Toan Truong

I homeschooled, graduated at 16 & got my bachelor's at 18. Now writing about education, learning science, psychology, and sociology. Writer at @GeniusGTX.

[Toan Truong @LearningToan]

I'm 18.

I’m obsessed with learning how to learn.

So, I spent 200+ hours studying how geniuses, prodigies, and high performers master their disciplines.

Here's what I found on how to master anything faster:

[Toan Truong @LearningToan]

A college student admits why she quietly mixes AI into every paper she writes

"The use of text that's like both AI and human is increasingly common"

"I think like when I'm writing a paper like you know I'm reading over for you know grammar and you know spelling issues but I think AI you know is reading over and can pick up on those things"

"So especially when our grades are you know based on you know how many you know spelling errors you have I feel like there's an incentive to use AI to catch those little things"

"And so um I think I definitely submit a little bit more mixed writing just to like review my writing a little bit thoroughly"

Hi! If you're new here, I'm Toan. I homeschooled at 15, graduated at 16, and got my bachelor's at 18.

Now I write about education, learning science, and psychology. Also building @GeniusGTX.

Follow me at @LearningToan if that interests you.

And if you're building something in EdTech or education, I'd love to catch up and hear what you're working on.

Jubilee Middle Ground panelist, student, on Jubilee's Middle Ground

[Toan Truong @LearningToan]

College students tried to spot AI-written text and got fooled by a single punctuation mark

"So, I think what makes me believe this is not AI is there's not an Oxford comma. I think that is a very stylistic choice"

"I'll say the M dashes threw me off. I think that's something that AI uses a lot, but um I'm really banking on that Oxford comma this one"

"A human did write the mouth"

Hi! If you're new here, I'm Toan. I homeschooled at 15, graduated at 16, and got my bachelor's at 18.

Now I write about education, learning science, and psychology. Also building @GeniusGTX.

Follow me at @LearningToan if that interests you.

And if you're building something in EdTech or education, I'd love to catch up and hear what you're working on.

Students and professors on Jubilee's Middle Ground

[Toan Truong @LearningToan]

A trip to India revealed how much families were sacrificing just to get their kids tutoring help

"So study mode actually came out of a trip that our team took in India"

"They realized that in a place like India, families were spending a huge percentage of their per capita income on tutors and after school help"

"They also realized that there was just a tremendous will and desire among young people to get to the next level"

"So we began this journey of like what would it take to actually get ChatGPT and turn ChatGPT into an even better tutor than it already is"

Hi! If you're new here, I'm Toan. I homeschooled at 15, graduated at 16, and got my bachelor's at 18.

Now I write about education, learning science, and psychology. Also building @GeniusGTX.

Follow me at @LearningToan if that interests you.

And if you're building something in EdTech or education, I'd love to catch up and hear what you're working on.

Leah Belsky, head of education at OpenAI, on the OpenAI Podcast

[Toan Truong @LearningToan]

OpenAI's education lead says AI's biggest impact isn't in the classroom, it's replacing the private tutors rich kids could always afford

"Look, I think the first place where AI is having a huge impact in education is not even in the classroom. It's outside of the classroom where it's equalizing access to what's really like adult support."

"There are many students out in the world who don't have access to a quality teacher. They don't have access to tutors. they don't have access to parents who are going to sit down and help them. And now with AI, they can have this companion who can encourage them, who can give feedback on their homework, on their writing, who can help help them answer tough questions."

"One thing that really struck me is they said using using AI gave them confidence."

"She started to feel like, 'Oh, I can ask questions. I can understand this. Like I have confidence and maybe I can actually continue and move forward.'"

If you're new here, follow @LearningToan for the sharpest lessons from the world's best minds.

— Leah Belsky, head of education at OpenAI, on the OpenAI Podcast

[Toan Truong @LearningToan]

OpenAI's head of education says countries aren't just adopting AI for schools, they're doing it out of economic fear

"What's interesting is that when the countries come to us, you know, they're coming to us because they want to deploy AI as core infrastructure through their education system, but they're also coming to us because they're feeling like the impact of an economic transition"

"And they're realizing that if they are going to be developing an AI powered economy, they need to graduate a workforce that need learns how to use AI"

"It's not just about creating new AI courses, they need to make sure that every student who leads their secondary school system has used AI as part of their class"

"They want to be successful in a new AI powered economy and they want to improve their education system"

Hi! If you're new here, I'm Toan. I homeschooled at 15, graduated at 16, and got my bachelor's at 18.

Now I write about education, learning science, and psychology. Also building @GeniusGTX.

Follow me at @LearningToan if that interests you.

And if you're building something in EdTech or education, I'd love to catch up and hear what you're working on.

