Let's assume you want to learn something useful.

You will need to come up with a project with milestones to achieve. Only *after* you set your goal can your brain kindle your whole body to learn.

Without focus it's impossible to master anything. Without specific problems to solve, there is nothing to focus on, nothing to learn, no motivation.

Humans are problem-oriented. If you recognize this you will 10X your passion and your productivity.

Just emulate the open-source devs. That's the passion that created bitcoin and nostr.

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This is good for building, bad for learning.

You miss so much when you’re solving a problem.

You can solve a million problems and not truly learn a thing.

Learning comes from taking an input and using a feedback loop to know what to retain and delete.

Where does your retention/deletion criteria come from?

I would argue it comes from a bigger framing, a goal that you already determined. Or at least it should be the case.

Training a skill is part of learning. But it is not the whole picture. That is why public schooling fails. It does train you to acquire skills, just not those *you* decided to learn for your own reasons. Thus it fails to actually teach anything.

Clear goals first, practice second. Helps you stay motivated.

Retention / deletion criteria is subconscious

True learning should help the command function as a feedback loop

Bad learning hurts it though (as I know because I’m always lost and why I’m relearning N, S, and geomagnetic axis vs the Google map)