wiki/notebook/2020-07-08-22-42-47.org
Gabriel Arazas b088086b06 Merge evergreen notes into the notebook
Now, it's all under the notebook umbrella. Seems to be appropriate as it
is just my notes after all.

I also updated some notes from there. I didn't keep track of what it is
this time. Something about more learning notes extracted from my
"Learning how to learn" course notes and then some. Lack of time and
hurriness just makes it difficult to track but it should be under
version control already.
2021-07-21 16:28:07 +08:00

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Learning a new skill often starts from specific places

We often Start with wishful thinking. Thus, most would start learning with the top-bottom approach (i.e., specific to general topics).

Documenting this process, the core of Skill-building has the following workflow.

  • Document your specific example (e.g., a website, a drawing, a 3D scene). You can Refer to advanced resources when skill-building for a solid short-term goal to clear your specific example similar to a final proof-reading before you submit your paper.
  • Then, try to learn the specific example. For a start, you can Write down the simplest possible example.
  • For every unknown part of the example, try to understand the underlying concepts. If the underlying concept is not yet understood, then dig deeper into understanding the underlying concept of that underlying concept ad infinitum.
  • With the tree of to-be-understood underlying concepts, take a peek between each underlying concepts of various depths until you can easily see the connections between them.
  • Work your way up the knowledge tree you've just created until you can reproduce/create the example with your newfound hierarchical knowledge.

The key idea is to Create roadmaps to stay on track. Normally, we do the above process subconciously but to explicitly write tasks and projects that we want to tackle can lessen the burden.