Study Like A Kaleidoscope

If you want to really learn something—bone-deep, muscle-memory, soul-synced kind of learning—you’ve got to come at it like a kaleidoscope: twist, tilt, flip it upside-down. Stare at it from all sides until the patterns start to make sense, even the ugly ones.

Read the book. Watch the video. Talk to a friend. Argue with a stranger. Draw it, build it, break it. Teach it to your dog. Teach it to your skeptical future self. Use every tool in the box, especially the ones you’ve never felt good holding. Those are the ones that sharpen your brain the most, because they make you sweat. And anything that makes you sweat, teaches.

You don’t get strong doing only the exercises you’re good at. And you don’t get wise sticking to only the ways you already think.

Watch the tutorial, but also try failing without it.

Listen to the lecture, but also record your own.

Write the notes, doodle the diagrams, mumble the definitions while brushing your teeth.

Learning, it turns out, isn’t a one-lane road. It’s a circus tent of colorful insights.

Stay Positive & How You Perform Doesn’t Make You The Pro; How You Study Does

Garth Beyer

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