Through all this skill learning experience, combined with the various readings and courses I've completed on the subject, I can now safely say that there is one timeless way to learn any new skills faster:
The more smartly-practiced skills you learn, the faster you'll learn other connected skills.
Let's break it down to more understandable chunks:
Smartly-practicedWhen's the last time you spent some time thinking about your learning experience for a given skill?
I'm not exaggerating when I say the majority of people stopped at age 12 or below. Studies show that kids lose the vast majority of their curiosity by the age of 12.
The short explanation is that when you start school, you don't have to think creatively anymore on how to solve problems. You are told what to think, what home-works to do, what tests to take, etc.
Even for people who do continuous education, most of them just blindly follow a curriculum laid out by a "teacher" who "knows" how to "best" learn a subject.
Remember how you learned to ride a bicycle as a kid?
Right! You watched and tried on your own. You failed. Many times. You tried again the next day. And guess what? A few days later, your brain started making the right connections for you.
Photo by Chelsea Aaron on UnsplashWhat's so smart about that?
You practiced the way that worked best for you. You didn't follow a YouTube tutorial you found on "the best way to learn how to ride a bicycle". You didn't practice this one method you found online over and over again until it worked (or ultimately didn't).
The best way to learn any skill is never the best way for everyone.
Connected skillsThis is probably the most important concept to understand. Skills are physical connections in your brain. We can call a group of connections a "chunk". A skill is a combination of multiple chunks in your brain.
To make things clearer, let's use a simple example. Let's deconstruct the skill of throwing a basketball by identifying some of the chunks necessary to perform a good throw:
Each from the list above is one or multiple chunks of connections in your brain.
Now, let's say you have become pretty good at throwing a basketball. What's another skill you think might be easier now to learn?
Right, a skill that uses the same chunks!
Now that you know how to flex your legs and jump, it's much easier to perform a long jump. In fact, without these chunks, there's no way you could do that!
See what I mean with connected skills?
Some skills can't be learned until you have a learned a "subset" of that skill.
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