How to Learn Everything About Everything

How to Learn Everything About Everything

1. Find those who know the most about a subject, and learn from them. Make a list of them - the Subject Matter Experts or SMEs. Transformation SMEs. Marketing SMEs. Seed Eco-Home Hackathon SMEs. This could also be Rapid Learning Platforms, Platforms for Solving Pressing World Issues. Etc.
2. To learn, create a journal or online notebook where you can keep repeating what you learn. A hyperlinked environment is very useful, invented in 1989 by Tim - see Semantic Web. Such as a Wiki or semantic wiki. Keep repeating to form connections in your brain. That repeating can be done by going to different media - from visual to cognitive to feeling, to CAD or to hands-on, to writing, diagramming, to Zachman Ontology. Anything that repeats the subject matter from different perspectives.
3. Create an Open Source Genius Network with them. Create a collaborative Incentive Challenge based on this network. Create a venue for upgrading information, with specific guidance for large-scale collaboration for Solving Pressing World Issues. This is like Linux collaboration for solving pressing world issues.
4. Create forums for action to execute. Ie, learning is weak without intent of action. For example, TED is somewhat like that, but it does not have an execution mechanism of Action Research, closest within TED perhaps being TED Fellows who participate actively with the TED community, such as myself.

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• There are a couple of things you can do to get closer:

1. Look for underlying / shared principles. Learn psychology, logic, and a bit of game theory and you can quickly pick up on anything involving interaction between people like politics, law, marketing, business, and so on. Learn to think about systems can you can understand everything from engines to computers to how cities work.
2. Practice learning. Observe more experienced people in an area to get an idea of what they do and what parts are the most important, most basic things underlying it. Then focus on practicing those things and understanding how other ideas build on them. Use this to quickly understand the most important things about any new area so you don't have to spend a lot of time on it. Josh Kaufman's book The First 20 Hours explains this in more detail.
3. Look for learning patterns. Tim Ferris talks about the questions he asks to learn a new spoken or written language quickly. Similarly if I want to learn a new programming language there are a few things I would look for so that I know enough to write simple programs after a day.
4. Decide why you want to learn. Do you just want to know a lot of facts? Read Wikipedia. Do you want to know what others are thinking about? Watch popular TV shows. Do you want to know things that will change your life for the better? Study philosophy and psychology, and people who seem to have effective principles.
5. Know your limits. Mark Twain said "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." With hard work you can have a lot of information and use it to live a better life. The second you start to overestimate your knowledge you will start to cause problems. Never forget what you don't know.

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• To learn, build on what you know already, including method of loci - [1]