.
- Better values -> better f*ck ->...
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Lessons
- “ With great power comes great responsibility “ :- uncle ben, aunt may.
- We are responsible for experience that aren’t our fault all the time.
- Fault is past tense and responsibility is present tense.
- To simple blame others is only to hurt yourself.
- These are...
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Lessons 8
- “ Do something “ principle:- if you lack the motivation to make an important change in your life, do something- anything, really-and then harness the reaction to that action as a way to begin motivating yourself.
- Absolute freedom, by itself, means nothing.
- To value X, we mu...
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Lessons
- Commitment gives you freedom because you are no longer distracted by the unimportant and frivolous.
- Depth is where the gold is buried.
- Death is the only thing we can know with any certainty.
- Happiness comes from the same thing ; caring about something greater than ...
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