Deep Questions with Cal Newport

By Cal Newport

Ep. 281: Learning Hard Things

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Published January 01, 2024 6:00am

One of the more important abilities to cultivate for the year ahead is comfort learning complicated (and therefore valuable) new things. In this episode, Cal tackles the myths surrounding mastery and presents a new mental model for internalizing non-trivial information. As he elaborates, there is both good news and bad news when it comes to this topic: you can learn almost anything, but you can’t learn everything.

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