/lit/ - Literature

I've got one at least I'll check if I can find any more.

This is notes for 'How to Read a Book' which is in your chart

>>15286897
useless. god i hate women

>>15286897
This is the original post for the infograph I believe, so probably useless but here it is

>>15286897
What a shit tier summary
>>15286921
It's not the writers fault, the book is much more nuanced than that. It's the fault of whatever retard that made that chart.

Here's a basic guide to the Trivium

>>15286926
>>15286834
We haven't had autodidact threads in a while because of the eternal /pol/ summer, but I'd really want to share my discoveries of Make it Stick (thanks to an anon on here), Deep Work, and right now I'm reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, but I don't know if it really belongs there, though it seems like a nice little capstone in the: how the brain works -> how to set yourself up for success one two punch those first two books gave.

>>15286932
Here's a guide to Julius Evola

>>15286941
Sweet chart anon, but maybe lets keep this to autodidact, self-improvement stuff? Esoteric and fascist books are pretty well documented on the Wiki and elsewhere, let's make this thread useful.

>>15286957
If that's the case, then I would genuinely recommend pic related. In my opinion, it's very helpful specifically regarding 'formal' people skills, how to interact in a business setting and with acquaintances, etc. It also speaks quite a bit about the importance of restraining your anger, letting others talk about themselves to gain their favor, and more.

>>15287008
maybe after a bit an anon could put together a new autodidact chart, but probably need a few more lengthy effort-posts to make anything half decent

>>15286921
Sacha is a boy's name

>>15287062
Sacha Chua isn't, she's a blogger, and her notes are pretty useless. Just posted them because I found them on some other anons .rar of charts and wanted to contribute cause this is a good thread idea lol.

I don't think anon cared though, probably just hates his mom and gets spit on by every girl he catfishes on tinder.

>>15287056
hm... go fuck yourself

>>15287056
Here are my scattered notes on pic related:
>Modern distractions have taken away from our ability to perform deep work and think big thoughts. Little manual tasks and social media distract.
>Karl Yung would lock himself in a tower in the woods to avoid distractions.
>I can't get rid of a computer right now for WORK, but I can for STUDY.
>Neurologically, our minds love distraction, but it's totally inefficient. It avoids getting into flow state to produce something that generates meaning for humans. So you should do deep work brah. It's, like, satisfying, and stuff.
>If the sacred died with god and Nietzsche and Descartes, then the skill into an action ca bring it back because it defines itself by the substance of the work, not by the individual. So while one will still have to choose what work to do, eg. sword or wheel crafting, the work itself provides meaning by its content. In the lawyer perview, you have to choose to be one and what case to take. But the law out there and the facts you are provided are not effected by you, but your work crafts them into a final product, eg. finishing the case, and to a lesser amount the individual hearings and documents crafted as the product.
>track hours. take intentional breaks like a walk. use a little note card and circle goal completion.
>make a shut down ritual and a big common place to do list. make ritual of ending the day. psychological evidence shows that true shut down time allows for deeper work the next day.
>take a walk and be productive when meditating. find a specific problem to think of.
>memory palace practice. possibly on walk?
>in leisure time, spend it within something structured. for you, my friend, that is books, and guitar, and physical finess. Reddit and 4chan are jokes and drains. you must work out your leisure muscles just as you would anything else.
>schedule your day. reschedule wrong estimates.
>what is the ratio of shallow to deep work?
>Without deep work, how am I supposed to learn [[Funk guitar]]?

>>15287128
Good notes, anon. Any other books like this?

>>15287586
Again, I’d suggest Make it Stick, about the science and methods of true memory. Recall and the struggle with it being the focal point. At a certain point, reading about learning and avoiding distractions becomes the distraction if you don’t apply it. Though I just opened some beers tonight and I don’t think I’m gonna be able to get anything else done tonight. I failed the bar twice now by less than 1% and so I’ve been now trying to figure out what method of study I’ve been oblivious to and what things I’ve been doing that have been getting in the way. I’ve realized I’m smart enough to skate by on most things, even law school. I’ve finally hit an opportunity to fix that. There’s always been this urge in the back of my mind to be the sage and talented person who’s truly good at something, and I think this is an opportunity to do that. Regret is hard to stave off, dunno any books on that feel. Sorry for the blog. I wanna help anons on their journey to self learning. It really is the best feeling.

Anyone want to share their own weird learning processes? Y’all ever thought to examine your process? Some of the smartest people I know are a lot like athletes in that they aren’t really even aware of what they are doing.

>>15286834
Learning how to learn is so ridiculous that I don't know if it's self aware.
If you're over-analyzing to the point where you genuinely forgot know how to learn then you should remember that learning is first of all a kind of will to grasp something. When you're actually trying hard to figure something out with all your energy and frustration you don't think about stupid shit like "how do I learn", you just intuitively maximize efficiency because you're motivated by lust.

>>15287883
Often the subjects I've learned most on are by writing on or around those subjects.

One time I wrote an alternate history premise in like a 30 page word doc about a world where Cromwell won the English Civil War, and in doing so learned a fuckton by accident about 1600s England, the restoration, English-European diplomacy around that time and the ramifications that the English Civil War had. In my reading I found that the Great Plague of London was quite likely caused by Dutch prisoners of war, in a war that I had estimated might not have occurred under the protectorate. Therefore, Isaac Newton possibly would have been massively set back in his 'Optiks' and 'Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica', which he laid the groundwork for in this time alone.

It's a bit of a stupid and sometimes impractical way to learn things, but writing a 'beginner's guide' or forming your own opinion around a subject or writing something about it requires you almost by mandate to do the reading.

>>15288131
This is very true, I often find that while I may hold strong beliefs regarding something in my head due to intuition, writing even a paragraph about it turns into writing an essay. It ends up forcing me to consider things I hadn't before, formalizing my thoughts on certain things, etc.
Maybe I'm just fucking autistic, but after learning about a difficult or intriguing subject, I'll have a sort of fake conversation in my head with a friend, explaining to them the topic and its intricacies, and this helps me a lot with understanding it more myself.

>>15288131
Good Post. Im currently writing a shortstory about schizophrenia for a writing contest and it forces me to learn about its implications.
>>15286834
https://mega.nz/folder/JrhSyY6S#7qmTPol52TnmpFOdbag7RQ

here is a megafolder with charts. Its definitely not complete but maybe you will find something useful.

>>15288106
I agree. Best way to 'learn how to learn' is to start learning. But be self-conscious, use your time efficiently, and try different things. You won't learn how to take proper notes or follow a complicate arguments by taking a course on note-taking or reading a book on research techniques. Like any techne, there's no substitute for practice.
Of course, you can easily search for and find many new methods on or ideas about 'how to study best', but there should never be an attempt made to build a system of it, outside the actual doing of the thing. Learning is not made in theory, but is achieved through practice. Although, practice should be nicely supplemented with theory, but more than that, with a self-aware, life-long love of learning.