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

• TODO

• reference
• [What to learn](https://danluu.com/learn-what/)

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](https://book.douban.com/subject/1461005/) 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](https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn/home/week/1)