“Just because improvements aren’t visible doesn’t mean they aren’t happening.You’re not going to see the number change each time you step on the scale. You’re not going to finish a chapter each time you sit down to write.Early wins come easy. Lasting wins require a lifestyle.”

“One of the most valuable skills in life is being able to see another person’s perspective.If you’re going to someone’s house, think about how it might feel to be the host. If you’re creating a product, spend as much time as possible thinking like the customer. If you’re calling customer service, think about how it might feel to be on the other end of the conversation.The more clearly you understand the viewpoint of your spouse or customer or coworker, the better positioned you are to find a solution.”

“Live the Pareto Principle lifestyle:Relationships. Who are the few people that have the most positive impact on my life? Spend more time with them.Priorities. What are the few actions that have the most positive impact on my day? Prioritize them.Learning. What are the few information sources I learn the most from? Focus on them.Stress. What are the few sources that cause most of the stress and friction in my life? Eliminate them."

“You’re never ready for what you have to do. You just do it. That makes you ready.”

“The most appealing daily schedule I know is that of a turn-of-the-century Danish aristocrat. He got up at four and set out on foot to hunt black grouse, wood grouse, woodcock, and snipe. ....“Take a quick dip, relax with a schnapps and a sandwich, stretch out, have a smoke, take a nap or just rest, and then sit around and chat until three. Then I hunt some more until sundown, bathe again, put on a white tie and tails to keep up appearances, eat a huge dinner, smoke a cigar and sleep like a log until the sun comes up again to redden the eastern sky. This is living … Could it be more perfect?”

What are the current habits that are hindering your future progress?

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<ol><li>Your life isn’t a one-act play.</li><li>You’re never too smart to be confused.</li><li>Gravitate toward work that solves an important problem.</li><li>Don’t underestimate the power of friendship.</li><li>You’re not a slacker if you cut yourself some slack.</li></ol>

The Five Things

What you do tomorrow—or for the next ten years—does not have to be what you do forever.

I thought I knew everything I needed to know when I left college. But the first step to learning something new is embracing what you don’t know, instead of focusing on what you do know.

At some point in your career, you will find yourself facing a problem you cannot solve on your own. When that happens, don’t panic. Take a breath. Force yourself to think things through. And then find smart people to learn from.

Just about everything I have accomplished came because I sought out others who knew more. People want to help you. The key is to not be afraid to ask.

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5 things I wish I heard at the graduation I never had : Bill Gates

Straight-A is easily the best of Cal’s student-oriented trilogy. Cal derived the content and strategies he recommends from his interviews with relaxed, high-achieving students. He offers concrete, practical advice for getting through college without burning out.

1.  How to Become a Straight-A Student  by Cal Newport

In A Mind for Numbers , Oakley shares how to tackle difficult quantitative subjects—even if you’ve struggled with math in the past. Oakley speaks from experience, having gone from a self-described “language person” to getting a PhD in engineering.

2.  A Mind for Numbers  by Barbara Oakley

This book is an engaging tour through the science of learning led by one of the world’s leading cognitive neuroscientists. Dehaene elegantly links research on how we learn to the science of how the brain works.

3.  How We Learn  by Stanislas Dehaene

This book argues for the importance of background knowledge, the crucial role attention plays in memory, and how cognition changes as we become more proficient.

4.  Why Don’t Students Like School?  by Daniel Willingham

Retrieval practice, spacing, interleaving and other interventions improve learning, but—and this is key—we tend to be unaware of it. There is value in understanding and deploying these studying strategies precisely because they defy our intuitions.

5.  Make it Stick  by Peter Brown, Henry Roediger and Mark McDaniel

While Ashman’s advice—that teachers should fully and thoroughly teach their subjects—don’t sound surprising, it’s an important message because of the alternative theories it rejects. This book is a must-read if you’ve ever struggled with teaching or learning.

6.  The Power of Explicit Teaching and Direct Instruction  by Greg Ashman

In this book, Ericsson works to set the record straight, arguing both for what deliberate practice is and what it isn’t. Ericsson argues that much of the prowess we see in elite performers is due to huge quantities of this specific kind of practice rather than talent alone.

