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

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Jason Calacanis is an angel investor, entrepreneur, and co-host of All-In Podcast and This Week in Startups.

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[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!

[STS]

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.

[Majnun]

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!

[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.

[neoTriny]

This clip was one of the best of lex discussions

[jacksonmorris-thring]

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

[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. ...

[beachchickensmedia]

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

[khalidelgazzar]

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

[TheJagjr]

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.

[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.

[Yzjoshuwave]

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

[bhusk]

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

[Alan-mlvq]

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

[IsaacAsante]

Learning how to learn. I agree completely.

[patrickwagner]

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

[Tyzen]

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

[nihantwork]

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.

[cambodianriverpig]

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

[evanparsons]

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"