I think my biggest issue is learning, I never really learned how to 'learn' like take notes or 'study' things. My method of learning is more akin to skimming books (not knowing a good way for me to take notes on it) and articles, while also just testing stuff like I'm throwing things at a wall till it sticks and I pick up a lesson from that after wasted hours of trial and error that might have been avoided with properly knowing how to learn.

I need to figure out how to properly note-take and learn and properly go through all the books I've 'read' but never really learned.

Something I've learned over time.

Not everyone can "learn" a full product or platform. The world is filled with people who can memorize and retain entire libraries, and others who can only dedicate a percentage of it.

It's ok to not know "everything", just make sure you know enough to remain relevant and have the resources and support structure in place to find out when you need it.

Even the most intelligent people on this planet have limitations, and that's ok.

I hear you!! For me the start was to completely discard "note taking" and any other type of "learning" that I was taught in school/college.

That type of "learning" is for the most part meant to be testable, not something that you can learn and can intuitively know or understand.

Learning happens naturally in an exploratory manner, when you let your curiosity drive you, darn, when you actually feed your curiosity, free yourself to jump from book to book, tutorial to tutorial, documentation to documentation until you "understand" what you want to understand.

I've been learning this way for a few years now and it's been a complete game changer... but this comment is getting too long. If you like reading take a look at "How Children Fail". You don't need to be a teacher to see there how messed up our head are from traditional education and what better ways we even as adults can learn to learn

A pattern that can help learning:

Read something -> do something with what you read.

Do something: write it down, build something, tell someone about it, etc. Just do "something" with the info.

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