7.  Peak  by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool

Gray’s book is a highly-readable summary that highlights some interesting research on how we might learn motor skills better.⠀

8.  How We Learn to Move  by Rob Gray

Ahrens’s book is a helpful guide to zettelkasten as it’s a bit more nitty-gritty in the implementation details. If you want to know how to organize the things you learn, this book is a great place to start.

9.  How to Take Smart Notes  by Sönke Ahrens

Joshua Foer dives into the strange world of super-memorizers. Using mnemonic systems, these people can memorize decks of cards, random digits or entire poems perfectly in around the same time it takes you or I to read them.

10.  Moonwalking with Einstein  by Joshua Foer

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“Buying your kids the best will never replace giving your kids your best.”

“The best way to change the world is in concentric circles: start with yourself and work your way out from there.”

“Be excited for people when they succeed.When a friend or family member reaches an important milestone like getting a promotion or making their first sale or scoring acceptance into their desired program, celebrate it. Buy them a drink. Send them a card. Tell them you’re proud to know them.Being thrilled on someone’s behalf is a lovely way to be. Winning is better when shared.”

“Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.”

“I grow little of the food I eat, and of the little I do grow I did not breed or perfect the seeds.I do not make any of my own clothing.I speak a language I did not invent or refine.I did not discover the mathematics I use....... I am moved by music I did not create myself.When I needed medical attention, I was helpless to help myself survive.I did not invent the transistor, the microprocessor, object oriented programming, or most of the technology I work with.I love and admire my species, living and dead, and am totally dependent on them for my life and well being.”

If I do nothing, what will happen? If I act right now, what will happen? Sometimes you need to let go. Sometimes you need to get going.

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The Book is a FilmThat Takes PlaceIn the Mind Of The Reader”

“Books And Movies areLike Apples And OrangesThey Both Are Fruit,But Taste CompletelyDifferent”

“When You’re Making a MovieOf a Book, People are alwaysWaiting With Their Knives”

These quote seamlessly convey the difference in making of a book to a movie. 

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<ul><li>By far, the most common use readers reported was using an LLM as a personal tutor.</li><li>Asking ChatGPT to explain tricky concepts, unfamiliar code or problems seems like an area where LLMs might do alright. </li><li>Challenge explanations that don’t jive with what you’ve read in the book rather than taking everything the AI says at face value.</li></ul>

1. Create your own Socratic tutor.

The next most common way people used LLMs to learn better was as a language tutor. This seems like a task LLMs are well-equipped for. Whatever their other flaws, they can produce grammatically correct text.

2. Practice chatting in new languages.

Summaries are another area where LLMs seem to excel. Good summaries, especially those fine-tuned to your particular needs, might be a good way of navigating the large information loads we often face in knowledge work.

3. Generate summaries of longer texts.

LLMs also can help you “ask questions” of longer texts. For instance, when reading a scientific paper you could quickly query the sample size or ask for the methodology or results.

4. Dialog with long documents.

<ul><li>A major difficulty in following expert thinking is that most expert-level text is written for other experts. </li></ul>Concepts are unexplained, context is lacking and jargon abounds. This means that most people must rely on translators, such as general-market nonfiction or science writers, who present what experts think in a more readable format.

5. Rewrite texts at different levels of explanatory depth.

Many readers found benefits in using LLMs to figure out jargon and terms used within a particular community in a way that dictionary definitions often fail to elucidate.

6. Clear up unfamiliar jargon.

The author doesn't seem to be sure to use LLM's here for making study plan if you are already an expert or have enough experience.He suggests that ChatGTP might be useful when you are going to learn a completely new subject and when you no idea of how to break the curriculum.

7. Create study plans and agendas.

The place LLMs seem to work really well is at the fringes of a programmer’s expertise. Many programmers said that they found AI helpful in getting starting hints in unfamiliar languages or tools. Their base of programming experience allowed them to make sense of and implement the output, but their unfamiliarity with the underlying language meant the AI saved them a lot of time.

8. Provide refreshers on forgotten or infrequently used tools.

Flashcards are a powerful learning tool. They’re also a pain in the butt to make.Nonetheless, making flashcards is tedious, so getting a first draft that later review might speed up the process considerably. The risks seem relatively limited if you confirm the cards’ correctness before putting them in your deck.

