Deliberate Practice: Learning to learn is the most important skill | Jason Calacanis and Lex Fridman

[@Pudibu]

I was lucky to get this advice when I was very young - I deliberately practiced learning to learn - I am middle aged now and last year (2022), to prove to my kids that once you learn to learn you can learn anything, starting from absolutely zero skills, I learnt roller blading , ice-skating and skiing all within one year. Needless to say they are sold!

[@ST5S5]

When I was in college, I became really interested in learning new skills and dedicated a lot of time to it, which noticeably improved what I knew and what I could do. After college though, I became very busy with work and haven’t had the same amount of free time to dedicate to learning new skills. After seeing this video, I feel motivated to get back into the mindset I had.

[@longburnsustainablesolutio8169]

Same here, I was probably in every club in college and every time I sort of got what they were doing I move to the next one

[@Eterrath]

Mind sharing your story in a bit more detail? I'm in highschool now and interested in the same thing. But damn, paying for getting my flaws pointed out to me is always where I hit the break.

[@evanduquette]

One thing to consider is that you'll never be great at anything if you want to do everything. I've had to really narrow my interests to surpass the mediocre level I had been trapped at for years.

[@mikhailst.1482]

@@Eterrath don't take it personal, I mean its about intent; why are they pointing out your inadequacies, is it because they see a problem that needs to be addressed for the superiority of the group to increase? That should be accepted and understood, leaving the inferiority message to pass by in the river that is a swarm of your thoughts which constantly flow inside your brain. Otherwise is it because of some insecurity that they're projecting or they've had a bad day and are possessed by a negative state so they naturally pass on that negative charge to someone else because then they will feel better having rid themselves of that charge giving it away. You know when you feel hurt , hurting someone else feels kind of like it mollifies the pain. Well depending on what's the intent is if you should take the criticism not personally and ignore it due to its lack of genuine constructiveness. Criticism should only be spoken with the purpose for your improvement & THEN you should happily accept the criticism because its not meant to denigrate you but just means hey you can listen up and learn something you didn't notice or know before. Learning is a privelage we should all enjoy and appreciate how fortunate we are every time we realise we dont know something then it means we have an opportunity to learn something new and that's growth and improvement building a better you. Avoiding criticism is shallow because self education is limited to self perception and we're sooo blind to many things about us.

[@Eterrath]

@@mikhailst.1482 Thank you for your words. I'll keep them in mind when I can actually reach that stage, however. But what I was talking about is that I can't really move past the paywall. I'm a highschooler without a job. And things are a little different in my country. So what I'm basically saying is that I can't access that option, that facility at all. It's on me to point out to myself where my problems are and it can get tricky sometimes and takes the whole process up by a notch. I still haven't acquired any skill, I've only begun narrowing my options down since last year (the lockdowns gave me time separate from studies to realize that it's much more competitive than I thought). That's why I was asking for the other story in detail, because I need something to keep myself going, I need to get good at something so that I can stop blaming my finances and start blaming myself

[@sonderexpeditions]

Very true. I'm a self taught programmer. Since 6 years ago. It makes me good money 😊 Also self taught in languages and other hobbies. Now I practice Chess. I want to get good.

[@eli8069]

What is your strategy for learning?

[@keithkatane4854]

Congrats.

[@Majnun74]

This is who I suck at guitar. After listening to this entire conversation I focused, and decided to try tuning to a random CGCGeb.. it worked! I can play a completely unique Indo-Persian Raga voice now!

[@jacksonmorris-thring644]

I’ve been doing this with skateboarding at the moment, so fun to notice the slow progression of muscle memory

[@Dontbustthecrust]

What is your practicing regime look like?

[@neoTriny]

This clip was one of the best of lex discussions

[@TheJagjr4450]

I taught myself so many new skills ONE in particular was SQL and DB programming (ultimately built a DB with GUI) because someone wanted to charge me 60k to build an inventory system for my business.

[@freepatriot9070]

Damn. Did you rub it in by showing them you did it yourself?

[@MattGarcyaDC]

How long did that take and was it worth it for your business?

