If the primary purpose of school was education, the Internet should obsolete it. But school is mainly about credentialing.

I think learning should be about learning the basics in all the fields and learning them really well over and over.

The overeducated are worse off than the undereducated, for they traded common sense for the illusion of knowledge.

I use my tweets and other people’s tweets as maxims that help compress my own learnings and be able to recall them.

Knowledge is a skyscraper. You can take a shortcut with a fragile foundation of memorization, or build slowly upon a steel frame of understanding.

When you’re memorizing something, it’s an indication that you don’t understand it. You should be able to re-derive anything on the spot and if you can’t, you don’t know it.

When you’re memorizing something, it’s an indication that you don’t understand it. You should be able to re-derive anything on the spot and if you can’t, you don’t know it.

If you learn how to learn, it’s the ultimate meta skill and I believe you can learn how to be healthy, you can learn how to be fit, you can learn how to be happy, you can learn how to have good relationships, you can learn how to be successful.

On learning anything (happiness, losing weight, etc.): You decide it’s important to you. You prioritize it above everything else. You read everything on the topic.

The only way to truly learn something is by doing it. Yes, listen to guidance. But don’t wait.

I don’t [try to stay focused]. I follow my interest.

Study microeconomics, game theory, psychology, persuasion, ethics, mathematics, and computers.

Basically the library was my after school center.

If you’re struggling through a subject, unless you need it for graduation, drop it. Go learn something that you want to learn.

Giving your kids everything prevents them from finding themselves.

Specific knowledge can’t be taught, but can be learned.

Knowledge workers train, sprint, rest, and re-assess. Inspiration is perishable – act on it immediately. Be impatient with actions but patient with results.

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

The doer alone learneth.

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.