The Art of Learning Archive
Just Investigate
Whenever you are learning something new, Just Investigate It. I mean mentally, just explore. Realize that you don’t know about the thing, and so become open to it. Allow yourself to become engaged with whatever it is that you have […]
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Breakthroughs Come From Doing New Things
Breakthroughs come from doing new things. The same things we have always done, will give us the same results that we have always seen. In many cases along the path of mastery, the path forwards is a gradual plodding forwards, […]
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Breakthroughs Come From Hyperfocus On A Problem
Breakthroughs come from hyperfocus on a problem. Fixating all of our attention in precisely the obstacle that is in our way (or the thing that we desire to achieve) with all of our available attention, energy, and will. A mistake […]
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When I am learning something new, I am relentless. More than relentless, I am ruthless. I like to practice it for hours a day, obsessively, until I get it. A truth that I have found through my varied approaches to […]
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The Practice of Doing
The Practice of Doing is a fundamental emphasis on doing — not on planning, thinking about doing, practicing, or learning, but actually doing. Getting things done. Building. Creating. Finishing a project. For so many years I was focused on practicing, […]
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The more difficult the task, the greater the investment
The more difficult the task, the greater the investment required. One of the things that people don’t often seem to tell you, is that the greater the dream, the greater the sacrifice. For me personally, I was so infatuated by […]
Continue ReadingThe Relentless Push Forwards of the Learning Process
The Learning Process is defined by a Relentless Push Forwards. A constant, almost masochistic, search for skills beyond our ability, knowledge beyond our comprehension that unveils itself in experience as a steady state of discomfort, uncertainty, confusion, and failure that […]
Continue ReadingThe Art of Learning
The Art of Learning is, at its deepest level, simply our ability to deal with the chaos, uncertainty, sheer confusion, and adversity inherent in the very act of learning. The ability to continue moving forwards even while our minds are […]
Continue ReadingTypes of Language Learning — Passive and Active
The way I see it, there are three Types of Language Learning: Types of Language Study I believe that there are Three Types of Language Study — Passive Language Study, Active Language Learning, and Hybrid Language Learning — because this […]
Continue ReadingAn Effective Language Learning Process
An Effective Language Learning Process means learning languages better. Less wasted motion, and less wasted time, which means that I can learn languages faster, reaching higher levels in less time. Over years working with languages, I tried a number of […]
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