Learning

• Andy Matuschak argues that storytelling is an especially effective way to learn.

• Deliberate Practice is especially effective because the repeat stimulation of specific neural pathways speeds up the myelination of those neurons.

  When you first start to study a field, it seems like you have to memorize a zillion things. You don’t. What you need is to identify the core principles – generally three to twelve of them – that govern the field. The million things you thought you had to memorize are simply various combinations of the core principles.

  — John Reed (see First Principles)