# How to become terrifyingly intelligent (with detailed steps)
**作者**: Hussain Ibarra
**日期**: 2026-09-09T13:29:21.000Z
**来源**: [https://x.com/HussainIbarra/status/2097678750422884382](https://x.com/HussainIbarra/status/2097678750422884382)
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You've been learning wrong your entire life.
In fact, most of what you've learned is useless. You'll never use it again in your life.
I'm someone who has an obsessive personality.
Every few weeks, I'd have something that completely consumes me.
5 years ago, it was perfumes.
I was 19 and broke, but I still managed to spend over $5,000 on perfumes. I had over 20 bottles (most of which I later gave away). I was convinced that I wanted to start my own fragrance company to the point that I was looking up programs in Italy so that I could become a perfumer one day.
At 20, I taught myself data science and programming while I was doing my engineering degree from scratch.
At 21, I was convinced that I wanted to stay in academia. I joined 2 research groups (while I was still doing my undergrad), enrolled in a master's program once I graduated, and went all in on engineering.
At 22, it was fitness. In the beginning, I was so addicted to weightlifting that I was training 2-3x a day. It wasn't ideal for muscle growth, but I didn't care. All I wanted to do was train.
At 23, it was a one-person. This is by far my biggest addiction. There is so much to learn when it comes to it:
- Sales
- Writing
- Automations
- Offer creation
- Communication
- Email marketing
- Content creation
- Client acquisition
- Product development
Now, at 24, I'm obsessed with one-person business, spirituality, running, and weightlifting.
That's all I do all day long.
I either read about ideas I find interesting, or I'm writing about ideas that I'm obsessed with, or I'm in the gym moving some heavy-ass weights, or I'm out running.
In short, because of my obsessive personality, I developed a knack for picking things up quickly.
I don't just want to talk about how you can learn faster, but also how you can remember what you learn for years to come, and how to create new, unique knowledge.
Because now, we live in the age of AI. Every month, things change. New skills come to the stage, old skills are phased out, jobs disappear, and new jobs that we never once thought of appear.
And your ability to learn quickly and adapt is everything.
Because in this way, you can never be replaced by AI. You'll simply adapt to whatever environment you live in.
So in this letter, I want to share with you a few ideas.
The first is that I want to talk about everything with learning and how you were taught how to learn was in fact, completely and utterly useless.
The second I want to share with you the process of how to learn any skill or topic in a week
Lastly, I want to share with you a concept that I discovered recently that has changed how I approach everything I do in life.
Let's begin:
# I - Everything that is wrong with the current educational system and society
Schools don't actually care if you learn a subject or not. All they care about is stuffing your mind with information (that you'll probably never use or even remember after a test).
They care about you taking standardized tests, increasing the country's average, and the country's ranking across the world for who has the smartest students (which are all based on who can memorize the most instead of testing you on your actual understanding).
The current learning education system's operating system is this: “Don't question what we teach you, just do as we say.”
This is because the current school system was created by factory owners during the Industrial Revolution.
They wanted trained, highly specialized workers to work the machines in their factories. Essentially, what they wanted was robots, but they didn't have the technology to create the robots, so they turned humans into robots.
True learning requires you to think deeply about the topics and proofs.
Schools don't allow you to question what they teach you. Because if you question it too deeply, you'll fall behind, repeat your year, and be labelled as a failure.
> Schools killed the desire of understanding and learning in people.
Universities don't actually prepare you for a job anymore. Qualifications are a thing of the past. They are obsolete.
The new credentials are your skills and public resume (social media).
Most degrees are bullshit degrees.
They are degrees where your work is judged by other “experts”, which is just another code word for a person who was too scared to go out of the system and challenge what he was taught. An “expert” is someone who did what he was told for decades.
Having the title of “expert” only impresses your boss (who is following orders of his own and trying to please his own boss).
A Value Creator does not care about your degrees.
They care if you can get the job done, if you have high agency, if you have high creativity, and good judgment. Those skills can't be taught in schools, as Naval would call it: specific knowledge.
