How Can We Get Better at Learning?

The innernets changed basically everything about society, except for schooling. We still study at i text books and from lectures. It's ridiculous. And one of the things that you can do, if you want to ask, how can we get better at learning, just look at the world of sports. Because sports has a much higher bar for what quality looks like than schools.

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David Perell is a writer and entrepreneur. He is the creator of the wildly successful Write of Passage – an online course that helps people accelerate their careers by writing online. He has amassed a following of over 300,000 people on Twitter alone.

In this conversation, we spoke about David's college years, why introspection is overrated, David's interesting writing habits, and why epiphanies are felt.

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(0:00) Intro

(0:48) Probation

(5:01) The first time David started to take himself seriously

(6:11) Find the leverage

(8:12) Bill Morningstar

(11:20) How to get confidence when you’re not qualified?

(12:25) Coining terms as a creator

(15:00) Mimetic theory

(19:33) How do you make sure what you want is what you really want?

(21:33) Why does David spend time with people he disagrees with?