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Get Better at the Things You Do Every Day
Learning is not the same as studying
You might not study at all. However, learning underpins your life.
In relationships, you need to understand your partner and know how to communicate. At work, you profit from being good at rare and valuable skills. Health involves learning what to eat and when to exercise.
Given that learning is essential, it helps to understand how it works.
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Habits or Skills
Decide whether what you're trying to improve is mostly a habit or mostly a skill: if your main problem is with doing something you already know how to do, but doing it consistently, that’s pro...
Improving a habit
This process has 3 main parts:
- Define the habit you want to form clearly and consistently;
- Condition it until it is relatively easy to maintain.
- Maintain the habit by monitoring it. If you slip, push to reassert the habit quickly.
Improving skills
The best strategy for getting better at skills is deliberate practice. A good way to work on this is to divide it into 3:
- Practice the skill.
- Get timely feedback on how well you’re performing.
- Focus on your weak points with selective drills and constrained practice.
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Living the 80/20 Life
The 80/20 rule, also known as the Pareto principle, states that we need to focus on the few things that get us the most benefit.
For a lot of events, approximately 80% of the effects c...
The Power of Choice
Having the ability to choose is a power. It allows you to make deliberate choices. It allows us to go where we want to go. and most especially, it prevents us to be controlled by what other people want.
Less is More
Distinguishes the vital few from the trivial many and eliminate the nonessential.
When you are doing too much at a time, you are constantly switching from one task to another, constantly interrupted, constantly distracted. Do less, clear away distractions, single-task, and get more done.
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The struggle to learn new things
We tend to learn only the things we were already good at. This creates little bubbles of confidence where we learn, and vast areas we avoid because we’re not sure we can get good at them.
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Begin with the use in mind
The first step to learning well is always to ask yourself “why am I learning this?”, because the most effective way to learn is highly dependent on the eventual situation when you will use that information.
Understand before memorizing
Learning, is much faster when you work with precision over brute force. You’ll remember much more if, instead of trying to memorize, you first seek to understand. Once you “get” something, the act of memorizing it becomes much, much faster.