Notes on Learning How to Learn

2020-05-13

notes

  • learn the first principle and basic firstly then to explore the most interested part you feel

    • 根据已经知道的，你有什么假设？ 马上可以行动起来的第一步是什么？
    • 具备一定基础知识后，投入到实践活动中，然后发现了问题进行调研学习

  • HOW

    • 阅读
      • Work out a first principles understanding of X
      • learn the first principle and basic firstly then to explore the most interested part** you feel

    • 问人/交流

      • See people who excel at X do it up close

    • 学习先进经验

    • 知识迁移
    • 写作（思考，复盘，总结）
    • 边干边学

  • There are 3 ways to build confidence in your ability to do X without actually having done X.

    • See people who excel at X do it up close.
    • Work out a first principles understanding of X.
    • Develop confidence in your capacity to learn anything, including X.

what to learn

Journey Mastery

Dealing with Change and Homeostasis

  • Getting energy for mastery

    • human energy comes into existence through use
    • maintain physical fitness

  • Accentuate the positive and acknowledge the negative

    • a positive attitude and positive feedback and praise

    • Once you've dealt with the negative, you're free to concentrate on the best in yourself

      • facing the truth and then moving on
      • describing what's wrong with your life to a good friend can make you feel better and more energetic
      • avoid teachers and supervisors who are highly critical in a negative sense
        • tell people what they're doing wrong while telling what they're doing right
        • like "Here's what I like about what you're doing, and here's how you might improve it."

  • telling the truth

    • truth-telling works best when it involves revealing your own feelings, not when used to insult others and to get your own way
    • just say what we want to say; we don't have to spend a lot of time and energy not saying something
      • people's energy is devoted to deceiving and hiding and remembering
      • reduce in mistakes and increase in productivity

  • respect but don't indulge your own dark side

    • feel your anger rising, you can choose to work on a favorite project, or to transmute the energy beneath your anger to fuel

  • Set your priorities

    • indecision leads to inaction -> leads to low energy, depression, despair
    • in terms of energy, it's better to make a wrong choice than none at all
      • list your priorities - for the day, for the week, for the month, for the lifetime
      • set priorities by dividing the items
      • take time for wise planning, and move, keep moving

  • aware of the alarm bells, and prepare for serious negotiations

    • know how much you enjoy and profit from the change

  • practice the activity on a regular basis

    • not so much for the sake of achieving an external goal as simply for its own sake

  • develop a support system

    • people you can share the joys and perils of the change you're making
    • people who can tell their own stories of change and listen to yours
    • people have gone through or are going through a similar process
    • people will brace you up when you start to backslide and encourage you when you don't
Loving the plateau
  • Practice, the path of mastery, exists only in the present
    • you can see it, hear it, smell it, feel it
    • "soften my breathing and bring me a feeling of peace"
    • "when I get started, there's a wonderful sense of well-being. I like to feel myself plodding along. when it's going good, I feel 'this is the essential me.' It's the routine itself that feeds me. If I didn't do it, I'd be betraying the essential me"
ch5 - Learning from a master teacher

  • seek the best guidance available

    • counselors, books, or a sympathetic, unbiased friends

  • a master teacher at the beginning of the learning process

    • credentials
    • humility, patience, empathy
      • focus on the interaction
        proceed through praise? show respect for the student

  • keep the proper psychological distance

    • too far, there's no chance for the surrender to your teacher
    • too close, lose all perspective and become a disciple rather than a student
ch6 - Practice - master the commonplace

  • feel yourself

    • maintain full awareness of each of your movements
    • let the awareness extend to your own mental, physical, and emotional condition

  • stay balanced, centered, and focused on the process rather than pressing impatiently for completion

  • the feel

    • have the feel - the knowledge and experience - necessary to appreciate the subtleties and endless possibilities contained within even the most rudimentary technique

    • you'll find it to be a vivid place, with its ups and downs,its challenges and comforts, its surprises, disappointments, and unconditional joys

      • you 'll take your share of bumps and bruises while traveling - bruises of the ego as well as of the body, mind, and spirit - but it might well turn out to be the most reliable thing in your life
ch7 - surrender to your teacher, not as a guru

  • surrender to your teacher and to the fundamentals of the art

    • invoke the spirit of the fool
    • show more respect for his teachers; carry himself with an air of calm sincerity and unfailingly aware of everything going on around him, without a hint of ostentation

  • the essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty

    • satisfaction lies in the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes

  • There are only learners

    • cultivate the mind and heart of the beginning at every stage along the way
ch8 - Intentionality

  • cultivate a positive attitude

    • mental toughness -> focus on a problem or a long-term gaol
    • openness and imagination -> see options and visualize desired states

  • hold the vision or the feeling in their mind, and then practice it over and over

    • the mental image is vividly clear and when I can somehow "feel" my fingers moving

    • the transformation from the feeling of the skill to be learned in the mind

      • combine exercises in deep relaxation with vivid mental imaging of the skill to be learned

    • Never hit a shot without first clearly visualizing the ball's perfect flight and its triumphant destination

ch9 - explore the Edge

  • open to experience, to challenge previous limits, to take risks

  • masters share her stupid, heroic desire to use herself to the limit, to finish at all cost, to attain the unattainable

references

Learning How to Learn - apply the ideas

  • practice makes permanent
  • focus module: study it hard by focusing intently

  • diffuse module: then take a break or at least change your focus on something different for awhile

  • learning some new

  • from working memory to long-term memory using spaced repetition

  • practice the same number of times over several days

  • the importnace of sleep in learning

  • interview

  • learning by doing, and learning by osmosis from expers
  • ask questions, and learn more by active engagement rather then passive listening
  • some exercises or walking in nature from the normal train of thought and new ideas
  • how to learn
    • surrounded by other people who are stimulating you and events can actively participate in
    • an enriched environment exercise - moment of pause of using your muscles rather than your brain

  • how to be more effective

    • in a creative environment where others people are creative
    • have a better ideas if I talk to somebody, and try to explain to them my ideas

  • how to keep yourself creative

    • having youth around really a great way to keep yourself youthful

  • tell to youth

    • success isn't necessarily come by being smart
    • a lot of success in life is that passion and persistence to staying working on it

实践学习法 - 边做边学 - 实践-反馈-实践-反馈

  • 只需記住最简单的定义即可
    • 把学到的理论放到实践的情境中理解

  • 找人指导你实践并寻求反馈

    • 更能从实践的失败里得到有建设性的反馈
    • 将反馈得到的新知识运用到下一次实践中
    • 再次找人指导你实践并寻求反馈

  • 你已经知道的是什么？根据已经知道的，你有什么假设？我们马上可以行动起来的第一步是什么？

    • 最有效的学习途径就是：具备一定基础知识后，投入到实践活动中，然后发现了问题进行调研学习
    • start small

reference