Specific knowledge is knowledge that cannot be taught in schools but only taught through apprenticeships and through real-world experience.
High-value degrees are degrees where your work is judged by Nature or free markets.
- Engineering is a high-value degree because your building either stands or it doesn't
- Programming is a high-value degree because your code either runs and produces the right output, or it doesn't.
- Science is a high-value degree because your theories are either correct or they're not.
If you truly want to learn, you must go slowly. You must stop at every claim people make and stress test it.
Not many people have the willpower to do it. Most people just accept the first answer they come across and hold it as absolute truth.
This is why most of what people are shallow and have surface-level knowledge. They have not spent the time and effort to integrate that knowledge and develop their own perspective on it.
This brings me to my next point...
## II - The world is filled with intellectual idiots
There are 3 main types of people in this world:
1) The Ignorant
They don't understand a topic.
They also don't have an opinion (or their opinion is of that of the public). The ignorant also have no desire to learn or to improve.
They are comfortable in their own little delusional world.
2) The Intellectual Idiot
This is a concept I got from Nassim Taleb, but I want to adjust it slightly.
To me, an intellectual idiot is a person who learns for the sake of learning, not to benefit from what they're learning or benefit society with their knowledge.
They care more about sounding smart than actually being smart.
Most intellectual idiots don't have any skin in the game.
But they are the ones who constantly tell you:
1. What to do
2. What to think about
3. How to speak
4. How to act
5. Who to vote for
6. What to read
7. What to listen to
I can keep going, but I think you get the idea.
The intellectual idiot has a lot of information and facts that he can reference to sound smart, and usually, he fools people with it. But when it comes to actually applying that information in a real-world setting, they don't know what goes where.
They lack wisdom.
> Wisdom is your ability to correctly apply the right piece of information in its right situation.
3) The Value Creator
This is what the intellectual idiots hope and aspire to be like.
The Value Creator has knowledge and also has direct real-world experience. He is someone who actually has skin in the game.
So when it comes to leading a group, making key decisions, and teaching society, they do it from a place of competence.
The key difference between the Value Creator and the Intellectual Idiot is wisdom.
Wisdom is everything. Without it, what you're learning is just mental masturbation.
# III - How to become intelligent again
Facts are second-order to direct personal experience. This is why creativity is so valuable. Nobody can teach you how to be creative.
Reading the most popular books, latest scientific papers, or the most viral podcasts isn't a substitute for first-hand experience.
If you don't have experience, you're more likely to generate and say surface-level ideas, narratives, and opinions.
If you want to find the truth, look for experience.
Understanding is not a binary process. It's not as simple as “yes or no”. It has layers of depth which is only developed through experience.
Here is how you can master any skill in 2 weeks.
## 1) Create a vision
Before you begin to learn, you must know what the purpose of your learning is.
Are you learning a topic for the sake of learning? Or are you learning because you want to achieve a specific outcome?
Goals prime your mind. They tell you what to look for.
When you don't have a goal, you engage in linear learning. It's mental masturbation. Because you get to consume a lot of information, but you never get to use it because you don't know where to apply it to.
To know what piece of knowledge to apply and where, you'll need to live in the arena.
You need firsthand experience.
Instead of Googling “best skills to learn in 2026”, create a vision for your life. The perfect day that you could live day in and day out without getting bored.
From that vision, reverse-engineer the series of goals you need to complete to achieve that lifestyle.
Let your vision guide your learning.
## 2) Outline a project
From your vision, you can reverse-engineer the steps you need to take and the skills you need to acquire.
The best thing you can do is to create projects.
A project is a series of hierarchical goals.
They are outcome-based and are extremely hard to lie to yourself about the progress you're making.
You either built the product or you didn't.
You either launched the offer or you didn't.
You either posted the newsletter or you didn't.
When creating a project, you want to make sure you're playing at your level.
If you're level 7 trying to complete a level 100 mission, you'll get frustrated, anxious, and quit.
If you're level 100 doing quests that are for level 3, you'll get bored.
You need to choose something that is just outside your reach to create a healthy dose of stress to narrow your focus.
