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## what accelerated learning
-### the gestalts framework
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-from a friend: "greater understanding of the world through experiences that connect in meaningful ways to previous experiences." the idea that knowledge isn't linear — it's a graph. new experiences connect to old ones and the connections create understanding.
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-practically: when something happens, ask "what does this remind me of?" and "how is this different from the similar thing that happened before?"
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### talking as reflection
"talking to others as a form of reflection" — explaining what i was working on to someone who wasn't involved often surfaced insights i couldn't get alone. "bouncing ideas off people is such a good experience."
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a friend at a startup: "spend 2 weeks grinding some bio problem, then pivot to EE, then pivot to physics. learn to learn. connections between random stuff makes learning much faster and better."
-## the compounding effect
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-all of this compounds. the more experiences i reflected on, the more patterns i had to match against. the more patterns i had, the faster i could learn from new experiences. "had ideas that i could become cracked at something using first principles thinking, experience with iteration, and some nice mentoring. intuitively i would just iterate and become very strong, especially with strong intentionality."
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-the startup CEO's version: "skills + mentality goes up and up and cost to do things goes down and down." the [[stocks metaphor|wiki/mentorship/the-stocks-metaphor]] applied to learning itself.
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*see also: [[the stocks metaphor|wiki/mentorship/the-stocks-metaphor]], [[reading papers|wiki/research-notes/reading-papers]], [[mindset shifts|wiki/things-that-worked/mindset-shifts]]*
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