How to Teach Yourself Anything
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- Опубліковано 3 лип 2024
- Most of what I've learned hasn't been in school. Teaching myself has been a ton of fun, and it hasn't been that hard. I've kind of been learning things on accident. Here is how!
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Edit: People are asking what book I used to learn electronics, I used the Arduino Starter Kit. Not sure if its the best, but the key thing for me was that it had a lot of projects AND the components I needed to do them with, here is a link for reference: www.amazon.com/Official-Ardui...
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People are asking what book I used to learn electronics, I used the Arduino Starter Kit. Not sure if its the best, but the key thing for me was that it had a lot of projects AND the components I needed to do them with, here is a link for reference: www.amazon.com/Official-Arduino-Starter-Deluxe-Bundle/dp/B00UET6VJ6
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Just found your channel. Love it
I just wanted to say thank you so much for making these videos. I am so happy that I discovered your channel and I honestly look at you like the a successor to Bill Nye in a way. You make learning so fun. Like when you did the Dominoes to teach us about the universe.
If you could though can you actually show us a fun way to teach something. Like as a series. Maybe you could teach us hard skills like coding.
Germany is a "last lego move". German Literature is crazy important also all #PSFIR languages. Archive and make crazy crazy redundant, like 17 copies, at at least 5 geographically separate locations. (I do not know how many different geo or gps, or how many offline, the 17 i heard of may all have been online.) ~ You might learn who made Hitler, and figure out NegroHairDNA = Italy Japan deciding to become the RADAR Towers or Survey Tripod of all the Lands. ~ Poland keeps introducing itself to me, and it is a crayon factory of the #1600s, using #HalfPearls from all the Lands. #TulipMania in the 1637 is again them. Using Google Books there were a few clues maybe into the 1500s, which is scary if Gutenburg is 1450's. ~ Bibles and religion need to be a separate column of results. ~ Something about "book burning" has always targeted that which is older canons, specifically language histories not "#Sexting languages" or versions of some global conspiracy. ~ I suspect the False iQ game is #Sextant, #SexTent, #RedTent, the theme of 160/7bit or 70/16bit exceeds 1024bit into the 1120 range. 1 Pyramid 1'60, and all of us are less than 1'120 iQ. We keep the #AmericanMensa limited to 1:50 so that 1:32 classes allows to rule and murder all the smartest of the earth. ~ HonorSociety or some such, if there was ever going to be a Defense Intel(why is it abbreviated?) it might be #Intelligent to mandate a 12.5% national security status, tho i am more interested in Top05% education ruler chancellor or Headmaster status. Veto or addendum rights where employed by schools or not, yet some sort of recording open reading, and top 5% protection status, mostly lettering kids be enabled to see which works best for them with testing or math to vote on measurable changes.
#PrimusProxima, older generations were always smarter than newer generations. The outline in the earth compression: "Grade Years {KinderGarden, older word than expected} 1 through 5" the numbers are what i noticed. That is a top 20% approach to government.
Grate Job buddy, keep at the good work
I'm so glad this isn't a 9 minute skillshare ad.
Ich hatte nur darauf gewartet.
Exactly
This guy is so happy
This comment helped make that true :)
He still responds after a year, dedication
Because he runs! That and he’s blending his passion for learning and science with the creativity it takes to make UA-cam video. That and he has an audience that likes his stuff! That and he lives in the sunny part of Canada. That and...
Cus hes Canadian
Because he has lots of time to do what he wanted instead of just survive.
Goal + fun == rapid learning! Great video man!
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i gotta be honest, the doorbell just sounded like screeching to me... am I missing something?
I'm sure Kurtis could explain it better, but the speaker / noise-making module that he plugged into that Arduino single board computer can only play certain tones and frequencies, just like all speakers. So, yes, all I heard was screeching, but since he's had to play with the song file so much and program it, I'm sure the fact it works makes him more happy than the quality of the speaker. William Osman has a great video on his channel where he encounters a similar problem. Let me show you that!
ua-cam.com/video/YLNfQKjJWO8/v-deo.html
He should have used another resistor. I've also done that before and with the wrong resistor it just sounds awful.
its actually a lot easier to hear with headphones on ive found
Thats all I heard also.
