Ask HN: How to learn new things better?

Post by samuell » Mon, Jan 09, 2017, 11:13 AM UTC

While I'm myself interested in learning more about this topic (the Coursera course mentioned here sounds interesting), I found this book really really interesting:

"So Good they Can't Ignore you", by Cal Newport

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13525945-so-good-they-ca...

It might not go into so much detail on learning (although it touches on the topic a bit), but it puts straight same basic "laws of nature", as I see it, about what really makes you grow: Deliberate practice, and absolutely not the modern phrase "follow your passion".

I like to connect that to the old wisdom of Solomon, in the book of proverbs in the Bible:

"All hard work brings a profit,

but mere talk leads only to poverty."

(Prov 14:23)

Post by biddlybobbily » Wed, Jan 11, 2017, 5:25 PM UTC

Some tips from me: -Free language apps or a rosetta stone package for Japanese, children's workbooks are actually great, eg. from 'gifts of the orient' website - Drawing: find images you like on deviantart or google images and sketch them in your own style Mahjong: possibly do what my partner did with chess; play against the computer, get books on techniques, follow the experts.

The most important thing with voluntary learning is that it stays voluntary- keep the passion! If you force yourself to study at a certain time and one day fail to do so, you'll beat yourself up and lose the will to learn. You're doing this for yourself, so do it with joy. Good luck!

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