The Best Way to Learn About Anything

No matter what you want to learn, you can find it online. It’s never been easier to get access to information.

You can spend days scrolling through videos showing you how to drive a car, how to bake a cake, how to lift weights, how to organize your notes, or anything else you want to learn.

Or, if you prefer to read, you can read books and guides to learn how to do those things.

There’s just one problem:

Watching videos and reading books won’t actually teach you how to do the thing you want to do.

The best way to learn how to bake a cake is to bake a cake. Maybe the first one will come out terribly. Maybe the first several will be flops.

Eventually, you’ll figure it out. But only if you’re engaged in the process of making it.

The same is true of anything.

Everything is its own language, and the best way to learn a language is to read it, speak it, and immerse in it.

The information available to us can teach us about a subject; it can help us understand it better. But information isn’t knowledge.

True knowledge is embodied — it lives within you. It gets implanted via experience.

If you really want to learn how to do something, forget about trying to find “best practices.” Instead, get your hands dirty and start doing it.