Notes on Learning How to Learn

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

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• reference

  • 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

• Mastery-ch5 by George Leonard

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

• Learning How to learn