An interesting quote I heard while speaking to a friend the other day. We were talking about learning, and what he felt was the most important parts of his personal learning process.
Focus. Yaz says that the greatest skill is knowing how to block unnecessary information. This is where the seemingly paradoxical quote “knowledge is the loss of information” comes from. With the huge amount of information available to us every day, how do we filter out the valuable stuff? All information has its value when it is needed, otherwise it is just a distraction.
Motivation. Yaz has to know why he is doing something. Then when he hits a problem or gets stuck, he can easily jump up and keep coming back to it. He knows why this is important to him, and can justify it. This is how he can spend 12 hours a day learning new material.