Classic Episode: How Do I Learn Hard Things? | Monday Advice

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The problem with this well known advice, however, is that More meaningful activities Are hard. And then make them a part of your life, you have to therefore become comfortable mastering hard things. And in a world of easy dopamine.

Well, that's a task that we have gotten pretty bad at. Well Today I wanna help you. So back in Two thousand twenty four, actually on New Year's Day of Twenty Twenty Four, Um, I released an episode in which I talked through a detailed approach for how to learn hard things. I started with uh giving you a new mental model for thinking about learning, and then went on to give step by step advice for how to actually

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