## 3) Don't memorize, connect
As you go throughout your week, your mind is primed with a goal.
This will keep your mind alert to any relevant piece of information that will help you achieve your goal.
When you come across a relevant piece of information, don't write it down and try to memorize it.
Your mind is not a vault. It's a spider web.
Each piece of information is a node. The lines connecting these nodes together are the paths you use.
- Big nodes = deep in knowledge
- Small nodes = shallow in knowledge
- Thick paths = a connection you frequently use.
- Thin paths = a connection you've made once.
You can't learn because you're too concerned with repeating what schools taught you.
You're too busy trying to be “factually correct” instead of actually learning.
Learning is a dynamic process. You must set a desired goal, act, fail, reflect, and iterate.
The way most people “learn” is by taking notes.
They would watch a tutorial, write a bunch of words down, highlight, use different colors and make it all look pretty, only to never look at it again.
Notes are a waste of time.
Why?
Because they're linear. They only serve you in that exact context.
But life doesn't work that way. An idea you learned from marketing can apply to relationships. A spiritual practice can be applied to businesses. You can transfer what you learn in the gym to real life, business, and relationships.
Everything is connected to each other.
When I was studying civil engineering, I would learn about transportation and roads and how to predict/reduce traffic.
From that, I learned how things can be applied to game theory. From game theory, I understood how people make decisions, and I could transfer all of that to business and even relationships.
Life is a giant spider web where everything affects everything else.
Even with my writing now, I can see how different ideas are connected.
A lesson from fitness can be applied to business. A marketing concept can be applied to relationships.
Here's how my Eden (my writing/second brain app looks like):
You can't learn because you're not spending effort to integrate the piece of information to your web. You can't see how it connects to the bigger picture of life.
> If it's important, you'll remember it. If you need to write it down, it isn't important.
When you find a solution to a problem, you have now gained new skills for your toolbox.
Use your current understanding of life to come up with your own proofs, conclusions, and theories about the same problem. Or try to extrapolate what you learned to the wider world and see how it connects with everything else.
## 4) Distill your learning with society
If you truly want to master something, you must write about it and teach it to others.
This requires a certain level of intellectual maturity that most people don't possess. Because most people are too concerned with “looking” more intelligent than actually being one.
Being intelligent means knowing how much you don't know. It means admitting that even though you know a lot, you are at the same time aware of how little you actually do know.
You must not be afraid of appearing “stupid” in public or what the world thinks. This is why I truly believe everyone should be writing a weekly newsletter where every week you find an interesting idea you want to learn more about, explore, and understand, and do everything in your power during that week to learn about it and synthesize what you've learned in a coherent newsletter.
Don't start a newsletter to make money from it (although you can). But start a newsletter so you can use it as a vehicle to discover the world, learn about it, and understand it.
The fastest way to test your knowledge: Teach your topic to a 6-year-old without using any jargon.
Richard Feynman had such a great fundamental understanding of math that he could take you from basic addition and subtraction to calculus in just 6 pages with one continuous logic.
This is extremely hard to do because it requires you to understand your topic on a fundamental level (which most people haven't). This is why you need to write more about your topic to understand it.
You need to gain real-life experience.
The only way you can do it is to live in the arena.
## 5) Inject your perspective
Your goal isn't just to learn. Your goal is to create unique knowledge.
Every person eventually becomes a philosopher.
Everyone is trying to live “the good life”. Everyone's definition of “the good life” is different. This is why you need to create your own philosophy and explanations.
Use existing knowledge to build and create new knowledge.
When you're learning, write from your own perspective. When you're sharing your discoveries and theories with the world, leverage principles from persuasion, storytelling, and marketing to make it interesting for others to read.
Do what you love, but study marketing, sales, persuasion, human nature, and game theory.
Learn the skills that help translate what you have inside of you to the outer world. Learn the skills that spread your ideas, get your work discovered, induce behavior change, and make the world a better place.
## 6) 10,000 iterations, not 10,000 hours
Most people don't have 10 years of experience. They have 1 year of experience repeated 10 times.
The true unit of mastery and learning isn't time spent. It's loops completed.
