The Hard Thing About Learning Hard Things
> Choose to look stupid: When you’re faking it, most of what you learn is just how to fake better
> Ask the third question: Most people give up when they're unable to grasp an opaque response, they assume they don’t know enough to evaluate the answer. Asking the third question requires courage
> Immerse yourself: Your brain was designed over millennia of evolution to soak up statistical patterns from its environment—whatever it needs to survive, communicate, and ascend a social hierarchy. But your brain needs stakes, and it needs to be immersed in enough raw information to extract patterns
> Double down on your strengths: Exploit your strengths and double down on them. People often self-select themselves out of usefulness, believing that their strengths aren’t useful in a new domain. They’re almost always wrong.
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