Beginners - The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning - Tom Vanderbilt
Summary
- One mans effort later on in life to start learning multiple new skills and what he learned about learning from it.
How I discovered it
- Recommendation from a friend
How the book changed me
- I have always enjoyed learning, so perhaps change is not the right word, but reinforced my desire to continue learning new things as long as i Can
Details
- Just practising a lot doesnt automatically mean that you will improve: The importance of Analysis to improve
- Epistemically unique experiences can only be experienced in order to understand them
- Nobel laureates more likely to dabble in other interests
- Fast pace of technology requires perpetual learning
- Those whose work is their pleasure need a break - Winston Churchill
- Everyone is expected to maximise their potential, especially with social media
- Learning with others is more effective
- Learn from how kids learn: Infants are not discouraged by failure
- Learning skills takes time
- Variable practise helps learn better
- Love of music does not support theory of evolution
- The human voice is an amazing instrument
- Progress is rarely linear
- Social facilitation - we learn better with company
- Positive feedback works better than criticism
- Drawing a vital skill like reading
- We find it hard to draw what we see
Quotes
- Man progresses in all things by making a fool of himself
- You have to learn to learn - learn to unlearn and learn to re-learn - Ravi Kumar
- Only doing what you are good at is a trap - Tim Wu
- Difference between science and engineering