Learning Tips | Original
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Treat learning as a hobby by approaching with playfulness and genuine interest.
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Learn through practice and repetition until mastery comes through hands-on experience.
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Use daily immersion by engaging with the subject regularly in natural contexts.
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Follow your genuine interests because passion leads to better learning outcomes.
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Draw from multiple sources whenever you need simpler explanations.
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Persist through difficulties by taking breaks and seeking inspiration from peers.
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Maintain consistent engagement instead of relying on cramming sessions.
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Create opportunities to actively apply what you’re learning.
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Make learning practical by connecting it to real-life applications.
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Remember that learning comes naturally through play and exploration.
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Learn with AI tools, ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini.
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Use multiple languages to ask AI tools questions.
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Use YouTube, YouTube shorts or TikTok to search for video explanations.
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Download YouTube courses to listen to while driving, try to recall or imagine what you listen to.
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Emotions come and go - when you can’t focus, try using other ways to learn, or do something else, then come back.
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It is ok to not fully understand a question or paragraph in one go - just skip it and try to understand it next time, or the time after that.
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In school, I learned by listening to teachers and doing exercises. After leaving school, I learned by doing work, projects and pursuing hobbies. Reflect on how you learned things in the past. Use those methods to learn current matters.
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Action produces information. Just move forward to learn new things.
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Take exams, interviews, certificates, finish tasks to achieve excellence.
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Do not just watch videos of the subjects pretending to understand.
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Most of the time you think you have already prepared well, but actually haven’t. Aim high to achieve middle results. Aim for middle to achieve low results.
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Sleep well. Take naps if tired.
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Attitude or motivation is hard to lie to yourself about. Follow your true passion.
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Environment is important. You don’t need to learn English hard if you grow up in English-speaking countries.
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Your brain is powerful. Think things through by yourself. Think again and again, time after time.
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Grab the essence or principle of things to learn. For example, machine learning is about calculus, and startups are about making something people want.
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You don’t need to learn something to prove yourself to others. New discoveries take time to become popular. Your abilities take time to become truly good. Others will then notice.
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Learning is mainly about trying new things or thinking in new ways. Keep exploring.
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To learn is to better enjoy life. For example, learning a new language is like opening a new world.
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When learning a subject, directly approaching the core concepts or doing the final exam exercises is okay. You can learn backward to the fundamental things. A hard start leads to an easy end. Quickly overcome the fear or discomfort associated with new knowledge.
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Teach or share what you learn to others, one piece at a time. No matter how technical or sophisticated it is, share it with your companion, friends, or even street buddies.
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Write blogs, make videos, or create other content to share. People are narcissistic. By reviewing what you create, you will notice imperfections. That will give you the urge to improve.
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Learn the history of things, like some specific math, electricity, or programming. It shows how things develop and the strong reasons for the order in which they appear. These parts are what textbooks miss.
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Often, if you learn a topic and encounter some difficulty, just repeat watching a video, listening to it, or reading materials about it around 20 times—it can have a magical effect. As June Huh said, repetition has some beauty.