Life is all about relationships. Once our basic needs are met we move on to things like love, belonging, and self-actualization. Just like the reactivity of elements are defined by the number of valences, the more relationships we have the more opportunity we have to interact with other people. The more interactions we have the more opportunities for learning, that is if we allow it. >“Learning is necessary for our success and personal growth. But we can’t maximize the time we spend learning because our feelings about what we ‘should’ be doing get in the way.” >-Shane Parrish, *[Learning Baggage](https://fs.blog/learning-baggage/)* Self-Serving bias gets in the way of accurately [[Fielding Outcomes|fielding outcomes]] and learning. [[Truth-Seeking]] is a practice that aides learning and requires humility. >Learning is deep wisdom that allows you to create, innovate, and push boundaries. The best way to counter our own self-serving bias is through our network of relationships. As we share our outcomes with others we can learn from their feedback and experience and our friends will keep us honest. We also have the opportunity to share our experience with others to help them and help ourselves. ## Learning Prerequisites The learning process is on of trial and error: we try something, observe the outcome, and hopefully learn from it. This process requires two things: 1. Regularity and Speed of Feedback 2. Opportunity for Iteration and Practice Irregularity inhibits learning because the lessons we learn from experience may not be valid. Learning is a process and like any process it requires time and resources for repetition to improve. Through iteration we can increase our confidence in the validity of our learned knowledge and we can improve our skills and acquire expertise. ## Feynman Technique [The Feynman Learning Technique](https://fs.blog/feynman-learning-technique/) >Information is learned when you can explain it and use it in a wide variety of situations. >“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.” > >-E.F. Schumacher Four steps to the Feynman Technique: 1. Pretend to teach a concept you want to learn about to a sixth grader 2. Identify gaps in your explanation. Go back to the source material to better understand it. 3. Organize and simplify 4. Transmit(optional) >The truth is, **if you can’t clearly and simply define the words and terms you are using, you don’t really know what you’re talking about.** ## Failure as the path to Learning >“One of the beauties of hunting and fishing,” Rinella writes in his book Outdoor Kids _in an Inside World_, “is that they force kids to reckon with failure and to struggle against their own impatience.” > >Being cold and wet. Being bored. Being tired. Being quiet. Screwing up. These things are difficult for a kid. > >Making hard decisions. Facing life and death. Doing everything right and coming up empty. These things are difficult for _anyone._. >[It’s Good Practice](https://dailydad.com/its-good-practice/) ## Looking Foolish >A huge obstacle to success is a fear of appearing foolish. > >When we learn to walk, we fall over and over again until we can do it. We look foolish until the minute we don't. That is how we learn. As adults we often tell ourselves that failing in front of other people is bad, so we don't try things that might make us look foolish. > >During boom times, people who aggressively went all in appear to be prospering and make a more financially stable approach seem foolish. Only those who were properly positioned, however, can take advantage when the boom ends. > >So much advantage in life comes from being willing to look foolish in the short term. >*Shane Parrish, Farnam Street* ## Accelerated Learning [Learn Faster and Remember More](https://fs.blog/learning/) **Case Studies** - [CHG Issue #118: The Principle-Agent Problem](https://cedarshillgroup.substack.com/p/chg-issue-118-the-principal-agent) - [CHG Issue #66: Mental Flexibility](https://cedarshillgroup.substack.com/p/issue-66-mental-flexibility) - [CHG Issue #56: Bayes' Theorem](https://cedarshillgroup.substack.com/p/march-07th-2022) - [CHG Issue #30: Hunters, Gatherers, and Innovators](https://cedarshillgroup.substack.com/p/chg-issue-30-hunters-gatherers-and) - [CHG Issue #29: The Art of Learning](https://cedarshillgroup.substack.com/p/chg-issue-29-the-art-of-learning) Explore Further: [[Knowledge]] | [[The Art of Learning]] | [[Thinking in Bets]] Tags: #Practices Your support for Cedars Hill Group is greatly appreciated <form action="https://www.paypal.com/donate" method="post" target="_top"> <input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="74PGN8ZXHQVHS" /> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donate_LG.gif" border="0" name="submit" title="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!" alt="Donate with PayPal button" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1" /> </form>