<story><title>Learning to Learn</title><url>http://simpleprogrammer.com/2012/09/23/learning-to-learn/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>_exec</author><text>Does anybody have any (other and more thorough) resources for &apos;learning how to learn&apos;? Perhaps book suggestions? One of my goals is to become an autodictact / polymath and I&apos;m seeking way to make the process of acquiring new data / skills / learning more time-efficient and more organized (and systematic).&lt;p&gt;Are there any kind of &apos;learning theories/strategies&apos; out there? I&apos;m not seeking resources per se (I know about Khan academy, MIT OCW, &apos;bookportals&apos; on Tor etc), but rather some sort of systematic method similar to the one described in the link but perhaps more detailed and (maybe) anecdote-/experience-based.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kriro</author><text>The Pragmatic Programmers have a book on learning called &quot;Pragmatic Thinking and Learning&quot;. I own it and would highly recommend it, one of the more underrated books. It covers the Dreyfus learning model which was mentioned in the article.&lt;p&gt;The examples and language tend to be programming related (for example one chapter is titled &quot;Debugging your Brain&quot; iirc) because that&apos;s the intended audience but I&apos;d also recomend it for non-programmers.&lt;p&gt;Very good blend of theory (Dreyfus model, r-/l-mode) and practical advice on how to improve your learning and generally use your brain better.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pragprog.com/book/ahptl/pragmatic-thinking-and-learning&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://pragprog.com/book/ahptl/pragmatic-thinking-and-learni...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Learning to Learn</title><url>http://simpleprogrammer.com/2012/09/23/learning-to-learn/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>_exec</author><text>Does anybody have any (other and more thorough) resources for &apos;learning how to learn&apos;? Perhaps book suggestions? One of my goals is to become an autodictact / polymath and I&apos;m seeking way to make the process of acquiring new data / skills / learning more time-efficient and more organized (and systematic).&lt;p&gt;Are there any kind of &apos;learning theories/strategies&apos; out there? I&apos;m not seeking resources per se (I know about Khan academy, MIT OCW, &apos;bookportals&apos; on Tor etc), but rather some sort of systematic method similar to the one described in the link but perhaps more detailed and (maybe) anecdote-/experience-based.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xenophanes</author><text>Learn epistemology (the philosophy of learning).&lt;p&gt;Most stuff in the field is bad (worse than useless). Start with this book:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://beginningofinfinity.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://beginningofinfinity.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Karl Popper&apos;s books are good too.&lt;p&gt;Epistemology is the long term route. No instant results, but useful for everything and very efficient in the long run. That&apos;s the best way if you plan to learn about many things to be a polymath.&lt;p&gt;And for discussion of autodidact stuff, ask your questions on this email list:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/taking-children-seriously&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/taking-ch...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&apos;ve already done this stuff. Feel free to email me curi@curi.us</text></comment>