What I've learned about learning
Almost everything I’ve learned, I didn’t learn in school TRU
This is where the real learning happens — when the fingers start moving,
the feet start dancing, not when you hear or read something.
Fascination is the key to learning.
Here’s how to learn:
1.
Get fascinated. If you can’t get fascinated, you won’t
care enough to really learn something. You’ll just go through the
motions. How do you get fascinated? Often doing something with or for
other people helps to motivate me to look more deeply into something,
and reading about other people who have been successful/legendary at it
also fascinates me.
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2.
Pour yourself into it. There are always an amazing amount of online resources to learn anything. If there isn’t, create one.
UŻYWAM, CHOLERNIE CZASOCHŁONNE
3.
Do it, in small steps. Start with small, non-scary steps, with as little risk as possible, focusing on fun, easy skills. You can learn as much Spanish vocabulary as you like, but until you start having conversations, you won’t really know it. FRANCUSKI- MALUSIE KROCZKI
4.
Play. Learning isn’t work. It’s fun. If you’re learning
because you think you should, not because you’re having fun with it,
you will not really stick with it for long, or you’ll hate it and not
care about it. So make it play. Make games out of it. Sing and dance
while you do it. Show off your new skills to people, with a smile on
your face. TRZA POSZUKAĆ
5.
Do it with others. That motivates me to learn, because I want to do well when I do it with others.
6.
Feel free to move around. I will dive into something
for a couple weeks, and then move on to something else. That’s OK.
That’s how passion for a topic often works. Sometimes it will last for a
long time, sometimes it’s a short intense burst.
Allow yourself to wander if that’s where things lead you.
7. But deep learning takes months or years. You can learn a
lot about something in 2-4 weeks, but you really become an expert at
something only after months and years of doing it.ou can’t control it.
8.
Test yourself. You can learn a lot of information
quickly by studying something, testing yourself, studying again to fill
in the holes in your knowledge, testing again, and repeating until you
have it by heart. That’s not always the most fun way to learn, but it
can work well. Alternatively, you can learn by
playing, and when you
play, allow that to be your test.
9.
Disagree. Don’t just agree that everything you’re
reading or hearing from others on a topic is correct, even if they are
foremost experts.
10.
Teach it. There is no better way to cement your
knowledge than to teach it to others. It’s OK if you don’t really know
it that well — as long as you’re honest about that when you’re teaching
it to someone. For example, I’m a beginner at chess, but I will learn
something about it and teach it to my kids — they know I’m not a
tournament contender, let alone a master, and yet I’m still teaching
them something they don’t know.
11.
Reflect on your learning by blogging. Blogging is a great tool for reflection and sharing what you’ve learned,
even if you don’t hope to make a living at it. And it’s free.
