<aside> 📌 In this playbook, you'll learn about some of the most validated methods to learn. Isn't it odd how we go through school and are told to learn things, but we're never taught how to actually learn? There is a method to learning. You will get smarter if you practice these methods.
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✅After this, you will:
There are 2 areas I'll focus on:
<aside> 💡 If you don't have the right mindset, you will never unlock your true potential to learn. All the tips and tricks you learn won't be as valuable. So don't get too excited and skip to the tricks - master this part first.
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Here's the mindset you need to optimize learning:
Mindset 1: Be excited about the topic.🤩
If you're not excited, trick yourself into being excited. Figure out a way to be engaged with the content. Spend time before you start learning to get yourself to be genuinely interested in what you're about to learn.
Mindset 2: Understand why what you're learning is important.🧠
There's a reason for everything you learn, figure out what that reason is. Don't be scared to ask why what you're learning matters. Especially in school, ask your teachers why this is important. It will give you a reason to learn it.
Mindset 3: Have realistic expectations on how long it will take you to learn it.💯
If you expect it will take you 5 days to learn everything about quantum mechanics, you will set yourself up for failure. After 5 days you'll feel you don't know anything, think you did something wrong, get discouraged, and stop.
Similarly, if you don't have an idea of how long something will take to learn, you don't have an idea of how much time you need to invest to understand the content.
Implication: before you start learning something, allocate enough time for yourself to learn about it. Give yourself a timeline and schedule time to learn it.
Mindset 4: Don't compare yourself to others.🎯