Create Directed Learning

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Directness is the principle that we only become better at the exact activity that we perform, within the context in which we perform it. Utilise this when attempting to gain a new skill or improve an existing one.

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• Learning results in a relatively small scope of expertise
  • Those who study writing in a foreign language will become far, far better at writing than they will at speaking
• Humans are really poor at transferring skills across contexts: they operate effectively only within the small contextual field within which they originally learned the skill
  • A startup entrepreneur won't apply elementary-level algebra even though they have mastery of it, because business and school present different contexts

Use Proceduralised Learning

<aside> 🎓 Humans recall procedural memories (those associated with processes) better than they do explicit/declarative memories (those associated with facts). When learning, expertise often creates a shift from explicit to procedural memories (moving from thinking about each letter to thinking about each word)

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Set Goals before Looking at Resources

<aside> 🎓 By setting a #purpose before looking at anything, you direct your focus towards useful information.

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• This means that, when reading a book, you should have the lens of your focus clearly in mind
• It also means that, when pursuing an idea, you should outline what is required before looking at any books/resources