how to study and learn really difficult subjects: 1. don’t panic. hard just means dense. it’s not impossible, it’s just packed. unwrap it slowly. 2. get a map before diving in. watch an overview video, read the table of contents, or skim the wikipedia page. you need context
@oprydai Excellent! Your list here is the most succinct and comprehensive writing about learning hard subjects that I’ve seen in my long life (I’m 73 years old). Thanks a lot. I’ve copied this text in several places so I can come across it sometimes and reread it.
@oprydai How to learn First step Read 3 books
@oprydai TLDR; PATIENCE CONSISTENCY PERSEVERANCE
@oprydai Will pass this along to my discrete math students!
@oprydai This smells like AI but i love it so much idc
@oprydai Also learn non-linearly. Most people go A → B → C → D. But the brain learns faster when you explore everything from the start , a bit of A, B, C, D every day while allocating Small chunks of time, That’s how understanding becomes instinct, not memory
@oprydai so well put 👏🏾🤌🏾
@oprydai To clarify, this doesn't always apply. For some subjects - like philosophy - everyone is kinda just stuck in fog all the time. Not to say that's a bad thing. Confusion and doubt is just fundamental to our field. If there wasn't fog we wouldn't be studying it so closely.
@oprydai I really like this. In fact, I like it well enough to want to share with my students. How would you like to be cited? Is a reference to this post enough or would your prefer a link to a main site?
@oprydai Just don’t equate learning a subject with solving its problems. Otherwise you may find yourself trying to solve something that is unsolvable.
@oprydai 1 ask Chatgpt 2 understand missing parts 3 done
@oprydai Good
@oprydai la NASA recherche plein de types comme toi, pour les envoyer sur MARS ! ne rate surtout pas l'occasion . . .
@oprydai “Stay long enough in the fog until it clears” ❤️
@oprydai Dude your post keep me motivated as a self learner .
@oprydai Thank you for taking the time to give a detailed explanation.
@oprydai This is surprisingly well pointed and thought out. A rarity these days on this platform. Thanks
@oprydai "Time is of the essence."
@oprydai Kalemin modeli nedir?
@oprydai Needed this. Learning astronomy rn
@oprydai so true! 100%
@oprydai there's a couple small issues in some of these effective studying has generally been solved for some reason it's just not that well known further reading for the curious: https://shaeda.blog/p/new-stud...
@oprydai Calculus isn't difficult. People just make it difficult and are lazy to even try.

