That's how you should be imo 😃

@SaintBizzle I kinda hate my job because over there there are super normies who thinks it's gonna be a hard challenge to learn how to operate a robotic welding arm where they mostly just push a few buttons and mounts the parts to be welded on and off. He says he's too old to learn.

But I know that's BS and only mindset.

And the reality is that he probably has no concept at all of the mechanics behind learning as a process.

One of my coworkers didn't know what USB is and he's 21, he doesn't know what a fuse is, didn't know what an honor killing was, he believes in ghosts, one older lady at work wanted me to come home to her and transfer photos from her phone to the pc.

Because it's somehow hard.

I've heard of the concept of meta-learning, but never really understood it. To me it's just a matter of discipline and figuring out how to have fun with the material.

Yeah, having fun accelerates learning.

To remember something.

That's hilarious. Try to think of it like this - you were like a hero in a story, and the NPCs had to come to you to get the job done!

"having fun accelerates learning" I believe it one hundred percent. There's nothing like frustration to shut the mind down!

Yeah.

I'm actually writing a book about metacognition it's essentially the same thing as metacognition.

https://i.imgur.com/YmZfW50.jpg

My metacognitive ability enabled this.

My first ever attempt at making a sculpture in clay.

I could do it that well the first time because I've learned how learning works 😎

I'm impressed, that's really, really good!

How will you distribute this book? Through Amazon?

Then applied the same thinking to everything, taught myself math at 27 and had to attend a special needs class in math during compulsory school because of a cognitive disability that resulted in me only having 80 IQ points on the working memory which is essential for mathematical ability.

But thanks to metacognitive thinking and a great desire to improve and learn, always was extremely curious as well. Those things enabled me to learn the way I do.

So now I can calculate the geometric distance between any number of abstract concepts that might have 48 dimensions, and still you can compute the distance with more dimensions than exists in the 3d space we can percieve. Things I was told I could never do 😄

I'm happy I didn't listen to the teachers that told me something I was interested in learning was impossible or too hard to learn. They didn't have a concept of the mechanics behind learning what so ever.

I had a similar situation, although I can't do what you just mentioned

I was very unmotivated to excel in school

But I've learned some technical things on my own

@SaintBizzle haven't decided yet but Amazon looks like a prime target because it's the largest retail store in North America right?

People like us always seem to react that way to the Swedish school system

Oh I didn't excel at school @Hagel I sucked in school, I just learned everything on my own later in life.

Yes, I did the same

It works too.

I'm grateful for the internet, actually

Or I wouldn't have been able to learn what I now know

I have a friend who only completed upper secondary but got employed as an engineer.

He's the most skilled engineer and one of the smartest people I've ever met.

And I know several who had a formal college education.

The main realization which unlocks that possibility is that in school, you just study on your own and then prove what you've learned to your "teacher". So why even pay to go there?

None of them has his skills.

Yeah I feel the same about the internet.

There so few things I would know without it.

I remember one time when I had to look up some concept I didn't know in programming