9. Generate flashcards based on text. (Tentative)

Searching via keywords is fraught because sometimes you can’t remember the exact term you used, even if the meaning is roughly the same.Personalized LLMs that live on your hard drive and access your existing data may be a valuable application.

10. Use it to organize your notes. (Advanced)

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10 Ways You Can Use ChatGPT to Learn Better - Scott H Young

“Sometimes all you need for exceptional results is average effort repeated for an above-average amount of time.”

“Make your habits fun.This doesn’t mean each habit will be the most fun thing in your life, but nearly any habit can be made more fun than it is currently. Ask yourself, “What would it look like if this was fun? What would it look like if meditation or exercise or writing—or whatever—was fun?Find the most enjoyable version of each habit you do.”

“10 years or 1 hour. Those are the two time frames worth prioritizing.10 years is shorthand for thinking longer-term than nearly everyone else and doing things that are really ambitious or meaningful. How do you work toward the 10-year things? In 1 hour increments. The key is that you finish with something accomplished, not with half-work still waiting to be completed.If you spend 1 hour working toward a 10-year project—and you repeat this day after day—you’re going to end up living a lovely life.”

“An hour before 9 is worth 2 after 5.”

“The best parties are a wild mixture. Take some corporation presidents, add a bearded painter, a professional jockey, your visiting friends from Brussels, a politician, a hairdresser, and a professor of physics, toss them all together, and try to get them to stop talking long enough to eat!It’s especially important to have all age groups. I’ve never noticed any generation gap. All the younger people I know are bright and attractive and have something to say and they dress like human beings. They love to listen, too. They make wonderful guests.”

What’s the one action that moves the needle more than 100 other actions? What’s the one choice that renders 1000 other choices irrelevant? Most things are not worth optimizing. Master the big moves and move quickly and peacefully through the other stuff.

3-2-1: Making your habits fun, how to host a good party, and tips for prioritizing

“It’s hard to grow beyond something if you won’t let go of it.”

“Broaden your interests. It’s nice to have at least one surprising hobby or passion. People find it interesting. In many ways, the part of you that is least expected is more respected.”

“Talent is rarely enough to assure victory and bad luck is rarely enough to guarantee defeat.Do they influence the outcome? Of course. But your response will always sway the final tally.”

“Know how to leave things alone, for if knowing how to refuse is one of life’s great lessons, an even greater one is knowing how to say no to yourself, to important people, and in business. There are non-essential activities, moths of precious time, and it’s worse to take an interest in irrelevant things than to do nothing at all.”

“People don’t need enormous cars; they need admiration and respect. They don’t need a constant stream of new clothes; they need to feel that others consider them to be attractive, and they need excitement and variety and beauty. People don’t need electronic entertainment; they need something interesting to occupy their minds and emotions. And so forth.

..Trying to fill real but nonmaterial needs—for identity, community, self-esteem, challenge, love, joy—with material things is to set up an unquenchable appetite for false solutions to never-satisfied longings. A society that allows itself to admit and articulate its nonmaterial human needs, and to find nonmaterial ways to satisfy them, world require much lower material and energy throughputs and would provide much higher levels of human fulfillment.”

When you’re living a good day, what is one habit that tends to be part of that day? Can you find time for that habit today?

3-2-1: The value of leaving things alone, nonmaterial needs, and broadening your interests

Something the author heard recently and he have tried to adopt whenever possible:“Whoever has the most fun, wins.”

“Water never complains, but always pushes back. Always.Drop a boulder in front of a stream and the water will simply flow around it, taking whatever opening the landscape will give or—when nothing is offered—patiently building up its resources until it rises to a height where a new gap is found.Flow like water. Never complain, but always push back.”

“Time assets vs. Time debts.Time assets are choices that save you time in the future. Think: saying no to a meeting, automating a task, working on something that persists and compounds.Time debts are choices that must be repaid and cost you time in the future. Think: saying yes to a meeting, doing sloppy work that will need to be revised, etc.Time assets are an investment. Time debts are an expense.”

“We learn nothing by being right.”

“Change is not a bolt of lightning that arrives with a zap. It is a bridge built brick by brick, every day, with sweat and humility and slips. It is hard work, and slow work, but it can be thrilling to watch it take shape.”

Apply the Pareto Principle to your relationships. Who are the few people that deliver the majority of happiness in your life? Can you schedule time with one of them today?

