learning

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

“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…”

“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.”

“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…”

“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…”

“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…”

“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 …”