How I Think About Learning @tutoriaLinux

Uploaded April 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

This is the way I think about learning -- a high-level framework for integrating learning into your life. This isn't about specific memorization or practice techniques -- it's about how to become a learning machine and all of those annoying problems that life puts in your way.

1. Imitate the best until you're getting consistent results.
2. Learn to make finer and finer distinctions until you can clearly see why each one works in different situations.
3. Learn to assign higher or lower value to different mindsets, behaviors, and results.
4. Create variations on the best of those ideas, get more experience.
5. Innovate.

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