learning

People perform this or that kind of learning throughout their lives for all sorts of reasons. To keep up with their interests, maintaining social relationships, navigating the daily routines of their lives, etc. Learning in this sense is as quotidian an activity as dining and people engage in this activity in intricate ways, either by the nature of their jobs (so called knowledge workers) or simply their own curiosity. There are several ways that people approach learning, such as the unstructured learning that occurs over considerable time intervals across multiple domains, startegic skill making through apprenticeship, or self-learning. Regardless of the approach you use or the goal you want to achieve, there should be general principles, approaches, and strategies that one can use that can reduce the anxiety and risk involved in learning

spaced repetition

You can leverage the Spacing Effect phenomenon as a technique to learn things that you know are of value to your future self

Reasoning behind the practise

There are several interesting articles on the internet such as the Literature Review and Techniques from Gwern, Mullen on Memory Study Hacks, and Michael Nielsen on Augmenting Long-Term Memory

Strategy and Technique

Learn research papers, textbooks, and the like by making Anki notes on top of notes/work produced while learning the Technical Material. A model for the same in mathematics is described by Michael Nielsen in SR for Maths

theory of learning

MOOC offered by Barbara Oakley and Terrence Sejnowski Learning how to Learn provides some interesting terms such as chunking

Why books don't work by Andy Matushak recommends readers to learn specific reflective strategies (metacognition) such as asking "How should I summarise what I'm reading?"

Core Ideas

The 2 primary modes of thinking are focused & diffused
Concepts, ideas have associations, hierarchies, and usually come together in chunks (relate to networks of neurons)
Conceptual chunks related to each other through Meaning
Working memory maybe 4-Sloted & scratchpad like
Long term memory may be clunk & warehouse like
Meta cognition can change cognition

Behavioural Ideas

Sleep is really important to long term memory formation
You can learn by doing → Active Engagement
Exercise can invoke thinking paths, environment can register memories (like in the memory palace technique) → Embodied Cognition
Focused practise and repetition over time builds understanding

Note: hard to vary explanations missing for some of these ideas

Memory Palaces & Ancient Techniques

Embodied Cognition running on Ancient Memory Architectures