It was just a cheap kit .... You get what you pay for !
I just discovered this channel (thanks Tom Scott!) and I'm LOVING it. I'm currently at university studying elementary education (endorsement in science) and this video is something that I'll definitely be thinking about as I continue into a career in education. I hope I can make my students as excited about learning as you are!
2 years later this was amazing, thank you for being so candid, honest and genuinely looking to help us by sharing this skill with us!
What do I do if I'm entirely theoretically-minded, and lose interest in something as soon as I'm reasonably sure I _could_ do it if I wanted to?
Like, I have a basic understanding of a thousand different things at this point, many of them fairly esoteric. But I don't know any one of them well enough to do anything useful or interesting with it.
I don't learn how to brew beer, I google "how to brew beer", read up on the steps, maybe fall down a wikipedia rabbit hole looking up different strains of yeast and archaeological evidence of brewing in the neolithic, then go "yeah, that all makes sense" and immediately lose motivation. I don't think I know how to goals. It'd be nice to have some actual skills as opposed to just lots of knowledge XD
Hmmmm, yah, the goals part can be particularly tricky.. I think part of the solution might lie in realizing how deep the "illusion of mastery" can go. This is where some vague familiarity with a topic makes you (me, anyone) feel really confident in it, when in reality you may be way off the mark. The best [WRITE OCCUPATION HERE] make it look easy. It often isn't. Thats a good thing though.
A good first goal might simply be to *fail* and then overcome that failure.
In learning to brew I made some reaaaaallly shitty beer, but I had to solve a hundred unexpected problems before I even got that far. How does one syphon without making a mess? It became an activity and an adventure. Considering we've been making it for thousands of years, it was WAY harder than I thought. (btw, I'd recommend starting with making cider.. much easier). But failing is kind of key. It gives you this feeling of "Oh yah, Universe!? You think you're better than me?! I'll show you! I can do it!" and then you try again, and again, and eventually it works. Then the goal is direct that momentum at an even more difficult goal.
What are some skills you might want to learn?
Oh, I don't actually think I've _mastered_ anything. I've been in academia for a while now, so I'm fully aware that there's more to pretty much any subject than one human being can learn in a lifetime, both in terms of knowledge and skills!
I just feel like I could, potentially, if I invested X years of effort, become good at it, and that's usually enough for me to lose the motivation to put in hard work past that point. I don't seem to have a lot of intrinsic motivation to actually acquire practical skills -- I never tinkered or took stuff apart as a kid. My dad tried to get me to play with chemistry sets and an electronics kit, but I always preferred reading about things instead.
Right now what I'd most like to learn for fun is music theory and an instrument (I'm thinking about buying a cheapish keyboard and/or an electric violin). My current hope is that music theory will be esoteric enough to keep me motivated, and that trying out diverse styles of music will keep me from feeling competent.
But all that just seems like working around my motivation problem rather than solving it. And so I keep putting it off because a keyboard costs money and takes up space and I don't have all that much spare time anyway and I don't want to end up mothballing it after two months and... :v
For the violin though, I was considering setting myself the goal of getting really good at playing the Swallowtail Jig, because that's one of my favourite tunes and it seems pretty tricky. Does that seem sensible to you?
I was definitely off on the wrong tangent there, sorry. Swallowtail sounds like a great long term goal! Definitely want to start with something simpler and work your way up, but it is totally dooable! Normally I recommend that people avoid learning sheet music when they start learning an instrument, since it can be dry for a lot of people... but you're right that the theory side of things might be the driving factor for you.
Have you heard about the 20 hour 'rule'?? You might find it interesting, but to summarize: after 20 hours of learning a thing you have learned a lot and start seeing diminishing returns.. it is super achievable! Maybe you could track it for extra motivation? ua-cam.com/video/5MgBikgcWnY/v-deo.html
You can do it! Really curious to hear how it goes - let me know :)
Ask in "ENTP" facebook groups, you're one of us, and we can help you ;)
Knowing is not understanding.
