Craig, dude, every single time I read one of your newsletters, you call me out on my bullshit... and let’s just say it is much needed.
Your authenticity and sincerity shine through your writing. It makes it MUCH easier to evaluate your profound ideas and make my own connections. I have (attempted) to mind map several times now because of your newsletters.
They look nothing like a mind map should... but the learning process is so much more fucking fun because of it (I despise linear note taking and could never truly apply myself using that technique; I felt lesser because of it).
Your introduction of mental frameworks has presented me a necessary perspective change after YEARS of attempting (and, of course, failing) to learn by memorization. You have given me the tools for a genuine attempt at learning, and I have been able to apply those tools in many areas of my life.
Just wanted to comment to let you know your work is much appreciated and you are making a significant impact.
Hi Craig, very cool ideas, I’ve been reading your stuff for you while, and since I believe conversations about what one reads also matters for learning, I wanted to see what you think about this idea: priming, while efficient for making connections with existing knowledge and thus promoting the feeling of learning, only serves to reinforce your current belief system and hardly helps to destroy it when it should.
I don’t agree with this idea. If you are learning you are rebuilding. You are evaluating, reevaluating, and creating a new understanding; a new way of looking at the world (you are literally reorganising knowledge inside your own brain through encoding).
If not, you’re just consuming. Or, what you are trying to learn is already so intuitive to your understanding that you’re not really learning anything.
These would be my first initial thoughts on your idea! Thanks for reading my work❤️
Love this, we learn about priming in cognitive psychology but not how to apply it this way. Currently reading an information-heavy book I feel like I've lost the plot of, gonna try this method for the next chapter to get back on track.
I was wondering if you’d be open to writing something on creativity. With everything happening around AI right now, I’ve been thinking a lot about how it’s affecting the way we think, create, and even trust our own voices. I’d really love your perspective and if you have any tips. Thank you.
I have been using the spider web idea for a week now, and it's amazing. It helps me connect ideas, thoughts, and real life experiences. Now I am enjoying writing my newsletter even more. Thank you man
Thank you for sharing this knowledge. I think I have learned from your newsletter more than I expected, and it is always a great feeling to read something and learn from it, get new ideas and perspectives, and awaken a new interest in how to do things better. You are a bright person, and that is always something to be thankful for. Congrats!
Thank you It is useful for me .
Craig, dude, every single time I read one of your newsletters, you call me out on my bullshit... and let’s just say it is much needed.
Your authenticity and sincerity shine through your writing. It makes it MUCH easier to evaluate your profound ideas and make my own connections. I have (attempted) to mind map several times now because of your newsletters.
They look nothing like a mind map should... but the learning process is so much more fucking fun because of it (I despise linear note taking and could never truly apply myself using that technique; I felt lesser because of it).
Your introduction of mental frameworks has presented me a necessary perspective change after YEARS of attempting (and, of course, failing) to learn by memorization. You have given me the tools for a genuine attempt at learning, and I have been able to apply those tools in many areas of my life.
Just wanted to comment to let you know your work is much appreciated and you are making a significant impact.
❤️
Hi Craig, very cool ideas, I’ve been reading your stuff for you while, and since I believe conversations about what one reads also matters for learning, I wanted to see what you think about this idea: priming, while efficient for making connections with existing knowledge and thus promoting the feeling of learning, only serves to reinforce your current belief system and hardly helps to destroy it when it should.
Thanks!
I don’t agree with this idea. If you are learning you are rebuilding. You are evaluating, reevaluating, and creating a new understanding; a new way of looking at the world (you are literally reorganising knowledge inside your own brain through encoding).
If not, you’re just consuming. Or, what you are trying to learn is already so intuitive to your understanding that you’re not really learning anything.
These would be my first initial thoughts on your idea! Thanks for reading my work❤️
Love this, we learn about priming in cognitive psychology but not how to apply it this way. Currently reading an information-heavy book I feel like I've lost the plot of, gonna try this method for the next chapter to get back on track.
I was wondering if you’d be open to writing something on creativity. With everything happening around AI right now, I’ve been thinking a lot about how it’s affecting the way we think, create, and even trust our own voices. I’d really love your perspective and if you have any tips. Thank you.
I’ve added this topic to my newsletter ideas, expect it coming soon!
Craig I want to study for exams and I have chemistry, physics, mathematics and many more
Does Priming work for these subjects
What of if my "why" to reading is to pass my exam with good grades. Does it change anything?
This will work for any subject, even if your “why” is for exams :)
love the fact that you kept using profound throughout n just ended up writing about profound ideas😂
Thank you for your informative newsletter, i really like it
I have been using the spider web idea for a week now, and it's amazing. It helps me connect ideas, thoughts, and real life experiences. Now I am enjoying writing my newsletter even more. Thank you man
This was a great read Craig. Especially the idea of our body choosing a goal for us if we don't make a conscious one ourselves. Spot on.
Thank you for sharing this knowledge. I think I have learned from your newsletter more than I expected, and it is always a great feeling to read something and learn from it, get new ideas and perspectives, and awaken a new interest in how to do things better. You are a bright person, and that is always something to be thankful for. Congrats!
Was an awesome read :)
Thank you❤️
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I am rereading the classic novel A Room with a View, and one question that I keep asking myself as I read:
is there anything in modern life, especially in product design and UX design, that can be illuminated or even solved by the ideas this novel conveys?