The way AI models were developed is through learning loops.
Science, for a matter of fact, is built entirely through learning loops.
Learning loop is just another way of saying Trial and error.
You set a hypothesis, design an experiment, isolate as many variables as you can, get results, analyze, adjust, repeat.
This is why you must always pause, reflect, and iterate.
It's extremely easy to get sucked into a robotic cycle, doing the same tasks day in and day out, sucked into a robotic cycle, doing the same tasks day in and day out.
If you truly want to improve, learn faster, and master a skill, you must always iterate. You must become a student of life.
This is very hard to do because it means you must put your ego aside and be honest with yourself.
After I hit publish on every newsletter, I immediately tell myself: “I could've done a better job.”
But this is the beauty of life.
You are always learning. Always improving. Always evolving.
Can you imagine living a life where nothing changes?
What a boring life that is!
# IV - Live in the arena
Most of the learning happens on the job.
You learn by doing. When you do, you create the desire to learn which leads to learning. And there's also the learning that comes from the doing itself.
To become a great writer, you must write.
To become a great painter, you must paint.
To become a great marketer, you must find a product you believe in and market it.
Feedback from other people is usually fake. Awards are fake. Degrees are fake. Compliments from your friends are fake.
The only true feedback you get is from nature and free markets.
Your airplane design either flies or it doesn't. Your product either sells or it doesn't. You cannot manipulate the laws of physics or free markets, which means the only way for you to truly get good at something (and know that you're good at it) is to live in the arena. To build something of value and sell it in free markets.
“But Hussain, I don't have experience to start.”
Well, how are you supposed to gain experience?
To gain experience, you must start. If nobody will hire you or will want to work with you, work for yourself. Become your own boss.
Why do you always need to work for someone else?
You now live in the most interesting times. You have access to AI. AI has lowered the barrier to entry to almost any field now.
You have the smartest and most patient teacher. It can meet you exactly at the level you're at.
You can build anything, do anything, become anyone. The opportunities are now endless. Which is both a bad and good thing.
It's bad because it means people are now drowning in AI slop.
Just because you can create more, it doesn't inherently make it more valuable. Because of this, people will naturally go to the #1 app and get it to avoid all slop which leaves everyone else (who's trying to do the same) fighting for scraps.
But there's also an upside to AI.
Because every person is unique, it means there are infinite desires to be fulfilled, infinite niches, infinite markets.
So you can absolutely be the biggest player in a small pocket of the internet and be very profitable.
How do you do that?
By getting in the arena.
You're going to try everything.
You're going to learn a bunch of skills, try hundreds of business models, and build a ton of products, and through the process of elimination and chasing your genuine curiosity, you'll find what you're naturally good at.
The only way you can do this is by getting in the arena.
I'll leave you with one final thought:
> You receive knowledge at the level you're at.
If you're at level 5 and you read a book that's intended for people at level 100, you'll only understand concepts at level 5 and nothing more (maybe level 6 if you're lucky). But you're never going to understand it fully because you're not at the awareness level to understand it.
Which is why you need to live in the arena.
Because you can read more about the topic and have AI explain it to you, but you'll only internalize the lessons and truly understand them once you have direct feedback.
Get in the arena.
Thank you for reading.
Enjoy the rest of your day.