You can know how to drive a car, turn the wheel, stay on the right. Understanding comes from experience of actually driving the car, the small minute details that you don't even think about when learning to do something.
You can only get that with time and practice.
I know a lot of people that think they are the best at something, but that is not good. Never think you are at a peak, you can always get better.
Dear Kurtis, thanks for all the videos. I realise how much I loved learning , having fun and trying out new things. Since the beginning of the last decade, I have spent so much energy and time on social media, filling my head with junk data and learning stuff at the university just for the sake of getting a degree. I have finally started to enjoy the things I do and have a clear objective. I find myself more happy everyday.
This is kinda what school attempts to teach you. They're not teaching you important life skills such as knowing how to do taxes or how to program. But instead they attempt to teach you how to learn but in a way worse process. Unlike this process they don't have the fun nor the goal in mind. They instead just try cramming information down your throat and expect you to retain it until the end of the year. In my band class I barely learned anything. Nothing about how to correctly read the notes, chords, or scales. But once I obtained other instruments that were more interesting to me such as a melodica or a harmonica I quickly begun to understand chords, scales, and notes. I didn't learn much from common core math either. When I decided to attack a much advanced project such as a little laser etcher I learned way more and way faster. So basically in our educational systems we need stuff that can actually interest students and actually have a goal to engrave it into our minds better.
Key word: attempts
If you can retain the information for only 1 year, you didn't learned, you just memorized it to get approved in tests. The school system is not even close to what should actually be.
I've seen a private school in Colombia that is actually a school to teach you to be a self-taught. There, you don't have classes, you study in your own table with a computer using the web platform of the school and your notebook, you have "analysts"(professors) at your disposal to get help and ask questions, you have a advisor that help to schedule your weekly studies and keep your on the tracks. They also use a autonomy system of the students, if you want to level up your autonomy status, you need to send a letter to the school board with *why you want* and *why you deserve* to level up, if they accept, you will need to plan a presentation about any subject of your studies and present it to a teachers collegiate, only if you get approval from the collegiate you will level up. In the last level of autonomy you don't get help from the analysts and advisor, if you need help from advisor you need to schedule a meeting with him. The pros of the last level of autonomy is that you make your own schedule.
That school is actually amazing, a 10 yo kid who was in the last level of autonomy gave a interview and he talks WAY BETTER than a adult. It is a incredible disparity from a kid in a public school or in a private school that copy the public school system.
My school did not teach this
watching all your videos this past week and you've really changed my perspective on how I view my own ability to learn. since watching your videos i've been thinking about going back to school to study something i never thought i'd ever have the guts or brains to do, and that's science. so thank you for kindling a interest in me, and for helping me find something that makes me feel purposeful. :)
has a glass that cover the third of the screen, only writes two words at the end of the video on it
It's actually around 40% of the screen if you measure it.
I didn't even notice that lmao, it's annoying me now, thanks a lot for pointing that out.
Have an objective and have fun. Thank you for the advice. Sometimes it can be easy to get frustrated with classwork but things like this are quite grounding. I definitely do learn better when I'm having fun (such as watching your videos) rather than when I'm just grinding through it to cram for the exam.
This video is almost 2 years old, but I absolutely love it. You're so right! That's how, and why, I taught myself to program. I have a blast doing it. Similar to what that one gentleman mentioned, I never actually taught myself to JUST program. I had projects I wanted to complete, problems I wanted to solve, and putting everything in that context made everything so much more natural to accomplish. Nothing felt like a chore.
I do have to say, I discovered your channel a few weeks ago, just before you got the second subscriber plant, and I have shared more of your videos in such a short time than I ever have. The information you present and the insight you provide is just so valuable and relatable. I genuinely enjoy and value your content, and I appreciate you so much. Keep it up bro!
I should teach myself how to write shrek fan fiction
Chase your bliss, my dude
Shrek is love, Shrek is life
Y E S
Just love the honesty of your speech! I can't remember when was the last time I saw someone on UA-cam asking for feedback through a dislike... Bravo 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Loved it! It's so simple, but so eye opening actually, thank you!
I love your shirt.
