Intellectual curiosity drives progress and economic growth. Learning requires experimentation, mistakes, and growth. Challenging ourselves leads to meaningful learning experiences.

https://betterhumans.pub/slow-reading-is-the-new-deep-learning-452f179c0289

How We Learn New Things

https://medium.com/@nicmacphail/what-i-learned-from-a-year-of-doing-precisely-what-i-wanted-9321f0e5fca8

With this novel perspective, I’ve freely followed my curiosity, without any ‘end goal’. Instead using my unearthed, deeper perception to experience the world in new ways. It feels a little like being able to see in the dark, using an internal compass to navigate, when sight is of less use.

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_to_make_sure_you_keep_growing_and_learning

There’s nothing automatic that guarantees that you’ll gain useful insights from any particular experience. To learn and grow, it matters what you do with what happens to you. That means approaching your most important experiences with a learning mindset, bringing a specific focus on your personal

http://paulgraham.com/greatwork.html?utm_source=substack

Once you've found something you're excessively interested in, the next step is to learn enough about it to get you to one of the frontiers of knowledge. Knowledge expands fractally, and from a distance its edges look smooth, but once you learn enough to get close to one, they turn out to be full of gaps.
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** Fractally= chaotic, non-linear, irregular

https://nesslabs.com/liminal-creativity

life is a creative adventure that requires becoming comfortable with discomfort, a journey where we continually experiment, make mistakes, learn, and gr

What I learned from a year of doing precisely what I wanted…

https://medium.com/@nicmacphail/what-i-learned-from-a-year-of-doing-precisely-what-i-wanted-9321f0e5fca8

I began to be more perceptive to those things that peaked my curiosity, that lit me up and interested me. Books, places, activities, people, topics, skills

Stop Forgetting What You Learn Using Learning Science

https://medium.com/skilluped/stop-forgetting-what-you-learn-using-learning-science-ff859f5b0a24

the most impactful learning happens when you test the edges of your abilities and knowledge. We need to slowly challenge ourselves in order to make progress

Lifelong Learning

https://fs.blog/lifelong-learning/

While both avenues have their place, there is no substitute for direct learning through experience – which we enhance through reflection. The process of thoughtful reflection makes our experiences more concrete, and helps with future recall and understanding. Reflecting about what we learned, how we felt, how we and others behaved, and what interests were at play, hardwires the learning in our brain and gives us a depth of context and relevance that would otherwise be absent.
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From Laurence Endersen’s book: Pebbles of Perception: How a Few Good Choices Make All The Difference

Stop Forgetting What You Learn Using Learning Science

https://medium.com/skilluped/stop-forgetting-what-you-learn-using-learning-science-ff859f5b0a24

The Learning Process

The Death of Intellectual Curiosity | Sven Schnieders

https://svenschnieders.github.io/curiosity/

People who keep on learning throughout their lives do not talk in boring presentations about it, because for them it is not an abstract concept that has to be integrated into everyone’s life. They know that lifelong learning is not something that academics can persuade people to do, rather it is a natural consequence of intellectual curiosity. This is a key observation and changes the goal from “making people lifelong learners” to “making people intellectually curious.”

The Ten-Book Rule for Smarter Thinking - Scott H Young

https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2022/12/13/the-ten-book-rule-for-smarter-thinking/

I think there are two broad ways to learn more about the world: building up from the basics, or learning for specific ends. Both have merit, but after you have mastered the basics, the sheer volume of knowledge explodes, so it helps to ask more pointed questions.

The Death of Intellectual Curiosity | Sven Schnieders

https://svenschnieders.github.io/curiosity/

the only thing you need is intellectual curiosity—to see learning as something you do for fun in your “free time.” Pro

2 tricks will help you learn and remember new stuff

https://www.futurity.org/learning-memory-tricks-strategy-2819702/

“Learning how to learn is going to ensure that anywhere you go after the formal education years, you’re going to know how to learn something and be successful,”

Novelty fallacy: why new isn’t always better

https://nesslabs.com/novelty-fallacy

The way we experience novelty can have a significant impact on learning, performance and cognitive development: neuroscientists have explored experiences of novelty and discovered that novelty increases our attention, promotes memory formation, and modifies our goal-directed behaviour. As such, our attraction to novelty can be helpful for our survival, but a fast-changing environment can render this cognitive bias rather problematic.

Emilie Wapnick: Why some of us don't have one true calling | TED Talk

https://www.ted.com/talks/emilie_wapnick_why_some_of_us_don_t_have_one_true_calling/transcript

embrace your many passions. Follow your curiosity down those rabbit holes. Explore your intersections. Embracing our inner wiring leads to a happier, more authentic life.

The 100-Hour Rule: Forgotten Study Shows How You Can B

The Future of Learning

https://medium.com/s/story/what-is-the-future-of-learning-3ff625d1dc86

Learning itself is a skill, and when you exercise that skill across domains, you get specialized as a learner in a way that someone who goes deep doesn’t. You learn how to learn by continuously challenging yourself to grasp concepts of a broad variety. This ironically then allows you to specialize in something else faster if you so choose. This is an incredibly valuable advantage.
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Zat Rana. **Insightful!

The Death of Intellectual Curiosity | Sven Schnieders

https://svenschnieders.github.io/curiosity/

Once you start studying on your own—out of pure curiosity—you will notice a big difference in the way you understand and retain new information. The relevance of any given information used to be determined by how important it was for passing the exam. Now you get to decide which information is worth keeping and which is not. This skill—detecting a signal in all the noise of information and discarding everything else—is one of the most important skills to acquire in our modern information age. Ideally, you use boredom as your natural content filter, allowing yourself to only study