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How to Learn a Subject

How to Learn a Subject How to Learn a Subject

Based on this knowledge when you want to learn something and learn it deep you should do the following:

  1. Pick the subject
  2. Get a cursory understanding of the subject
  3. Books
  4. Podcasts
  5. YouTube
  6. Message Famous People and Talk to Them
  7. Pick the next layers. Ask a series of questions that you want to answer from the previous layer. This could be the 2-4 topics that interest you about that subject but mostly I’d say use Pareto’s Principle and pick the 20% that will give 80% of the benefit right away.
  8. Learn each layer by books, media, papers, etc. but have specific deadlines for each since knowledge builds on existing knowledge it may be readily forgotten if the existing knowledge isn’t reaccessed.
  9. Break each thing into individual chunks. If you are learning a new movement example for Krav Maga move to individual pieces: the feet, hips, hands, the movement of the hips, the movement of the legs, where you are on the floor and where you should be. I learn systems for how they fit together.
  10. Note the Following:
  11. Fears (i.e Like the Fear of Formulas)
  12. Need to do this because certain aspect of learning is expanding your comfort level and to do that you need to understand that you may get overwhelmed and have to note the fear of the unknown so that you can work through it.
  13. Mental Models of Similar / Adjacent Subjects
  14. Practice with b in mind.
  15. Apply the new knowledge immediately to a small project. Make it immediately usable and test this with your own hypothesis.
  16. This helps you solidify your understanding
  17. Take what you learned and what you applied and systematize it. Since you applied the learning you have made it your own and that much more influential to yourself.
  18. Write it down as a checklist
  19. Create programs that execute what you learn
  20. Goto 3 – Remember what layer you are in when reading or learning something. If you read a book similar to what someone has already written then you are not going to learn anything.
– Most business books all have similar topics and cover an aspect but think layers. Example of how something could be broken down: