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In short: you can’t expect educators, employers, or even friends to motivate you to learn something. Instead, the drive to learn must come from within you—from the principles of learning we’ve already established. If you want to build up the motivation to learn something, dive deep into your why. Why do you want to learn it? How will you use it? Why will your life be better once you have?
The Only Skill That Matters
Jonathan A. Levi
Put simply, it means that we should actively leverage our prior knowledge and experience when learning. We must compare and contrast the things that we’re learning to the information that we already know. How is it different? How is it the same? How can the information and experience we already have contribute to our understanding of this new and exciting topic? Far too often, we approach a “new” subject as if it’s completely foreign, when in fact, the whole of human knowledge is connected in some way.
The Only Skill That Matters
Jonathan A. Levi
To say that all Chinese people are short, however, is to stereotype. The key to a stereotype is that it is impervious to factual testing. A stereotype brooks no annoying interference with reality, and it relies on the clever use of confirmation bias to dismiss all exceptions as irrelevant. (Racists have mastered this mode of argument: “All Romanians are thieves except this one lady I work with, but she’s different.”) Stereotypes are not predictions, they’re conclusions. That’s why it’s called “prejudice”: it relies on pre-judging.
The Death of Expertise
Tom Nichols
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