7 Tips For Learning Anything On Your Own

Learning things on your own is hard. Maybe these tips will help. 00:00 Introduction 00:42 How to make specific learning goals 2:03 What are the key skills? 3:21 Gathering learning resources 4:02 A note on scheduling 4:48 Making the best use of feedback 8:12 Watch out for time-sensitive learning goals 10:15 When to make a change For more videos on learning, check out my learning community: https://www.benjaminkeep.com/community/ Sign up to my email newsletter, Avoiding Folly, here: https://www.benjaminkeep.com/ REFERENCES On creating meaningful learning goals, see: https://cwsei.ubc.ca/resources/instructor/learninggoals, from the Carl Weiman Science Initiative To read more about metacognition and illusions of knowing, see: Avhustiuk, M. M., Pasichnyk, I. D., & Kalamazh, R. V. (2018). The illusion of knowing in metacognitive monitoring: Effects of the type of information and of personal, cognitive, metacognitive, and individual psychological characteristics. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 14(2), 317. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6016031/ On spacing, see my Medium article and the references linked therein: https://bit.ly/3SBcD3v To read more about Goodhart's Law and other ways that metrics can backfire, I highly recommend: Muller, J. Z. (2019). The Tyranny of Metrics. Princeton University Press. CREDITS My blog post example was www.betterexplained.com - a really good website discussing the intuitions behind many math concepts. The Youtube channel example was Mathematical Visual Proofs: @MathVisualProofs The textbook example was "University Physics" - widely regarded as one of the best basic physics books out there. Young, H. D., Freedman, R. A., & Ford, A. L. (2016) Sears and Zemansky's university physics. Pearson education. 14th Edition. There's more recent editions as well. StackExchange is one of the great places to get answers to questions by experts - especially in programming, engineering, and mathematics. The forum post I showed was from CrossValidated - their statistics arm. https://stackexchange.com/sites# The Magic player was Kenji "NumotTheNummy" Egashira, his channel is here: @NumotTheNummyYT Steph Curry highlights were from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fPcse1phtk.