Hussain
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## 中文翻译
# 如何变得可怕地聪明（附详细步骤）
**作者**: Hussain Ibarra
**日期**: 2026-09-09T13:29:21.000Z
**来源**: [https://x.com/HussainIbarra/status/2097678750422884382](https://x.com/HussainIbarra/status/2097678750422884382)
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你这辈子的学习方式都是错的。
事实上，你学到的大部分东西都没什么用。你这辈子再也不会用到它们。
我是一个有强迫型人格的人。
每隔几周，我就会有一件事完全占据我的全部身心。
5 年前，那是香水。
我当时 19 岁，身无分文，却还是花了 5000 多美元买香水。我有 20 多瓶（后来大部分都送人了）。我当时坚信自己要创办一家自己的香水公司，以至于我都在查意大利的课程，想着有一天能成为一名调香师。
20 岁时，我在从头攻读工程学位的同时，自学了数据科学和编程。
21 岁时，我坚信自己想留在学术界。我加入了两个研究小组（当时我还在读本科），毕业后又攻读了一个硕士项目，全力投入工程领域。
22 岁时，是健身。起初，我对举重上瘾到一天训练 2-3 次。这对增肌来说并不理想，但我不在乎。我只想训练。
23 岁时，是一人公司。这是迄今为止我最上瘾的事。其中有太多东西要学：
- 销售
- 写作
- 自动化
- 产品打造
- 沟通
- 邮件营销
- 内容创作
- 客户获取
- 产品开发
现在，24 岁的我沉迷于一人生意、灵性、跑步和举重。
这就是我整天做的所有事。
我要么在阅读我感兴趣的想法，要么在写我痴迷的想法，要么在健身房举起重得要死的重量，要么在外面跑步。
简而言之，由于我的强迫型人格，我培养出了快速掌握事物的诀窍。
我不仅想谈谈如何学得更快，还想谈谈如何把你学到的东西记住多年，以及如何创造新的、独特的知识。
因为现在，我们生活在 AI 时代。每个月，一切都在变化。新技能登上舞台，旧技能被淘汰，工作消失，而我们从未想过的新工作出现了。
你快速学习和适应的能力就是一切。
因为这样一来，你永远不会被 AI 取代。你只会适应你所处的任何环境。
所以在这封信中，我想和你分享几个观点。
第一，我想谈谈关于学习的一切，以及你被教导的学习方式实际上是完全彻底无用的。
第二，我想和你分享如何在一周内学会任何技能或主题的方法。
最后，我想和你分享我最近发现的一个概念，它改变了我对待生活中所有事情的方式。
让我们开始：
# I - 当前教育体系和社会的一切问题
学校其实并不在乎你是否学会了一门科目。他们只在乎往你脑子里塞满信息（你很可能永远不会用到，甚至在考试后就不记得了）。
他们在乎的是你参加标准化考试，提高国家的平均水平，以及提高这个国家在“谁拥有最聪明学生”方面的世界排名（这些全都基于谁记得最多，而不是测试你真正的理解能力）。
当前学习教育体系的操作系统是：“不要质疑我们教你的东西，照我们说的做。”
这是因为当前的学校体系是工业革命时期的工厂主们创立的。
他们想要受过训练、高度专业化的工人来操作他们工厂里的机器。本质上，他们想要的是机器人，但他们没有制造机器人的技术，于是他们把人类变成了机器人。
真正的学习要求你深入思考这些主题和证明。
学校不允许你质疑他们教你的东西。因为如果你质疑得太深，你就会落后、留级，并被贴上失败者的标签。
> 学校扼杀了人们理解和学习的欲望。
大学实际上已经不能为你就业做准备了。学历已成过去。它们已经过时了。
新的资质是你的技能和公开履历（社交媒体）。
大多数学位都是扯淡的学位。
这些学位中，你的工作由其他“专家”评判，而“专家”不过是另一个委婉说法，指的是那些太害怕走出体制、不敢挑战所学内容的人。“专家”就是那个几十年来别人说什么他就做什么的人。
