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The concepts of learning, unlearning, and relearning belong in every futurist’s repertoire in the sense that we need to learn our bias for progress, unlearn its primacy as a societal objective, and relearn that the human condition is best served by achieving homeostasis–steady equilibrium.

Medium • Welcome to Terranascient Futures Studies & Foresight

Learning in the early phases of a skill is an act of accumulation. You acquire new facts, knowledge, and skills to handle problems you didn’t know how to solve before. Getting better, however, increasingly becomes an act of unlearning; not only must you learn to solve problems you couldn’t before, you must unlearn stale and ineffective approaches f

Scott Young • Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career

In one way, it is easier to be inexperienced: you don’t have to learn what is no longer relevant. Experience, on the other hand, creates two distinct struggles: the first is to identify and unlearn what is no longer necessary (that’s work, too). The second is to remain open-minded, patient, and willing to engage with what’s new, even if it resemble... See more

Frank Chimero • Everything Easy is Hard Again

Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career

Metalearning: First Draw a Map.
- Why? Inspiring SMART goal.
- What? A good way to do this is to write down on a sheet of paper three columns with the headings “Concepts,” “Facts,” and “Procedures.”
- How? What are the typical ways of learning this subject or skill (bench

Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential

Barbara Oakley

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Designing a Self-Directed Learning Network: Work-in-Progress V0.1

Winnie Lim winnielim.org

Learning must become a habit (see Ergodicity and destiny) that is applied to all aspects of life before it can be said that a person is truly an educated person. This means that learning never stops.

Jacob Lund Fisker • Early Retirement Extreme: A philosophical and practical guide to financial independence

Undoing our understanding of something is even harder when it’s tied in some way to our identity. Growing up I was “Rachel the swimmer” but here I was 30 years later realizing my stroke was not great. I was fast and strong but not efficient or graceful.

The whole experience was so fascinating that it led me to dive deeper into the neuroplasticity in... See more

Rethink: The power of learning to unlearn

problems can look trivial or excruciating depending on your past experience. Learning is the process of acquiring patterns in memory that help us cross that chasm.