Learning How to Learn

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Summary

Rapid learning refers to the toolset for learning everything about everything and to build anything. Rapid is implied in both of these tasks, as 'everything ' and 'anything' are comprehensive subjects, and thus learning rapidly is prerequisite. Tools used here are:

  • RLFs across many topics and sectors
  • Attaining leverage in learning by forming accurate mental models and avoiding fallacies and logical traps, while being fueled by moral intelligence which informs general semantics and emotional intelligence. This is done while gaining leverage on reading and comprehension by speed reading, mnemonics, retrieval practice, and oodles of pedagogical techniques
  • Unlimited advisory boards, mentorships, and other personal assist
  • Unlimited library access to all knowledge
  • Construction Sets for all technology
  • Civilization Sterter Kits
  • Open, collaborative framework in civilization
  • Community of open, collaborative swarms
  • OSE's 10 year program for attaining genius in 2-4 areas, see Genius Recovery and Edge of Knowledge

All of the above relies on having a large mission with purpose, thus pursuing this enterprise and learning that mastery requires many operational aspects and many skills.

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Basics

How do you learn something completeley new and complex rapidly? Here are hints for rapid, interdisciplinary learning for systems thinkers.

  1. Learn Applied Time Binding
  2. Speed Reading
  3. Learn that there are books. And they are free on https://archive.org and your local library. Libraries typically have interlibrary loan or ebook loan.
  4. Do not engage a topic without a clear reason for why you want to learn it. This is the preparation phase. The best practice here is to connect the learning to a specific goal. Specific goals can be aspirational, and if they are aspirational, they can provide a lot of inspiration and motivation. Thus, a significant part of your learning should be spent in the preparation phase. The preparation phase will allow you to become clear on what your goals are (so you can attain your goals rapidly), and it will also expand your index of possibilities.
  5. But even before reason/motivation is energy level, and Fear of Sucking. Both are related to health: physical and psychological/emotional. Thus, a prerequisite for boundless learning is attention to one's health if one is interested in longevity as opposed to a burst of inspiration and dying at a young age. Physical health allows one to have the energy to take on larger goals. While some people are motivated by extreme conviction, it helps to be healthy. Extreme conviction doesn't guarantee the value or ethics of one's pursuits, while a healthy, balanced life tends to improve one's ethical compass.
  6. Expand your index of possibilities. Rest assured that the more you know, the more certain you should be how little you know. There is always room to grow. There are alwys unknown unknowns: things that we don't know that we don't know. Thus the curious mind should always keep alive and learning. Appreciate the Johari Window for what you don't know, and seek actively to become aware of the things that you are not aware of that you don't know - so that you can improve your life.
  7. The limit of learning is each of us becoming godlike in their capacity. Unlimited capacity is an inspiration to strive for, and we should not externalize the capacity for what may be seen as magic to anyone other than ourselves.
  8. There is no such thing as born genius. Everyone takes practice. In the nature vs nurture argument - it is nurture that wins. Not being aware of this reality is to accept eternal widening of inequality. People are not equal. It is morally incumbent on intelligent society to create ways for people to grow. See 10000 Hours to Genius.
  9. Read widely, on multiple perspectives, and broadly. Understand that interdisciplinary thinking allows you to make analogies and to use one field of knowledge to help you learn more rapidly in other fields.
  10. Cultivate First Principles Thinking and Critical Thinking to expand your index of possibilities.
  11. Strive to know everything about everything as your mindset. Cultivate curiosity, exploration, and novel approaches. Cultivate integrated thinking that allows you to pick knowledge from multiple fields and apply it to relevant solutions.
  12. Consider what is important and eternal, and distinguish that from noise.
  13. Understand that people overestimate what they could do in the short term, but underestimate what they can do in the long term. Thus, strive for the long view to get farther in life.
  14. “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” - Einstein. If it's too complicated, it probably shouldn't be. When somebody says something is really complicated, they are likely not at the top of their game and not the right person to teach you rapidly. See an example of a simple model that was more correct in the Heliocentric Theory:

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  1. Identify seminal books on the topic, both classics and current - and read them.
  2. Learn to recognize Mental Models and various paradigms of how things work.

Survey of Prior Art

(up to page 12 of google search results for 'learning how to learn'

More

  • “You want to increase arousal so [the brain encodes] information at a deeper level,’” says Mark Guadagnoli, a professor of neuroscience and neurology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, School of Medicine. “It’s [like] using a laser to engrave something versus a ballpoint pen.” - from 10000 Hours to Genius
  • Delay the automatizing process';' - [25]
  • The primary trait she possesses is not some mysterious genius. It’s the ability to develop a deliberate, strenuous and boring practice routine - [26]

Variables

Dan Plan crystallizes the sheer number of variables, beyond deliberate practice, involved in attaining excellence in a field:

  • Reliable access to effective instruction
  • Support system and motivation provided by a cohort of peers striving toward the same goal
  • Psychological factors, even the role of negative emotion—gnawing insecurity, for example—as a driving force behind high achievement?

Learning Assessment

Can a person learn? Can you assess if a person can learn? The answer to the former is a clear yes, though many people do not learn new things, or learn slowly. can you assess how well a person learns? What existing assessments are there? For if we can measure it, we can improve it.

And next, what is the state of learning assessment? Ideally, we would define an operational definition of learning - extending whatever exists to new realms of possibility - so that we can promote:

  1. People learning faster
  2. Poeple learning how to learn
  3. Becoming aware of blindspots and unknows to facilitate learning
  4. Help people open up to new learning and new possibility
  5. Promote positive psychology and growth, as opposed to stagnation and reactionary thought
  6. Expand the index of possibilities by helping individuals uncover new powers - of learning and performance in all areas from production, personal development, and art
  7. A transition to a more balanced society with more fulfilled and meaningful lives, where people take control of their destiny as in Self-Determination Theory

Specifically for OSE - how do we create responsible individuals, who act as stewarts of their communities, so they can stewart the world?

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