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Ask HN: What is your single best advice for studying / acquiring new skills?
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Re: Ask HN: What is your single best advice for studying / acquiring new skills?
#2Just get on with it without wasting time trying to find the best way. Suboptimal methods achieve better results than not starting.
Re: Ask HN: What is your single best advice for studying / acquiring new skills?
#3For me:
Get book on the subject, read from cover to cover and create question/answer in Anki.
When it comes time to refresh your knowledge on the book, just test yourself on the items you added to Anki.
Re: Ask HN: What is your single best advice for studying / acquiring new skills?
#4The sooner you start something and start failing. Get yourself into a feedback loop of try/fail/try again/fail less/etc/etc
You can read and research all day long, but that does not build skill.
Test your own ideas by writing and sharing. Hopefully the feedback you get from peers and anons online will be helpful.
Re: Ask HN: What is your single best advice for studying / acquiring new skills?
#5The sooner you start something and start failing. Get yourself into a feedback loop of try/fail/try again/fail less/etc/etc You can read and research all day long, but that does not build skill. Test your own ideas by writing and sharing. Hopefully the feedback you get from peers and anons online will be helpful.
> You can read and research all day long, but that does not build skill.
This is honestly what gets me every. single. time.
I’ll get stuck and I have no idea where to reach out for help and I’ll start trying to research, fight with google filters, then decide to put it off and start researching other things (for the same project or a different one) and eventually give up.
Re: Ask HN: What is your single best advice for studying / acquiring new skills?
#6(for anything "doable") learn by doing. Practice is the best teacher.
Re: Ask HN: What is your single best advice for studying / acquiring new skills?
#7Stop looking for the perfect advice/best method/non-existing silver bullet and just do it.
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#8I like to apply the things i learn and enjoy how they change the way i work or do tasks!
Re: Ask HN: What is your single best advice for studying / acquiring new skills?
#9Don't do it unless you plan to treat it seriously.
Re: Ask HN: What is your single best advice for studying / acquiring new skills?
#10Break it down into small incremental bits and dedicate ten minutes per day, every day. Once you've done this regularly for a month or two, you'll have a better sense of where to go from there.