拥有“专家”头衔只能打动你的老板（而你的老板自己也在服从命令，努力讨好他自己的老板）。
价值创造者不在乎你的学位。
他们在乎的是你能否完成工作，你是否具有高能动性、高创造力和良好的判断力。这些技能学校教不了，正如 Naval 所说的：特定知识。
特定知识是无法在学校里教授的，只能通过学徒制和真实世界的经验来传授。
高价值的学位是那些由大自然或自由市场来评判你工作成果的学位。
- 工程学是高价值学位，因为你建造的东西要么立得住，要么立不住。
- 编程是高价值学位，因为你的代码要么能运行并产生正确的输出，要么不能。
- 科学是高价值学位，因为你的理论要么正确，要么不正确。
如果你真心想学习，你必须放慢速度。你必须停下来审视人们提出的每一个论断，并对它进行压力测试。
没有多少人有这样的意志力。大多数人只是接受他们遇到的第一个答案，并将其奉为绝对真理。
这就是为什么大多数人的知识浅薄、只停留在表面。他们没有花时间和精力去整合这些知识，并形成自己对其的观点。
这就引出了我的下一个观点……
## II - 这个世界充满了智识上的白痴
世界上主要有三种人：
1）无知者
他们不理解某个主题。
他们也没有自己的观点（或者他们的观点就是大众的观点）。无知者也没有学习或进步的欲望。
他们在自己小小的妄想世界里感到舒适。
2）智识白痴
这个概念来自纳西姆·塔勒布，但我想稍微调整一下。
在我看来，智识白痴是为了学习而学习的人，而不是为了从所学中受益或用自己的知识造福社会。
他们更在乎听起来聪明，而不是真正聪明。
大多数智识白痴没有任何切身利益在里面。
但他们却总是不断地告诉你：
1. 该做什么
2. 该思考什么
3. 该怎么说话
4. 该怎么行事
5. 该投谁的票
6. 该读什么
7. 该听什么
我可以继续说下去，但我想你已经明白了。
智识白痴掌握大量信息和事实，可以引用来显得聪明，而且通常他确实能用这些唬住别人。但一旦要在真实世界中实际运用这些信息，他们就不知道该把它们放在哪里了。
他们缺乏智慧。
> 智慧是你把正确的信息在正确的情境中正确应用的能力。
3）价值创造者
这是智识白痴们所希望和向往成为的人。
价值创造者拥有知识，同时也拥有直接的现实世界经验。他是真正有切身利益在里面的人。
所以在领导团队、做出关键决策和教化社会时，他们是从胜任力的角度出发的。
价值创造者和智识白痴之间的关键区别在于智慧。
智慧就是一切。没有智慧，你学到的东西不过是精神自慰。
# III - 如何重新变得聪明
事实是第二位的，直接的个人经验才是第一位的。这就是为什么创造力如此宝贵。没有人能教你如何变得有创造力。
阅读最畅销的书、最新的科学论文或最火爆的播客，都无法替代第一手的经验。
如果你没有经验，你就更容易产生和表达浅薄的想法、叙事和观点。
如果你想找到真相，就去寻找经验。
理解不是一个二元的 processes。它不是简单的“是或否”。它有层层深度，只有通过经验才能发展出来。
下面是你如何在 2 周内掌握任何技能的方法。
## 1）创建一个愿景
在开始学习之前，你必须知道你学习的目的是什么。
你是在为了学习而学习一个主题？还是因为你想要实现某个特定的结果而学习？
目标会启动你的大脑。它们告诉你该寻找什么。
当你没有目标时，你就是在进行线性学习。那是精神自慰。因为你会消费大量信息，但你永远不会用到它们，因为你不知道把它们应用到哪里。
要知道应用哪一块知识、应用到哪里，你需要活在竞技场中。
你需要第一手的经验。
与其搜索“2026 年最值得学的技能”，不如为你的人生创建一个愿景。一个你可以日复一日生活而不感到无聊的完美日子。
从这个愿景出发，逆向推导出你需要完成的一系列目标来实现那种生活方式。
让你的愿景指引你的学习。
## 2）规划一个项目
从你的愿景出发，你可以逆向推导出你需要采取的步骤和需要掌握的技能。
你能做的最好的事情就是创建项目。
项目是一系列分层次的目标。
