Classic Episode: How Do I Learn Hard Things? | Monday Advice

0:00Do you want to declare freedom from all of your distracting devices?

0:04Well, we know what the best strategy is here.

0:06You need to replace that mindless scrolling and passive consumption with more meaningful and rewarding activities.

0:13This will literally rewire your brain to find your phone less interesting than these other more ambitious pursuits.

0:22The problem with this well-known advice, however, is that more meaningful activities are hard.

0:30And to make them a part of your life, you have to therefore become comfortable mastering hard things.

0:37And in a world of easy dopamine, well, that's a task that we have gotten pretty bad at.

0:44Well, today I want to help you.

0:46So back in 2024, actually on New Year's Day of 2024, I released an episode in which I talked through a detailed approach for how to learn hard things.

0:58I started with giving you a new mental model for thinking about learning and then went on to give step-by-step advice for how to actually accomplish the goal of mastering, whether it's a really complicated craft or mathematics or music appreciation, whatever that hard thing is, here's exactly how you do it.