But in all seriousness, this video is so helpful, and I appreciate that you take time out of your life to make these kinds of things. Keep up the awesome work!
I love your videos! They're inspiring and your energy is infectious. I also love when you show us a random project you've built - seeing people working on their hobbies really pushes me to do the same.
One thing I feel a video of this kind could benefit from is perhaps some animation (difficult without a team of editors!), or an easier stretch - some citation or a references to relevant studies.
Keep it up, I always look forward to your videos!
Objective + fun , the primordial soup that I've been looking to make learning more engaging and productive. What a wonderful insight from you, Kurt. Definitely helpful!
Thanks, man!
you are a very helpful individual thank you, i feel like i give up so easily when things get hard and i really shouldn't i should do what you said and find fun things to learn thanks again chief
Amazing and simple. Fun and objective. Thanks got me back on track. To work on several things i enjoy.
Always love your videos ❤️
Thank you some of the best how to learning advice out there.!
I liked that you were specific and emphasised only on two things. Fun and objective
Thank you for this Kurtis!
This is such a great approach to learning. I've always found my favorite educators are the ones who take abstract concepts and apply them to relatable experience. Being able to interact with and idea on some tangible level is the easiest way to grasp it, whether it's relating a historical event to something that affects you right now or getting your hands dirty by taking something apart and trying to put it back together. Keep up the great work!
Yeah, I'm definitely on the same page as you there. We humans like stories and things we can relate to, not abstract ideas :) Thanks so much!
This is so simple, and yet... I have frequently struggled to learn new things because my learning process wasn't framed around an objective. And forgetting to make it fun! Reflecting on my own education (in school and otherwise), I've retained very little knowledge based on rote memorization, but wherever it was fun and useful, it generally stuck. Thanks Kurt, this has been a useful reflection for me!
Glad it was good for reflection! You described my entire student experience just there aha I wish I'd known how to actively apply this as a kid - would have been able to learn soooooo much!
Yes, exactly! But knowing it now, we can apply it to our next 50 years of learning! Or until it gets supplanted by an even better method :)
You've got the right attitude! :) Ok. Time for me to get good at math!
I Love you
Crystal clear , good job 👌👌👌
dude... dont know why but your actually awesome. keep doing you man!!!
One of the best video i watched in my lifetime
I am an interdependent filmmaker from germany and have to learn new stuff every day. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on self-teaching because it has changed the last week for me. I was stuck in a routine of "i-dont-want-to-do-that" because i didnt have an good objective. Look at stuff from an other angle has helped me a lot. So thanks and keep on creating great videos.
Thank you for that advice.
You've definitely inspired me and made me realize I learned english through fun stuff and the objective of living abroad my home country.
Lately I've been riddled by goals, however with little or no fun envolved. That's not going to happen if it's within my power of action.
Excellent video man. I've taught myself things I wanted to know for my entire life too, so I definitely relate.
Thank you, you just gave me the inspiration needed to change my life completely. God Bless
I'm So happy I discovered thus channel, its proof that you don't need crazy editing and to be yelling all the time with flashy graphics to make a good and informative video.
This helped me out in a job interview. Thank you!
I really enjoyed this video. I will keep the info I learned with me.
Such a great video, dude! thanks for sharing!!
i love this channel man keep going
I really love your videos theyre really inspiring. You put alot of effort into them and it really shows c: keep it up.
Thank you Kurtis! Staying on track is a challenge.
BattleChess, yesss! You're the man, love your Linear Algebra videos.
I'm addicted to your videos and your mind
I think this is a very accurate video. In fact I kind of figured that out with one aspect of my life and people were looking at me stupid because I was talking about how when you make it fun it isn’t a chore. And now that have something that helped me pair what else is productive I’m glad. I will share the video.
Very inspiring man! Great job!
This is how I teach myself things. I learn new skills because they help me make fun projects. I learnt to program in a ZX-81 because I couldn't afford to buy games. I learn electronics because I wanted a remote control car. The list is endless. I learnt stuff so I could make cool things. Even now at over 50 I'm still teaching myself new things to I can make other things.
This was actually very helpful. Thanks.
