Be Yourself: How Should you Learn something?

This is the single best video I’ve ever watched on YouTube so far. If you haven’t yet, please do so.

Learning is essential in life. Even when you think you know every aspect of something, you always learn new things of it every once in a while. In the first draft of this article, the title of this wasn’t the current version, but actually “make the mistakes that everybody else does, and you’ll learn faster than anything”, and it was, in itself, a mistake.

Trying to wrap my head around this concept was a process of mistakes & learning, and in a strong urge to entirely deny my entire past self, I chose the title of the article to be that, “make the mistakes that everybody else does, and you’ll learn faster than anything”. While I was oblivious in how it was wrong, as I wrote more and more, the article made less sense, so I decided to abandon it at the moment and revisit it after some time had passed.

The reason I was urged to have the initial title was that I had a long period of I trying to avoid every mistake I knew of. It is indeed ironic, since I am making a mistake by avoiding a mistake. This was partially from the environment I grew up, where I picked up concepts like pure or perfect. Which are flawed concepts when they are nuanced with a positive scent.

While these concepts and avoiding mistakes, seem benign to the naked eye, they are one of the biggest mistakes I’ve made in my life so far. this is because it has been persistent in leading me to do things in an entirely new way, and with that, I made weird mistakes that no one else can neither understand nor provide help in solving.

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From these concepts, started the initial title “make the mistakes that everybody else does, and you’ll learn faster than anything”. Now, I know that’s wrong. It’s wrong for two reasons.

First, while I was wrong in trying to avoid every mistake I knew of, more specifically, I was wrong in avoiding the mistakes that were natural to me.

This was especially true what I did to do this was fabricating entirely new ways of doing things deviating from the conventional way, which I found out the in the hard way why they are called that way.

Therefore, I shouldn’t try to make all the mistakes I knew of, which is the negation of the former, but I should try to make the mistakes I naturally would. In other words, I should try to be myself, and I should be shameless in doing so.

Second, You don’t have to try to Learn Faster

Another thing I learned while recalibrating after I learned about how I should learn, is that due to the first mistake, which many people make, you are actually much ahead of other people if you just proceed in normal pace, while just being yourself.

I want to end by introducing you to the speech Steve Jobs, the legend behind Apple made at a commencement ceremony. It’s really humble, jobs just plainly explaining himself with out any grandiosity, and cheering people off, but I think it accurately captures the essense of this article. It also extends the concept in being yourself to asserting yourself, so that people could actually understand what you need, which could be the first step of receiving help. It also inspired me on how I should write this article. Also, Thank you for reading.

Stay hungry, stay Foolish.

-Steve Jobs

Current Version Drafted 2024/11/07 – Need to make it more asthetically pleasing, Too much irony in logic.

ideas : I had a really bad time trying to avoid inner guilt by entirely changing myself. Of which I also learned that inner guilt is something people prioritizing in avoiding.


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