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Ask HN: What's the most useful skill you ever learned?
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Re: Ask HN: What's the most useful skill you ever learned?
#2This is a very meta response, but the best skill I've ever learned is how to learn. Barbara Oakley's Learning How To Learn class [0] was immensely helpful for understanding how brains work and how I could learn efficiently.
I made it through college with a combination of cramming and bad sleep habits, but focusing on spaced repetition, the diffuse/active modes, and sleep has made classes I've taken since feel like easy mode.
Re: Ask HN: What's the most useful skill you ever learned?
#3Programming.
Re: Ask HN: What's the most useful skill you ever learned?
#4This is a very meta response, but the best skill I've ever learned is how to learn. Barbara Oakley's Learning How To Learn class [0] was immensely helpful for understanding how brains work and how I could learn efficiently. I made it through college with a combination of cramming and bad sleep habits, but focusing on spaced repetition, the diffuse/active modes, and sleep has made classes I've taken since feel like ea…
I did not care for that course. The production value was horrendous 2 years ago when I tried to take it. But this answer is 100% accurate
Re: Ask HN: What's the most useful skill you ever learned?
#5Public speaking
Re: Ask HN: What's the most useful skill you ever learned?
#6This is a very meta response, but the best skill I've ever learned is how to learn. Barbara Oakley's Learning How To Learn class [0] was immensely helpful for understanding how brains work and how I could learn efficiently. I made it through college with a combination of cramming and bad sleep habits, but focusing on spaced repetition, the diffuse/active modes, and sleep has made classes I've taken since feel like ea…
I did not care for that course. The production value was horrendous 2 years ago when I tried to take it. But this answer is 100% accurate
Ha, I know what you mean! I found the information extremely valuable, but I do agree that the production value leaves a lot to be desired. I'm not sure if you've read her book A Mind For Numbers, but it has largely the same information (without nearly as many clipart zombies).
Re: Ask HN: What's the most useful skill you ever learned?
#7Active listening. I'm amazed at how much better discussions go when this simple tool is used. Conflicts big and small melt away. Understanding, trust, and confidence are built. And even if not everyone agrees at the end, they at least feel heard, which is such an overlooked and underrated need.
Re: Ask HN: What's the most useful skill you ever learned?
#8Touch typing. Took a course at Sawyer Business College during my psychiatry rotation in my 3rd year of med school.
Re: Ask HN: What's the most useful skill you ever learned?
#9Active listening. I'm amazed at how much better discussions go when this simple tool is used. Conflicts big and small melt away. Understanding, trust, and confidence are built. And even if not everyone agrees at the end, they at least feel heard, which is such an overlooked and underrated need.
What resource did you learn this from?
Re: Ask HN: What's the most useful skill you ever learned?
#10Transcendental meditation, and making it a daily habit. Changed my life.