[@aae7583]

@@MattGarcyaDC Tabulating your business data and assessing your business via querying is one of the most important things you can do because you have now organized your data via a schema. This keeps you on top of your work and helps you breakdown your work in workable chunks. This method also works for students.

[@st3ppenwolf]

Unless your business is tiny, I bet that wasn't worth it

[@JreTV-ib3en]

Like a boss ... literally

[@beachchickensmedia]

Love this mindset!! So focused on learning new skills this year and last.

[@beethovensg]

Take up a musical instrument. You are compelled to learn many life related skills including confidence, spacial cognitive motor memory, personal introspection, analytical speculation. ... etc.....

[@MattGarcyaDC]

I kinda wanna learn how to use a piano someday

[@bhusk]

There’s a ted talk about how to learn anything in 24 hours. Lots of good learning tips there.

[@matthewsoules7064]

Who was it by?

[@Antoinethecool]

Thank u !

[@ferndog1461]

Can you point me? I been looking for that superpower for 40 years, now.

[@vladislavno]

@@matthewsoules7064 the first 20 hours by Josh Kaufman

[@vladislavno]

@@ferndog1461 see my other comment

[@PoconGaming]

I realised very early through different jobs that I have always been a quick learner. But I think a better way to put what he's trying to say is to work on the efficiency of your mind. I'm constantly thinking about efficiency in process and how I can be doing something better.

[@khalidelgazzar]

That's one hell of a video. Pure gold. Love those short and to the point videos. Thank you

[@Yzjoshuwave]

These short clips are often great, but the utility of this one really stands out for me. Really good stuff.

[@q-q-qiah]

What did you get out of it?

[@Tyzen7]

Learning is beautiful.... Knowledge is *everything*

[@Alan-ml8vq]

Damn this clip helped me a lot. Time to get codin

[@patrickwagner2978]

The word doesn't only mean punishment. Discipline - ▸ noun: training to improve strength or self-control

[@MrSimonw58]

Desperation to get out of the gutter

[@IsaacAsante17]

Learning how to learn. I agree completely.

[@Ankimuff]

Really interesting. Is there any clues to watch for so that you avoid the Dunning Kruger effect? Because on the surface, that would seem like the most obvious pitfall on a wider scale. Lots of love

[@11123fsd]

Incredibly important advice

[@Wil_Dasovich]

Real shit!

[@zoinksyoinks6919]

Yup

[@cambodianriverpig7613]

Learning to learn is worth millions if not billions of dollars.

[@evanparsons123]

the opening of Tim Ferris's book (I forget which one): "If you're fine sitting around waiting to die, this book is NOT for you"

[@relicofgold]

Tim Ferris is a jerk. He's a fad. Move along. Grow up.

[@ni6hantwork]

That's the reason I stopped gaming at all. I still watched movies or TV series for like hours until it was complete but the gaming was too much and after 1500 hours in CS, I just looked back at the time I spend and thought what would had happened if I olayed Badminton for 1500 hours or if I took a bunch of excel courses. So that's what I did. I spend like 100 hours on Excel, got a job. Then spent like 200 hours on learning PHP, got another job. Then spent 500+ hours on learning Java and got a permanent position that I liked.

[@GBlunted]

These clips are the best onramp to the full long form version! I was looking for, "deliberate practice" and this clip has me queue up the whole convo cause this clip makes the guy seem way more interesting than I imagined lol! Also, I feel like all you really need to do is add properly tagged timestamps, chapter titles, annotations or whatever they call them to the original long video and if done right then the direct link straight to the annotations will appear in the search results just like as if that chapter was cut out and is it's own video with Title and description and preview and all... Would save the hassle of having to add these 'Clips' as separate entities in your videography ya know?

[@JreTV-ib3en]

Life hack ... If you want to understand anything, just type it next to lex fridman & watch the shorts ... pure gold.

[@ChristopherFoderinghamGarraway]

This was extremely poignant and valuable at once. A lot of the time people learn the wrong things to get better. Focusing on the objectives you seek to attain is everything

[@JordiMuntada]

I do share the same view. Focus on the objectives over the skill per se. Then, you'll be learning skills on the direction you wan to go to.

[@here330]

So awesome Lex.