它们以结果为导向，而且极难在进度上自欺欺人。
你要么做出了产品，要么没做出。
你要么发布了产品，要么没发布。
你要么发布了时事通讯，要么没发布。
在创建项目时，你要确保自己在与自身水平相匹配的层次上进行。
如果你是 7 级却试图完成 100 级的任务，你会沮丧、焦虑，然后放弃。
如果你是 100 级却在做 3 级的任务，你会感到无聊。
你需要选择一些恰好超出你能力范围的东西，制造健康剂量的压力，以收窄你的注意力。
## 3）不要死记，要连接
当你的这一周进行下去时，你的大脑被一个目标所启动。
这会让你的大脑对任何有助于你实现目标的相关信息保持警觉。
当你遇到一条相关的信息时，不要把它写下来试图背诵。
你的大脑不是一个保险库。它是一张蜘蛛网。
每条信息都是一个节点。连接这些节点的线条就是你使用的路径。
- 大节点 = 知识深厚
- 小节点 = 知识浅薄
- 粗路径 = 你经常使用的连接。
- 细路径 = 你只用过一次的连接。
你学不会，是因为你太执着于重复学校教你的那一套。
你太忙着追求“事实正确”，而不是真正地学习。
学习是一个动态的过程。你必须设定目标、行动、失败、反思、迭代。
大多数人“学习”的方式是做笔记。
他们会看一个教程，写下一大堆字，划重点，用不同的颜色，把一切都弄得漂漂亮亮，结果却再也不看一眼。
笔记是浪费时间。
为什么？
因为它们是线性的。它们只在那个特定的情境中对你有用。
但生活不是这样运作的。你从营销中学到的一个想法可以应用到人际关系中。一种灵性练习可以应用到生意上。你在健身房学到的东西可以转移到现实生活、生意和人际关系中。
万物皆相连。
我学土木工程的时候，学习交通运输和道路，以及如何预测/减少交通流量。
由此，我学到了这些东西如何应用到博弈论。从博弈论中，我理解了人们如何做决策，而我可以把这一切转移到商业，甚至人际关系中。
生活是一张巨大的蜘蛛网，一切都影响其他一切。
即使是我现在的写作，我也能看到不同的想法是如何相互关联的。
健身课上的一个道理可以应用到生意上。一个营销概念可以应用到人际关系中。
这是我的 Eden（我的写作/第二大脑应用）的样子：
你学不会，是因为你没有花力气把这条信息整合到你的网中。你看不到它如何与生活这个更大的图景相连接。
> 如果它重要，你会记住它。如果你需要把它写下来，那它就不重要。
当你找到一个问题的解决方案时，你就为自己的工具箱获得了新技能。
运用你目前对生活的理解，就同一个问题提出你自己的证明、结论和理论。或者尝试把所学外推到更广阔的世界，看看它如何与其他一切相连接。
## 4）向社会检验你的所学
如果你真心想掌握某样东西，你必须把它写出来，并教给他人。
这需要一定程度的智识成熟度，而大多数人不具备。因为大多数人太在乎“看起来”聪明，而不是真正成为聪明人。
聪明意味着知道自己不知道多少。它意味着承认，尽管你知道很多，但同时也意识到你真正知道的有多么少。
你不要害怕在公众面前显得“愚蠢”，也不要在乎世界怎么想。这就是为什么我真心认为每个人都应该写每周时事通讯：每周你找一个想深入了解、探索和理解的有意思的想法，然后在那周内竭尽全力去学习它，并把你学到的东西综合成一篇连贯的时事通讯。
开时事通讯不是为了赚钱（尽管你可以赚钱）。而是把它当作一个载体，去发现世界、了解世界、理解世界。
检验你知识的最快方法：把你的主题讲给一个 6 岁的孩子听，不使用任何行话。
理查德·费曼对数学有着如此精深的基础理解，他能用仅仅 6 页连续的逻�辑，带你从基础的加减法一路讲到微积分。
这极其困难，因为它要求你在基础层面理解你的主题（大多数人都没有做到）。这就是为什么你需要围绕你的主题写更多东西来理解它。
你需要获得现实生活的经验。
而做到这一点的唯一方法就是活在竞技场中。
## 5）注入你的视角
你的目标不仅仅是学习。你的目标是创造独特的知识。
每个人最终都会成为哲学家。
每个人都在努力过上“美好的生活”。每个人对“美好的生活”的定义都不同。这就是为什么你需要创造自己的哲学和解释。
