[[Notes]] - Topics: [[Learning]] - People: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m90cqDpbipo - Source: [[Jason Calacanis]], [[Lex Fridman]] --- ## Summary - [[The skill you need to refine is the skill to learn new skills]]. - [[Know enough so that others can't take advantage of your ignorance]], as [[Ignorance is where vultures prey]]. - [[There's a lesson in every loss]]. [[The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing]]. - [[To know is to begin; to act is to achieve.]] ## Notes ### Learning new skills - [[The skill you need to refine is the skill to learn new skills]]. - Learning new skills helps you expand and improve the ways and capacities in which you can solve problems, create things, and make impact. - Learning new skills helps you do more things and/or do things better - especially if you apply them across different disciplines. - Action is the application of knowledge. [[To know is to begin; to act is to achieve.]] - Instead of watching the next Game of Thrones or Breaking Bad, invest the 400 hours (or so) of time into learning a new skill. Just for the next couple of shows. ### Knowing enough - [[Know enough so that others can't take advantage of your ignorance]]. - [[Ignorance is where vultures prey]]. - [[Know enough to see who knows their stuff]]. ### Practice - Review your losses; your mistakes; your failures. - [[There's a lesson in every loss]]. [[The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing]]. - Practice a lot and do it deliberately. Focus on refining a smaller piece of the skill you wish to learn - a bit; a segment; a verse; a chord; a routine; a trick. - [[Excellence demands effort and planned, deliberate practice of increasing difficulty.]] - [[Become really good at a lot of small things]]. ### Getting better - If you want to get better, make it competitive (even slightly).