[@ankitkothawade603]

Cool ! I m implementing this...

[@IgnatiusCheese]

LISTEN TO THIS MAN

[@scofieldrk1]

well then im in luck, played video games my whole life and if theres one thing video games teach you, it is the ability to learn new systems and mechanics, apply whats known and learn whats new. now i only need to stop doing that 16 hours a day and im good to go

[@relicofgold]

Anyone can tell. you to "learn how to learn". They didn't tell you how to learn how to learn.

[@1MinuteFlipDoc]

logging off of youtube - got it! :) hahah

[@justinbroderick4126]

Great clip, deliberate practice is key like lime pie : )

[@onlybryanliu]

Damn this is gold. Never heard it put together like this

[@kickinon]

He said refind not refine lol. I'll stick to my books.

[@PixelPhobiac]

Preach!

[@robsimer9296]

Aside from talking what does Lex do, and is that why he is considered part of the IDW?

[@morganbentley7945]

He is not part of the IDW but he does research and lectures at MIT

[@JokerTheDank]

"you watched game of throne or breaking bad? Those are 200 hours you didn't learn something" then proceeds to discuss on a podcast how he was playing basketball in vacation and watching Queen's Gambit and playing chess

[@davidreese6519]

Missed the point. With a net worth of 100 million, he's already made it. That was advice for those who want to learn. Not advice to never consume entertainment.

[@vascoguerreiro341]

Interesting

[@elitecoder955]

I am giving me one month to learn Machine Learning and get job ready . Let's see if I can do it

[@adhiradeogade5523]

Yea, GRIT by Angela Duckworth tells the same.

[@DavidBaronStevensPersonal]

Know enough not to be bullshitted We strengthen our weaknesses, not our strengths

[@Siggipugger]

Yes but how do you learn to learn to learn

[@manateerising]

I’ve never seen someone have to remind me so often why I should care what they’re saying, while they’re saying it. Communicate good points effectively and you won’t need an instruction manual.

[@loganluck8995]

I always thought in these terms

[@WIM42GNU]

Nonsense it's not capitalism, there is Lichess. Otherwise great interview!

[@zemadeiran]

Who Watches The Watchers?

[@AllCarsUnited]

Any soccer player fans, this is the mind of Cristiano Ronaldo

[@MattGarcyaDC]

How?

[@samuelbrown7831]

Metacognition

[@samone487]

Fluid intelligence.

[@strawberryego6669]

1:35 / 5:50 Why don’t you watch it again (seven times) to study human behavior in power games across time, read the books, listen to the books THEN teach yourself to code and become a graphic designer. Sleep is for the weak 🤓

[@harshareddy2179]

Lichess gives all of them for free 🤷

[@yevengyklaus7066]

This!! This!!

[@MrSimonw58]

10,000 hours ... 10,000 focused hours of concentration

[@tissues2441]

But how do I learn how to learn how to learn

[@PippyPappyPatterson]

Check out the coursera course Learning How To Learn (by prof. Barbara Oakley I think?) She also has a book called A Mind For Numbers that is also great. I also highly recommend the Huberman Lab podcast as well as the spaced repetition system Anki.

[@alfredgalustian8042]

This is Andrea Ericsson’s work

[@chetanrawatji]

❤❤

[@marlonduranleau2659]

Found the cheat sheet boys: What is the one skill worth having? The ability to become good at learning new skills, and to add those skills to your arsenal of skills. Who is a great example of skill acquisition? Tim Ferris. What parallel is Jason Calacanis drawing between basketball and learning? To learn any skill, you must study it through close observation, and correct your form. What should you not do? Do not waste time watching TV shows. All those hours could have been spent on acquiring a new skill. Is it always about putting in the hours? No, it’s about deliberate practice i.e., it’s not just about performing a behavior, but rather the intensity of that behavior within a given time frame. Instead of moving on to play “the next game”, what should you be doing? Reviewing your losses and figuring out what mistakes you’ve made. What is a powerful primal human force worth considering? Competition, the need to win, to have it your way, no matter what.

[@american_ape]

What’s the name of the Magnus Carlson chess app that Lex was talking about?

