Benjamin Keep, PhD, JD | 7 Tips For Learning Anything On Your Own @benjaminkeep | Uploaded October 2022 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
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
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REFERENCES
On creating meaningful learning goals, see:
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. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6016031
On spacing, see my Medium article and the references linked therein: 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 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. stackexchange.com/sites#
The Magic player was Kenji "NumotTheNummy" Egashira, his channel is here: @NumotTheNummyYT
Steph Curry highlights were from: youtube.com/watch?v=7fPcse1phtk.
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
Sign up to my email newsletter, Avoiding Folly, here: benjaminkeep.com
REFERENCES
On creating meaningful learning goals, see:
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. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6016031
On spacing, see my Medium article and the references linked therein: 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 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. stackexchange.com/sites#
The Magic player was Kenji "NumotTheNummy" Egashira, his channel is here: @NumotTheNummyYT
Steph Curry highlights were from: youtube.com/watch?v=7fPcse1phtk.
