Become a Learning Machine, to Get Exactly What You Want (Faster)
Execute while you learn. Starting > Waiting
School teaches us to be learning idiots.
We spend most of our days practicing memorization of facts that we’ll probably never use. School dulled my brain down.
It killed the natural spark of creativity I had for music because, according to the school career counselor, “It doesn’t pay well, Timothy.”
A person who is a learning machine has recoded their school brain.
Their mind is open and curious again. They learn one new thing per day. They don’t seek to become a master of a topic quickly or get a Ph.D. in it. Instead, they seek to learn 1% more every day on stuff they’re passionate about.
The #1 trait of a person who is a learning machine is that self-education is a habit. They don’t wait to get told.
They learn on their own, quietly, after hours.
None of us, especially me, are born learning machines. Over the last 5 years I’ve spent a stupid amount of time learning. It’s why I can write 40+ articles a month and not run out of ideas.
Here’s how I became a learning machine and you can too (or level up if you’re already on your way).