Molson Hart

I had the obvious realization that spending a few hours on how to learn better would pay for itself in a week or two and then would pay enormous dividends over the course of my whole life. So...how do I learn to learn?

I actually haven't given this subject much thought yet, so this is a bit free-form/twitter diarrhea. Let's start with how not to learn because that's easier: - No drugs and alcohol. They'll just wipe out your memories and capacity to learn - No distractions. Focus!

- Just play, no practice. - Avoid people better than you - Avoid books (Hmm...what type of books?) - Don't reflect on what went wrong in the past - Be overconfident - Never approach your limit (your muscles must learn to lift that weight!) - Don't seek criticism, stay silent.

- Don't make an effort to retain what you've learned (a story for every nugget of wisdom, the feynman method, spacing etc...) - Don't identify root causes Okay...forgive the scatteredness of this tweet-whatever. I didn't prewrite it.

So, now let's try to flip this on it's head and come up with some rules/tactics to learn: 1. Avoid drugs and alcohol 2. When you're trying to learn something avoid distractions i.e. music with words 3. You cannot just play, you have to practice.