Kurtis. You're awesome. Period.
video worth watching. Thank you
Dude thank you so much
Thanks for inspiring me 💙
Thanks for the video !
I think that it was so cool .
I’m glad to hear what you have taught yourself and am Mycroft and I have been always trying to learn how to teach myself how to build something useful something like a robot and I have no idea and I think we can teach each other and help each other.
This man inspires
thank u so much, I love this video, and I like your pof about how to learn anything, fun+objective, gbu 😊💞
Great videos! thanks for sharing this!
speechless, you're so amazing and one of the most humble man I know. Thank you so much ❤
-new subscriber here, Godbless!
Have fun and have a goal. Got it bro
Thank you!
I enjoyed the video Mr Kurtis. It was fun and enlightening. I tried learning french as well from time to time, but I give up to easily. What sucks the most is that I studied in two french speaking nations; The Republic of Benin and Togo. Both lovely and beautiful countries. I spent a total of 3 years ; 1 in Benin and 2 years in Togo. Yet my french is still terrible I'm back to Nigeria now, which is my country, and one thing I really wanted to learn before leaving Togo was french. But I'm not giving up at all and I know by the grace of God I'll be able to communicate fluently in french before the end of next year. Amen!
Really interesting and helpful, thanks!!
Thanks so much.
yes girl yess the content I am living for
I love this. I take the same approach learning Swedish. I used to read text books, and take tutoring lessons etc. Now i read a lot of books and listen to audiobooks and movies. I've learned it so much quicker. I still pay tutors to practice conversations with but I gave up on the text books etc.
Such amazing attitude! 🌻
Thanks :D definitely living on the bright side of life
Love this! I Want to learn Spanish to help with travel when I finish uni. So my goal is to find time during semester and definitely in the holidays!!
Good Work!
Very interesting video, thank you Kurtis, have a good one :)
Excellent video
Vielen Dank für das tolle Video!
Awesome video
Don't usually comment on videos but I am here cause you were so genuine and humble in your presentation. This is not just another video aimed at grabbing eyeballs and likes but genuinely focused on teaching
Thanks! Thats the only reason I'm here making these, so I truly appreciate that :)
Kurtis, I started following your channel from the video where you announced changing your channel name (to your actual name). Video after video, I am seeing how genuine, curious and engaging you are at making your videos. I appreciate that so much and I truly commend you for taking on the character of applying FUN and always having an OBJECTIVE =) Thank you!
Hi Ramez! Thanks so much for the encouragement. Truly appreciated. Hope you're having an excellent day! :)
omg just discovered your channel.. it's amazing!
I was like you with learning french in school until at the age of 29 I moved from Ontario to Quebec. Actually being immersed in the language really helped since I had an objective. Now 4 years later I know enough french to be understood and am confident.
Hey dude, great video, smashing that like button before I leave
This is one of the most important videos on UA-cam.
Did u used it? Found helpful?
Thank you
Great video!!
Came here from Tom Scott and never looked back. Amazing job buddy
I really liked your video. FUN + OBJECTIVE
Love your content Kurtis, they're always fun and I always learn something, although I don't actually NEED those things on your channel, but they're really interesting, and you make it quite entertaining.
And as you said, in school you don't really have fun learning, and the only objective that you see as a kid is "I have to get good grades, or else". That objective isn't fun either.
So yeah, totally that's the best way. fun+objective=learning
I'm a very competitive person, and I taught myself to speak English when I was around 6 or so (or at least I started at that age), because I wanted to play games and all of them were in English. And also I always liked English music, and I wanted to understand what they said and to sing those songs "properly".
Recently I also taught myself to speak Portuguese, because I play online with brazilians and I need to communicate with them in order to work as a team, so.. If I wanted to have fun and win, I had to speak their language.
Again, fun + objectives.
Although sometimes it can be hard to find an specific objetive, I tried to teach myself to play the piano, but my objectives were far to high.. Couldn't even play with both hands, but I was already trying to play The Doors - Light My Fire.
Greetings from down south Argentina.
You are totally right! Fun + Objective are the key things that help you a lot. but there are other important things to take into account.
