Learning

I Recently came across a quote from a book. I like great quotes because they are often inspirational and life changing. The book in question is “How to read a book”, and the quote is:

“Whenever you read something you don’t understand, that’s the only chance you’re ever given to recognize the opportunity to learn something new.”

That quote completely changed the way I now approach every book.… Read more

Brain Rules is a book written by John Medina where he goes through 12 principles called brain rules describing how our brain works and how to improve our life based on those principles. John is a molecular biologist who spent his whole life studying how the brain works, and in the book he shares what scientists know for sure about the human brain.

Brain Rules

In this article I want to share five powerful… Read more

Editor note: This is a guest post by Josh Hanagarne, World’s Strongest Librarian

“Mrs, Hanagarne, good to see you again,” said the doctor as he lowered a pair of long, sharp scissors into my throat. The blades were especially long, narrow, and bent at a strange angle, although the angle was well-suited for its purpose: extraction.

“You too, Doctor.”

“What was it this time?”

I was four

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I’ve always been interested in applying scientific and philosophical concepts to real life. Lately I’ve been reading Zen and the art of motocycle mainteinance, a book by Robert M. Pirsig, and I’ve been fascinated by the way he express his ideas. The book has very little to do with Zen or motocycles, instead it’s full of interesting thoughts about life, science and philosophy. One thing I’ve found… Read more

In this post I want to share my thoughts about how to dramatically increase the amount of information you can get from reading a book. The process I’m going to describe only applies to nonfiction books, and in particular to physical books rather than e-books, as it involves a bit of management. Having said that, you can apply the foundamental principle to your ebook if you want to.

A bad approach

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This has been one of my main issues related to learning in the past. The problem that I wanted to solve is: Now that I know that I should act in a certain way, how do I actually remember and do it? Let’s be honest, how many times you’ve read a top ten list about how to be exceptional at something? Nice stuff, but what happened after you read it? Nothing, in most cases. I’ve already talked about how… Read more

It’s strange to be talking about programming in a personal development blog, but I think it useful for you to know what are the advantages of learning how to program and what you can get from it for your day to day life. I have been programming since I was 16 and I’ve been doing it professionally since I was 19. The benefits I gained by learning how to program are enormous and they help me in almost… Read more

This is a followup to my last post about how to keep track of what you’ve learnt. There has been a lot of discussion on various social networks about it and I’m glad many people liked it. Unfortunately keeping track of what you’ve learnt is only half of the story. If you really want to master what you’ve learnt then you must be doing something about it.

A quick introduction

First, I want to clarify… Read more

Most people forget what they’ve just learnt within 12 and 24 hours. If you are reading this post now, chances are that tomorrow you’ll not even remember it. Our brain works like a big search engine, when you insert a new piece of information, it goes on a big stack called short term memory. When you want to remember that information, your brain will try to search inside that stack for the information… Read more

Have you ever wondered what it is an effective method to learn something? In the last 3-4 years I switched from a common lifestyle where I was reading maybe one book a year, to a more exciting lifestyle now where I read at least one book per week. Do you guess something? 80% of what I’ve studied in the last 4 years is gone, probably 2 days after I studied it. Why? Because what I read was useless… Read more