Learning

“And if you start with the position that I am already wrong, I don't know everything. I'm getting something that I believe right now is off, but I'm trying to become less wrong. Then you're more in a position where you're trying to learn and less in a position …”

“So I think when you're in your twenties, you're in your learning phase. You still want to try to increase your earnings, but if I had to choose between earning more or learning in that period, I'd optimize for learning because learning has unlimited upside pot…”

“It takes effort, but it's effortful, but it's also kind of fun. And you also have a payoff of like, You feel good about yourself in various ways, right? And I think education is basically equivalent to that. So that's what I mean when I say education should no…”

“I don't think, people don't pay anything for learning. They just want learning to be free anyway. So I think it's another thing that's totally commoditizing... No one's going to pay for it. And all these models are going to like, do it anyway.”

“Learning is not memorizing information. Learning is changing behavior.”

“The secret to learning anything is this. Anything. I'm glad you asked that question. Rehearsing. If you want to get good at football, play football. If you want to get good at playing the guitar, play the guitar. If you want to get good at chess, you've got to…”

“Try the sample questions at the end of the chapter before you read the chapter. Now, because what that does is it primes you. Now, now all of a sudden, whoa, how would I, there's no way I can answer those questions. Let's, now you're primed as you read the cha…”

“For real learning to happen in that kind of a setting is simply not possible. Yes, you do pick up other skills, and you pick up social skills, and so on. You form friendships, and I think that part is also important. But learning is not happening. Learning won…”

“Also, the other thing is that the most of the learning we thought that happens during teacher to student interaction, but it's not the case. The real learning happens once a student is putting his brains in isolation to a problem.”

“Reflection is the number one Most important step in learning. It is the bridge between consuming content and applying content in your life. If you want to form new ideas, if you want to form new points of view, you have to give yourself the time and space to r…”

“The key to learning any skill, really, if there's anything I said today, like, that was super important, the key to learning any skill, rehearse it. Break it down into sub-skills, and the rehearse Each of those skills.”

“You need the pain in order for it to matter to you so that you'll learn, but the pain actually gets in the way of learning, and why is that? Because when you're losing, it just lights your limbic system up.”

“Now, what you've done there is you've socialized the result to the world. You've offloaded responsibility for this bad outcome to the world. Now, in the short run, that feels good. Because you don't need to do any kind of, like, identity update. You don't need…”

“Your success rate in anything is higher as soon as you sort of forget about failing and focus on learning”