Leah Belsky, head of education at OpenAI, on the OpenAI Podcast

[Toan Truong @LearningToan]

OpenAI's head of education admits schools handled AI completely backwards from day one

"I mentioned this before like I was frustrated because like the AI detectors were terrible"

"there were these AI detector like one I could show somebody how to write text that would be flagged as AI and also how to prompt a thing to avoid it"

"you take one or two students who didn't cheat and told they're cheaters"

"we got off onto the wrong foot with AI in the classroom. Instead of trying to be explicit and establish clear policies on when students should use the tech and when they shouldn't, teachers sort of hid from it"

"we started with policing its use rather than actually sitting there and figuring out how do we actually want to redesign the way we assess students"

Hi! If you're new here, I'm Toan. I homeschooled at 15, graduated at 16, and got my bachelor's at 18.

Now I write about education, learning science, and psychology. Also building @GeniusGTX.

Follow me at @LearningToan if that interests you.

And if you're building something in EdTech or education, I'd love to catch up and hear what you're working on.

Leah Belsky, head of education at OpenAI, on the OpenAI Podcast.

[Toan Truong @LearningToan]

A VC dinner named the only three personality types behind the best entrepreneurs

"I was at a dinner with some top VCs. I was hosting a seminar, actually. And they basically agreed that of their best entrepreneurs, only three types of people."

"Autism, megalomania, revenge."

"That might be an exaggeration, but there's some truth to that, I think, where oftentimes the best parts of society are built by the worst parts of man."

Hi! If you're new here, I'm Toan. I homeschooled at 15, graduated at 16, and got my bachelor's at 18.

Now I write about education, learning science, and psychology. Also building @GeniusGTX.

Follow me at @LearningToan if that interests you.

And if you're building something in EdTech or education, I'd love to catch up and hear what you're working on.

Jonathan Bi, founding member of Cosmos, interviewing McKenzie Price, co-founder of Alpha School, on his channel.

[Toan Truong @LearningToan]

A Harvard study found students learned physics better from an AI tutor than from a Harvard professor

"I could absolutely see that hundred-level lecture-based classes"

"All replaced by AI"

"Harvard just did a study in late 2024 that showed that students in a physics class had deeper levels of engagement and performed better with an AI tutor than with a Harvard professor"

"The other big thing that they got to do was they spent more time in group discussions"

Hi! If you're new here, I'm Toan. I homeschooled at 15, graduated at 16, and got my bachelor's at 18.

Now I write about education, learning science, and psychology. Also building @GeniusGTX.

Follow me at @LearningToan if that interests you.

And if you're building something in EdTech or education, I'd love to catch up and hear what you're working on.

McKenzie Price, co-founder of Alpha School, on Jonathan Bi's show

[GeniusThinking @GeniusGTX]

This mathematician built the AI company that started the image-generation boom, Stability AI.

On André Duqum's podcast, he shared 8 bold predictions on how AI changes humanity:

1) Desk jobs will be replaced by it in 1,000 days

[Toan Truong @LearningToan]

A college student argues the American education system was never built to prepare black and brown students for higher education at all

"I think that the American education system does prepare black and brown people to go to jail"

"You don't have access to the same AP classes depending on where your school is located. You don't have the same textbooks. You don't have the same teachers that have the same salary to have the same passion to teach you"

"I do think it sets you up to either go to jail or to become an employee"

Hi! If you're new here, I'm Toan. I homeschooled at 15, graduated at 16, and got my bachelor's at 18.

Now I write about education, learning science, and psychology. Also building @GeniusGTX.

Follow me at @LearningToan if that interests you.

And if you're building something in EdTech or education, I'd love to catch up and hear what you're working on.

Students and professors on Jubilee's Middle Ground

[Toan Truong @LearningToan]

A college student says the American education system prepares black and brown kids for jail, not for higher ed...

"I think that the American education system does prepare black and brown people to go to jail"

"you have teachers that behave as wardens and you have a school bell that's going to ring every couple hours for you to go to lunch for 30 minutes to go back to class"

"I do think it sets you up to either go to jail or to become an employee"

"I don't know if I think our current education system sets us all up for the future that we want"

If you're new here, follow @LearningToan for the sharpest lessons from the world's best minds.

— Jubilee panelist, college student, on Jubilee's Middle Ground

[Toan Truong @LearningToan]

College students tried to spot AI-written text and got fooled by a single punctuation mark

"So, I think what makes me believe this is not AI is there's not an Oxford comma. I think that is a very stylistic choice"

"I'll say the M dashes threw me off. I think that's something that AI uses a lot, but um I'm really banking on that Oxford comma this one"

"A human did write the mouth"

Hi! If you're new here, I'm Toan. I homeschooled at 15, graduated at 16, and got my bachelor's at 18.

Now I write about education, learning science, and psychology. Also building @GeniusGTX.

Follow me at @LearningToan if that interests you.

And if you're building something in EdTech or education, I'd love to catch up and hear what you're working on.

Students and professors on Jubilee's Middle Ground

[Toan Truong @LearningToan]

An education researcher says the anti-cheating tools schools bought to stop AI are already broken

"Kids will find a way no matter what. Kids will find a way. We cannot out maneuver them with technology."

"So, so the first response when Gen AI came in was ban it, block it, get anti-ag plagiarism checkers in, which are which are bad by the way."

"Like I talked to one kid who showed me he had this essay um and the plagiarism checker flagged 40% of it and he changed two words and then it went away. It was all he's all good."

