Ask HN: How did you “learn to learn”? These days, everyone seems to be telling me to "lean to learn", as thats an art without which no-one can move forward. I tried googling the thing, but the problem is, there's just no direct way to "learn to learn", so I was wondering how you guys "learnt to learn".
When I say "learn to learn", this is the sense in which I mean it: http://jamesaltucher.quora.com/The-Skills-We-All-Need-But-College-Doesnt-Teach |
University does help a lot as well. Even if I definitely don't remember every fact from every course I've studied (although claiming that all is forgotten within 45 minutes would be a major exaggeration), I've been "forced" to learn a lot of different subjects within a limited time frame. In itself this means practice in learning and it also creates a large base on knowledge upon which I more easily can learn new things. Math stands out as the most important in that, as it's something that I find too tedious to learn on my own, but which is the language used in almost all technical subjects.