7 Tips For Learning Anything On Your Own

Learning things on your own is hard. Maybe these tips will help. 00:00 Introduction 00:42 How to make specific learning goals 2:03 What are the key skills? 3:21 Gathering learning resources 4:02 A note on scheduling 4:48 Making the best use of feedback 8:12 Watch out for time-sensitive learning goals 10:15 When to make a change Sign up to my email newsletter, Avoiding Folly, here: REFERENCES On creating meaningful learning goals, see: , from the Carl Weiman Science Initiative To read more about metacognition and illusions of knowing, see: Avhustiuk, M. M., Pasichnyk, I. D., & Kalamazh, R. V. (2018). The illusion of knowing in metacognitive monitoring: Effects of the type of information and of personal, cognitive, metacognitive, and individual psychological characteristics. Europe’s Journal of Psychology, 14(2), 317.