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How To Learn
There's so much knowledge available today through formats such as books, podcasts, videos etc. Add that to the fact, the internet has reduced the barrier to access information. It's easy to get inundated by the sheer volume of what's available even at your fingertip.
That's a way to define information overload. Which can be a problem.
How do I know what I want?
How do I sift through myriad resources to get to the helpful/valuable ones?
These are important questions because you don't have infinite time, neither is your energy infinite.
Here are tips to help your discernment when you're learning.
1) Watch your excitement.
This will help you not to fall prey to smart copywriters or sweet talkers. You see, not everyone who is "successful" can teach others to achieve it. Various reasons for this, some aren't really good at communicating lessons, some got successful by a stroke of luck (e.g some crypto millionaires), hence can't actually replicate it.
So when next you see "I make $1000 daily, I'll show you how". Deliberately curb your excitement, not because the person is lying but because you need your emotions out of the way so you can accurately assess this teacher.
If you do most of your learnings over the internet, as I do, take this tip seriously. It will save you money and mental stress.
2) Don't buy lottery ticket numbers.
When you want to study something, be careful the books or materials you go for (or that catch your attention). Go for materials that teach the fundamental principles of that concept. Not just random cooked up principles by the author, go for the books/materials that communicate the first principles of the subject you're looking to study.
Rarely go for materials where the authors just reel out stories of how they attained it. This is like handing over to you their lottery winning ticket numbers, it only satisfies emotions, when you get to the "field" you often find these helpless because our experiences can't be the same. That's when you find people say "self-help books are trash". Well, you went for the wrong book.
For example, if I want to learn about money, I would rather go for "The Richest Man in Babylon" than a "How I Make $4000 monthly". Hope you understand me now?
I know sometimes we get these "story-books" so we can have an idea, a mental picture of what the journey of our goal is like. Well, I do too. But I ensure I extract the principles therein. I'm actually aiming at reading less of such books because the map of the author is often different from my reality, but timeless principles don't change.
If this “opened your eyes”, read it again. And keep coming back to it.
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