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Episode 4173:
James Altucher explains how the back half of his learning system compresses the ten thousand hour rule into something reachable. He argues that failure is the most useful teacher available, that energy across physical, emotional, creative and spiritual health decides how much learning is even possible, and that improving one percent a day compounds into a thirty-eight fold gain in a year. The closing step is the plainest one: reading about a skill is not the same as practicing it.
Read along with the original article(s) here: https://archive.jamesaltucher.com/blog/seven-steps-learn-master-anything/
Quotes to ponder:
"Without energy, you can't learn."
"You can't learn as much from succeeding because it's harder to pinpoint where mistakes are"
"One percent a day = 3800 percent a year."
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