利用现有的知识来构建和创造新知识。
学习时，从你自己的视角写作。当你与世界分享你的发现和理论时，运用说服、讲故事和营销的原则，让别人读起来觉得有趣。
做你热爱的事，但要研究营销、销售、说服、人性和博弈论。
学习那些能帮助你把内心的东西转化到外部世界的技能。学习那些能传播你的想法、让你的作品被发现、引发行为改变、让世界变得更美好的技能。
## 6）一万次迭代，而不是一万小时
大多数人没有 10 年的经验。他们只有 1 年的经验重复了 10 次。
掌握和学习的真正单位不是花费的时间，而是完成的循环次数。
AI 模型的开发方式就是通过学习循环。
事实上，科学本身就是完全通过学习循环建立起来的。
学习循环只是“试错”的另一种说法。
你提出假设，设计实验，尽可能隔离变量，得到结果，分析，调整，重复。
这就是为什么你必须始终停下来、反思、迭代。
人很容易陷入机械的循环，日复一日做着同样的任务，陷入机械的循环，日复一日做着同样的任务。
如果你真心想进步、学得更快、掌握一项技能，你必须始终迭代。你必须成为生活的学生。
这很难做到，因为这意味着你必须把自我放在一边，对自己诚实。
每次发布完时事通讯，我立刻会告诉自己：“我本可以做得更好。”
但这正是生活的美妙之处。
你总是在学习。总是在进步。总是在进化。
你能想象一成不变的生活吗？
那将是多么无聊的生活啊！
# IV - 活在竞技场中
大部分学习都发生在工作中。
你在做中学。当你去做的时候，你会产生学习的欲望，从而带来学习。此外，做这件事本身也会带来学习。
要成为伟大的作家，你必须写作。
要成为伟大的画家，你必须画画。
要成为伟大的营销者，你必须找到一个你相信的产品并推销它。
来自他人的反馈通常是虚假的。奖项是虚假的。学位是虚假的。来自朋友的恭维是虚假的。
你唯一得到的真实反馈来自大自然和自由市场。
你的飞机设计要么能飞，要么不能。你的产品要么卖得出去，要么卖不出去。你无法操纵物理定律或自由市场，这意味着你真正擅长某件事（并且知道自己擅长）的唯一方式就是活在竞技场中。去创造有价值的东西，并在自由市场上出售它。
“可是 Hussain，我没有经验，没法开始。”
那么，你打算怎么获得经验呢？
要获得经验，你必须开始。如果没有人雇用你或愿意与你合作，那就为你自己工作。成为你自己的老板。
为什么你总是需要为别人工作？
你如今生活在最有趣的时代。你可以使用 AI。AI 已经把几乎任何领域的准入门槛都降低了。
你拥有最聪明、最有耐心的老师。它可以精确地在你所处的水平上与你会合。
你可以构建任何东西，做任何事情，成为任何人。机会现在是无穷无尽的。这既是坏事，也是好事。
说它坏，是因为人们现在正淹没在 AI 垃圾内容中。
仅仅因为你能创造更多东西，并不必然使它更有价值。正因为如此，人们会自然地涌向排名第一的应用来避开所有垃圾内容，这让其他所有做同样事情的人只能争夺残羹剩饭。
但 AI 也有好的一面。
因为每个人都是独特的，这意味着有无限的欲望需要被满足、无限的利基、无限的市场。
所以你完全可以成为互联网上一个小角落里的最大玩家，并获得可观的利润。
你怎么做到呢？
通过进入竞技场。
你将去尝试一切。
你将学习一大堆技能，尝试数百种商业模式，构建大量产品，并通过排除法和追随你真正的好奇心，你会找到你天生擅长的事情。
你做到这一点的唯一方法就是进入竞技场。
最后留给你一个思考：
> 你只能接收到与你的水平相匹配的知识。
如果你在 5 级，读了一本为 100 级的人写的书，你只会理解 5 级的概念，仅此而已（运气好的话也许能到 6 级）。但你永远无法完全理解它，因为你的认知水平还不足以理解它。
这就是为什么你需要活在竞技场中。
因为你可以阅读更多关于这个主题的内容，让 AI 向你解释，但只有当你获得直接反馈时，你才会真正内化这些教训并真正理解它们。
进入竞技场吧。
感谢阅读。
祝你今天愉快。
Hussain
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