Growth Rings

If you want to learn about learning, it depends which angle you are coming from. If you want the low hanging fruit, Tim Ferriss is your man. Author of “The 4-Hour Workweek”, he is all about hacking life to its bare essentials through self-experimentation. Finding entry points. Planting seeds. Variety and quantity unafraid of mistakes. Often the barriers to good enough to get 80% of the juice are quite superficial. If you want mastery, learning is about unlearning. Then Josh Waitzkin’s “The Art of Learning” is my bible. Stripping back. Finding out what is unnecessary. Simplifying. He calls it “making smaller circles”. Embodying knowledge requires autumns and winters. Periods of difficulty that show us what really matters. That allow the essential qualities to add another ring to mark another period survived. An essential part of endurance is the experience of having endured.