[@american_ape]

Never mind, I found it. It’s called Magnus Trainer

[@JellyTradestheMarket]

lichess is free by the way

[@yaghiyahbrenner8902]

You cannot learn subject matter in 40 hours, you see it takes a certain amount of years for the brain to develop abstractions to carry out problem solving no matter, currently the world is flooded with the impulse of short learnings (learn graphic design), this is not learning this is superficial knowledge spreading, Lex should know this well, think of reinforced learning.. think of the "rate we learn from mistakes vs a computer" for us humans learning to master takes time. The question is what is the aim of this short term learning.?

[@deoooocc2499]

I did taekwondo yaya !

[@AKrishnaAkhil]

And that is why you use lichess. Free and open source.

[@eaf888]

🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

[@ahgoon69er]

Did it go from learning how to learn to a capitalism ad ?

[@korrakoanashi7551]

Wasn't he in resident evil?

[@6511497115104]

how about practicing your chess instead of watching the queen's gambit

[@ferndog1461]

If learning is so easy, why do Journalists object to being told to transition to another line of work? The advice, " Learn to Code ", was made into a slander phrase on social Media. Apprenticeship to becoming a journeyman takes time. The worst part when the average slow poke bubba becomes a journeyman, the market is saturated & / or technology has eliminated that need. And folks wonder why so many folks are filing for SSA disability beginning in their 50's. Britain got rid of slavery, not for humanitarian reasons, but so that peasants could get jobs. North American People need jobs. We need to build things here. We need to stop spending all our $$ in overseas markets. Peace.

[@eugkra33]

Tim Ferris looks like a guy that works out every day. The idea that he's never shot before seems crazy. I feel like he was faking.

[@Iamrich00]

i work out everyday and i didn't know what a basketball looked like till now. lol jk, but i do workout and im bizarre at soccer... the fact that you work out has NOTHING to do with your ability or skill on a sport, especially when you're grown up and not a teenager

[@genghisrex]

We all due respect, this person sounds a bit like Jordan Peterson.

[@1MinuteFlipDoc]

capitalism is a loaded word. means a bunch of different things to different people.

[@connorpeppermint8635]

Working 40-50 hours a week and I've previously attempted to teach myself Japanese and now I'm trying coding. Shits not easy and it's annoying to hear him be so flippant about it. I'm not struggling per Se but most people around me are having a much harder time

[@thevinve1593]

IRL sharingan

[@blake9541]

While I agree and want people to learn ALL the skills, this isn't capitalism... modern capitalism has turned corporations into monopolies who, like Micheal Jordan, will do anything to win - destroy the environment, decimate small communities, and even kill people in 3rd world countries. This whole mindset of win-win is egotistical and unstable. Perhaps we should be developing markets without incentivizing competition and "winning." A place where everyone benefits, instead of just the one 1%. Trade secrets and patents on lifesaving technology are slowly poisoning any chance we have at solving climate change. This misunderstanding of capitalist rhetoric is dangerous.

[@rasputozen]

capitalists: "Competition is the source of everything good in the world." me: "Cool! Let's test out competing economic systems on a small scale to see if they can get similar results or better." capitalists: "No."

[@RAWDOGG69]

50% my ass...can he snap his jab?

[@RizztrainingOrder]

This guy preaching capitalism and using companies as examples that are notorious for buying smaller companies to NOT have competition...smh

[@stevenneal3960]

The irony about his Elon Musk analogy with electric cars is that there was absolutely no EV competition whatsoever. Elon was not competing with traditional automakers, he was innovating in the renewable energy space without impedance. The monopoly his company holds is evidence of this, even with all of his open patent technology.

[@Veritas0589]

Yes, but retaining what you learned is the harder part. If I don't do what I've learned nearly every day, I forget how to do it quickly. It's very disheartening.

[@SwerveBlurr]

Muscle memory, it takes a fraction of the time it took to learn to relearn.

[@pinny492]

theres no point trying to refine your learning skills. the ability to learn is inborn, genetically inherited. Some are born good learners, and some are born bad learners. Nothing going to change that. The only way you will ever progress highly is if you are born with that ability.