7 Tips For Learning Anything On Your Own

Learning things on your own is hard. Maybe these tips will help. 00:42 How to make specific learning goals 02:03 What are the key skills? 03:21 Gathering learning resources 04:02 A note on scheduling 04:48 Making the best use of feedback 08:12 Watch out for time-sensitive learning goals 10:15 When to make a change Sign up to my email newsletter, Avoiding Folly, here: REFERENCES On creating meaningful learning goals, see: , from the Carl Weiman Science Initiative To read more about metacognition and illusions of knowing, see: Avhustiuk, M. M., Pasichnyk, I. D., & Kalamazh, R. V. (2018). The illusion of knowing in metacognitive monitoring: Effects of the type of information and of personal, cognitive, metacognitive, and individual psychological characteristics. Europe’s Journal of Psychology, 14(2), 317. On spacing, see my Medium article and the references linked therein: To read more about Goodhart’s Law and other ways that metrics can backfire, I highly recommend: Muller, J. Z. (2019). The Tyranny of Metrics. Princeton University Press. CREDITS My blog post example was - a really good website discussing the intuitions behind many math concepts. The Youtube channel example was Mathematical Visual Proofs: @MathVisualProofs The textbook example was “University Physics“ - widely regarded as one of the best basic physics books out there. Young, H. D., Freedman, R. A., & Ford, A. L. (2016) Sears and Zemansky’s university physics. Pearson education. 14th Edition. There’s more recent editions as well. StackExchange is one of the great places to get answers to questions by experts - especially in programming, engineering, and mathematics. The forum post I showed was from CrossValidated - their statistics arm. # The Magic player was Kenji “NumotTheNummy“ Egashira, his channel is here: @NumotTheNummyYT Steph Curry highlights were from: