Learning is at the core of almost everything we do. From the mundane like cleaning or organizing our days, to our jobs, to our leisure activities, we are usually have to go through a learning process to become proficient.
Although we need to learn, we aren't really taught how to learn. Schools are a big reason for this. In these settings we are lectured at to and told what to do; we use this as a model for learning. But its effectiveness is quite limited. Growing up I always wished I knew how to do so many different things. I wished that I could draw, play music, write computer programs, invent new things, but almost always felt very lost.
In college I ended up becoming a cognitive science major. I learnt about different mechanisms and theories about learning, and at the same time I started analyzing how to thought processes worked, and ultimately how we learn.
Over the past decade, from figuring things out, I ended up teaching myself web development (my current full-time job), piano (~7th grade), how to climb to the top ranks of several video games, among other things.
This content is not about spouting the virtues of hard work, perseverance, or any type of motivational speeches. Instead it's about giving you a new set of tools thinking about activities and learning itself. This is what I wish I knew when I had just started high school or even college.
This site will be broken up into three types of content.
The introductory course will go over the high level ideas and principles to help you think about learning. We will look at ideas such as perception learning, learning output, and problem types.
While it's useful to understand ideas theoretically, to make good use of things, we need to see them play out in real situations, and apply them personally to our own learnings. In each one of these examples we will see principles, techniques, and frameworks being employed.
One problem with lots of learning materials is that it has to assume that you don't know anything and so the basics are constantly repeated. However, rather than repeat these principles in each example, these examples will point to the theory. These concepts can be consumed as either high-level concepts or in depth depending on your level of interest.
In other words, the content here is designed be consumed at your own pace. Unlike many courses in which the pacing is either too fast or too slow, content is fast by default, but supporting material will linked and easily accessible.