Learning things on your own is hard. Maybe these tips will help.

00:00 Introduction
00:42 How to make specific learning goals
2:03 What are the key skills?
3:21 Gathering learning resources
4:02 A note on scheduling
4:48 Making the best use of feedback
8:12 Watch out for timesensitive learning goals
10:15 When to make a change

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REFERENCES

On creating meaningful learning goals, see:

https://cwsei.ubc.ca/resources/instru..., from the Carl Weiman Science Initiative

To read more about metacognition and illusions of knowing, see:

Avhustiuk, M. M., Pasichnyk, I. D., & Kalamazh, R. V. (2018). The illusion of knowing in metacognitive monitoring: Effects of the type of information and of personal, cognitive, metacognitive, and individual psychological characteristics. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 14(2), 317. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

On spacing, see my Medium article and the references linked therein: https://bit.ly/3SBcD3v

To read more about Goodhart's Law and other ways that metrics can backfire, I highly recommend:

Muller, J. Z. (2019). The Tyranny of Metrics. Princeton University Press.

CREDITS

My blog post example was www.betterexplained.com a really good website discussing the intuitions behind many math concepts.

The Youtube channel example was Mathematical Visual Proofs: ‪@MathVisualProofs‬

The textbook example was "University Physics" widely regarded as one of the best basic physics books out there. Young, H. D., Freedman, R. A., & Ford, A. L. (2016) Sears and Zemansky's university physics. Pearson education. 14th Edition. There's more recent editions as well.

StackExchange is one of the great places to get answers to questions by experts especially in programming, engineering, and mathematics. The forum post I showed was from CrossValidated their statistics arm. https://stackexchange.com/sites#

The Magic player was Kenji "NumotTheNummy" Egashira, his channel is here: ‪@NumotTheNummyYT‬

Steph Curry highlights were from:    • 10 Minutes Of RIDICULOUS Steph Curry ...  .