How to learn more deeply.

published on 13 August 2024

🖇️ Learning more deeply means connecting, not narrowing.

You should broaden and link your interests!

📌 Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis:

languages with multiple words for a concept lead speakers to pay more attention to certain distinctions.

Thus understanding a certain topic from more angles. More deeply.

📈I truly believe this is applies to life in general.

It’s logical that hyper-specialization is great and mandatory for a well functioning developed society.

To learn more deeply practice elaboration:

➡️ give new knowledge new meaning by actively (speak, write, think) integrating it and connecting it with what you already know.

⚠️ It’s not supposed to be easy! 

🤯 The more effortful it feels, the better. 

This helps you learn better, faster and more deeply. It compounds on itself.

🏔️ Inuit languages, spoken in Greenland, Alaska, Siberia, capture snow and weather through various angles—color, temperature, texture, conditions, and environmental interaction—allowing for a nuanced and deeper understanding of their Arctic surroundings.

Don’t get me wrong but I find it much more exciting to be able to mix up a couple areas of expertise. 

There is of course a limit, choose wisely.

💬 The more we interleave topics and understand them at a decent level, the more we are able to comprehend the world.

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