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Spartz: People focus on learning specific skills instead of meta-learning

Emerson Spartz · Unlock Your Super-Learning Potential: Learn from Emerson Spartz, Founder of Dose and MuggleNet · Feb 16, 2023 · at 0:57

Emerson Spartz discusses why mastering how to learn is more valuable than focusing on individual technical skills.

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“Basically I find it fascinating that people, people like they try to accumulate a specific skill and they're like, I'm going to develop this skill. I'm going to get good at like making a websites or I'm going to get good at this programming language or this, you know, speaking Spanish, whatever. And they don't go one meta level up, which is like, how do you become the best at learning all the skills and like learning how to learn basically?”

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