the-art-of-learning



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  • brain
  • 2020-10-27
    • I'm calling my brain a jungle because of a great learning metaphor [[Josh Waitzkin]] gives in [[The Art of Learning]]. It's goes like this. Learning is like being a jungle, where all you have is a machete. To stay alive, you must hack your way to livable space. You'll feel lost, you'll be tired, but you have to keep hacking until you can make some sense out of the vast jungle you're in. After enough work, you'll make it to a clearing, or make your own, and you can lay down some stake to the learning you've done
  • 2020-11-03

    I have a bad habit of trying to give upfront context before I tell a story, in writing and in person. When I first went to write this one, I tried to explain too much - I wanted to make sure people knews I got it From [[The Art of Learning]], I wanted to lay out all the ways the metaphor expands to funny little details about learning. By the time I'd have given the context, I could have told the story three times over. To fight this habit, I took an idea from [[David Perrell]], “start the story when you’re about to get eaten by a bear.” Don’t explain, don’t give unnecessary context, get into the meat. And let the reader expand on the idea on their own. Give them a story that grabs, them. Don't beat it to death with explanation. Here's my next attempt:

  • how-it-works

    As Josh Waitzkin describes in [[The Art of Learning]], learning is like hacking your way through a jungle. All directions look the same, you're tired, but there is only one thing to do - keep moving. As a result, you build trails through previously untouched patches, you find important landmarks, and you eventually understand the previously mysterious world that surrounds you.

  • trailheads
  • why

    As Josh Waitzkin describes in [[The Art of Learning]], learning is like hacking your way through a jungle. All directions look the same, you're tired, but there is only one thing to do - keep moving. As a result, you build trails through previously untouched patches, you find important landmarks, and you eventually understand the previously mysterious world that surrounds you.

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