3-2-1: Time assets vs. Time debts, slow change, and the importance of failure

<ol><li>How do we perform skills? </li><li>How do we acquire them? </li><li>What sorts of skills are used in real life? </li> </ol>

Three Questions 

Essentially, transfer is a product of overlap. We should expect transfer from one skill to another when something in those two skills is essentially the same.<ul><li>Broad mental faculties. In <a href="https://dictionary.apa.org/formal-discipline">this framework </a>, “reasoning” or “memory” overlap across different skills.</li><li>Stimulus-response. This view would suggest transfer is extraordinarily limited—every superficial change in a situation would require a new skill.</li><li>Propositions and productions. Theories like <a href="https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2022/02/15/act-r/">ACT-R </a>argue that our brains store skills in essentially two forms: small chunks of factual knowledge and simple component procedures</li></ul>

Question One: How Do We Perform Skills?

<ul><li>Schemas : Schema-based theories claim that knowledge is organized in patterns larger than individual actions or chunks. </li><li>Neural networks: Teasing out implications for transfer is harder here, but it would most likely look like an overlap in the synaptic connectivity between two skills.</li><li>Activity systems In this view, the person relies on their environment to perform a skill, and transfer fails when those environmental supports are altered.</li></ul>

Transfer Theories

<ul><li>From this perspective, what seems safe to say is that skills can only reliably influence each other if they overlap in either their procedures or knowledge. </li><li>If two skills don’t use the same process, and the knowledge they depend on is different, there shouldn’t be much (if any) transfer.</li></ul>

Skill Transfer Requisite 

There’s also the issue of how we acquire these representations.<ul><li>Expert-novice differences. Experts appear to represent ideas at a <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220480253_Categorization_and_Representation_of_Physics_Problems_by_Experts_and_Novices">deeper level than novices </a>. </li><li>Automaticity effects . Skills tend to recede from conscious awareness with experience. </li><li>Declarative-to-procedural transitions. . This transformation implies that skills may have different patterns of transfer at different levels of mastery as their dominant mental representation changes.</li><li>Cognitive load. Studying an example, for instance, is better than solving a problem when cognitive load is high, but the opposite is true when itis low. </li></ul>

Question Two: How Do We Acquire Skills?

<ul><li>Don’t judge transfer potential by the abilities of novices. </li><li>Don’t judge transfer on one-shot problem-solving tests. </li><li>Don’t trust experts’ perceptions of how they do a task. Experts are <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Strangers-Ourselves-Discovering-Adaptive-Unconscious/dp/0674013824">bad at introspecting </a>their cognitive procedures. We tend to underrate knowledge we’ve already acquired, seeing it as obvious. </li></ul>

Pitfalls To Avoid

<ul><li>Critics allege that much of what we learn in school has little real-world application.</li><li>John Anderson <a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Learning-Memory-Integrated-John-Anderson/dp/0471249254">reports </a>that employers either want very basic skills or highly specific skills that no universal curriculum could aspire to. </li><li>Peter Cappelli <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Why-Good-People-Cant-Jobs/dp/B00FJUFFD8/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=Smadj&content-id=amzn1.sym.22f5776b-4878-4918-9222-7bb79ff649f4&pf_rd_p=22f5776b-4878-4918-9222-7bb79ff649f4&pf_rd_r=138-5005353-2745032&pd_rd_wg=vgzAZ&pd_rd_r=36883576-42ee-403e-89ee-0ccca61e0046&ref_=aufs_ap_sc_dsk">argues </a>that surveys show employers tend not to highly value academic skills.</li></ul>

Question Three: How are Skills Used in Real Life?

If you take one thing from this article, it should be that transfer is complicated.<ul><li>Transfer should be minimal between unrelated skills.</li><li>Transfer between related subjects depends on how much they overlap in content and procedures. </li><li>Academic subjects can transfer to real life, but this transfer can fail because:</li><li class="ql-indent-1">We are missing components of the skill for applying it. </li><li class="ql-indent-1">We haven’t automated the skill enough to pass the cost-benefit threshold.</li><li class="ql-indent-1">We can’t actually perform the skill with only our academic ability.</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Many academic skills are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inert_knowledge">inert </a>. </li></ul>

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