When you want to learn something, the key is to be SMART.
Specific (simple, sensible, significant).
Measurable (meaningful, motivating,).
Achievable (agreed, attainable).
Relevant (reasonable, realistic and resourced, results-based).
Time bound (time-based, time limited, time/cost limited, timely, time-sensitive).
You can google SMART goals for further reference ;)
This is very interesting. Thank you.b
You're amazing!!! 💜💜💜 Ride on
awesome video
I really need to say, that you do an awesome job in creating easily digestable bits out of very complex topics (like the cake analogy in one of your videos). Ideas i wish i could have had myself, but didn't. Also i can say, that your point of view about learning is definetly one of the best. I'm following by the same principles for years now (I'm 21 and study biology, 3rd semester undergraduate) and try to learn new things everyday. Today i found your channel and i'm currently watching like all of them xD.
Außerdem finde ich es cool, das du versuchst Deutsch aus dem selben Grund zu lernen wie ich versuche Japanisch zu lernen. Wir haben ja auch tolle Wörter, wie z.B. "Eierschalensollbuchstellenverursacher" oder kürzer "Eieröffner" (wortwörtlich "Eggopener"). Wie dem auch sei, danke für die tollen Ideen ^^.
Maybe you should team up with "Mike Boyd", if you ever have the chance ^^.
I totally agree with the fun+objective requirements to properly learn something. At the moment I'm struggling a lot to find the proper objective that would make it fun, and that it's more or less possible to make with the little free time I have... It's a great video, I wish I've learned this a long time ago when I actually had the time to do stuff hehehe
I loved playing Battle Chess on the Commodore Amiga here in the U.K. , in 1987 😍
Exactly,i remember when I was a kid,playing ps2 games was something i religiously did.My native language isn't English,but i learned it through the games,if i play call of duty,which I vividly remember playing,and I had to heal this Russian commander,and I had no idea what the word "Heal" translated to,so i looked into the English-Croatian dictionary that my sister had,and found out what it meant.Later,I always had that dictionary at hand,and used it when i needed to.Today I can speak English pretty well,and of course I am still learning.But there,as you said; Fun and a Objective.
Before I went to high school I was quite excited to learn french. My first 2 grades were both a 3 (on a scale of 1 to 10). After that I completely lost interest. And now I'm learning Japanese which is way harder. But this time I'm not forced to learn a specific set of things at a specific pace. I can just slowly learn more and more. And now I quite enjoy learning a language :D
I've been taking quite a lot of online classes at college and university level in parallel with full time work (I'm in Sweden, and I only have to pay for books and whatever obligatory meetups etc might be scheduled), and here's two things I've come to appreciate: A clear plan/schedule ('cuz it sucks to have to suddenly arrange for a week of absence from work) and "Don't fear the repeat test". (Side note number 3: don't expect perfection of yourself if you're doing something that'd usually require full time attention WHILST keeping up with a full time job.)
Nice lecture. I've always had difficulty with material purveyed via conventional means. Of course, I would look online and ask friends and everybody would say, "Well I just picked up this book," or, "I took this 3 week crash-course in uni," and I would try those things and ultimately fail. I feel like this video hit the nail on the head for me.
I think maybe I should drop the books this time and maybe just learn 100 French words and go play on some French Counter-Strike servers or something. My Palestini friend learned Russian that way, and that language is extremely foreign to both languages he knew when he started.
great video
Lustig.
Genauso hab ich auch Schach gelernt.
I was doing that and I didn't even was noticing, thanks for showing me what I was doing. By the beginning of the year I am focused on learning 3 things: C# (For making games and improve my programing skills), Japanese 'cause animes, and how to draw. And I'm doing this three things almost everyday, And is being the most fun that I had in a long time. Now I know where I need to go to continue this way. Thank you!
Probably there will be some errors d:
Kurtis: I appreciate your insights about learning. Currently, I am taking classes I have no interest in and I am bored. However, after viewing this video I am looking at these classes in a different light; "How I can apply what is being taught into a field that interests me." Thanks.
I always thought: "You can't have fun while you are learning"
So glad that it isn't the case!