Hi! If you're new here, I'm Toan. I homeschooled at 15, graduated at 16, and got my bachelor's at 18.

Now I write about education, learning science, and psychology. Also building @GeniusGTX.

Follow me at @LearningToan if that interests you.

And if you're building something in EdTech or education, I'd love to catch up and hear what you're working on.

Rebecca Winthrop, director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institute, on Ezra Klein's The Ezra Klein Show.

[Toan Truong @LearningToan]

Whatever it takes, find your escape velocity.

That’s the tweet.

[Toan Truong @LearningToan]

You can tell if a school is ideologically captured just by touring it once

"you can take tours of these schools and you can pick up pretty easily if they're completely overrun with ideological teachers"

"because you take a tour and look at the posters, look at the art the kids are doing. If there's equity anywhere, then you know that the school's a problem"

"they don't keep it a secret cuz they're proud of it"

"if you find a school and you don't see it anywhere, chances are that's a more conservative school or just a not as ideological school"

Hi! If you're new here, I'm Toan. I homeschooled at 15, graduated at 16, and got my bachelor's at 18.

Now I write about education, learning science, and psychology. Also building @GeniusGTX.

Follow me at @LearningToan if that interests you.

And if you're building something in EdTech or education, I'd love to catch up and hear what you're working on.

Jordan Peterson, clinical psychologist and professor, on Jordan Peterson's Answer the Call

[Toan Truong @LearningToan]

Jordan Peterson says most teachers can't explain why the subject they teach even matters...

"My experience in school was and this included university was that it was often the case that the teachers who were attempting to impart information actually had no idea whatsoever why what they were teaching was good for anything"

"I especially remember that in mathematics because I would ask the educator why I needed to know this and they didn't know"

"Well, if you don't know what it's good for, why should I be interested in it?"

If you're new here, follow @LearningToan for the sharpest lessons from the world's best minds.

— Jordan B Peterson ( @jordanbpeterson ), clinical psychologist, on Jordan B Peterson's ( @jordanbpeterson ) Answer the Call

[Toan Truong @LearningToan]

The average American schoolkid gets this many minutes of recess per day

"They get, uh, a ton of just like unstructured outdoor play time, which, by the way, school should have. Did you know that the average amount of recess per day in schools in the US, can you guess how many minutes they get?"

"22 minutes a day. 22 minutes of recess."

"When you think about what kids like about school, you know, usually you'll get the same kind of few comments when you say, 'Do you like school? What do you like about it?' They'll say, 'Recess, PE, lunch, and my friends.'"

Hi! If you're new here, I'm Toan. I homeschooled at 15, graduated at 16, and got my bachelor's at 18.

Now I write about education, learning science, and psychology. Also building @GeniusGTX.

Follow me at @LearningToan if that interests you.

And if you're building something in EdTech or education, I'd love to catch up and hear what you're working on.

Mackenzie Price, founder of Alpha School, on Chris Williamson's ( @ChrisWillx ) Modern Wisdom.

[Toan Truong @LearningToan]

A researcher found the average teacher spends this many seconds one-on-one with each student per day

"I read a research study that showed the average amount of time that a teacher is spending with a student in the traditional school environment, 22 seconds per day"

"22 seconds. One-on-one."

"The majority of time is them talking to a group, right? Talking to a group versus one-on-one."

"So, the thing about an AI tutor, it doesn't care if you're white or black or brown. It doesn't care if you're rich or poor. It doesn't care if you're in the 15th percentile or the 85th percentile. It's infinitely patient."

Hi! If you're new here, I'm Toan. I homeschooled at 15, graduated at 16, and got my bachelor's at 18.

Now I write about education, learning science, and psychology. Also building @GeniusGTX.

Follow me at @LearningToan if that interests you.

And if you're building something in EdTech or education, I'd love to catch up and hear what you're working on.

McKinsey Price, co-founder of Alpha School, on Jonathan Bi's YouTube channel

[Toan Truong @LearningToan]

A mom's own daughter broke her heart with four words about school

"Halfway through second grade my daughter came home from school and she looked at me and she said, 'I don't want to go to school tomorrow.' I said, 'What do you mean? You love school.' And she just looked at me and she's like, 'School is so boring.'"

"I mean, I just had this moment of like, oh my gosh, in two and a half years, they've taken a kid who is like tailor made to love school and be interested and want to learn and they've wiped that passion away."

"She looked at me and she's like, 'Mackenzie, this is like trying to steer the Titanic. It just can't be done.' And I knew at that point like this is my call to exit."

Hi! If you're new here, I'm Toan. I homeschooled at 15, graduated at 16, and got my bachelor's at 18.

Now I write about education, learning science, and psychology. Also building @GeniusGTX.

Follow me at @LearningToan if that interests you.

And if you're building something in EdTech or education, I'd love to catch up and hear what you're working on.

Mackenzie Price, founder of Alpha School, on Chris Williamson's ( @ChrisWillx ) Modern Wisdom.

[Toan Truong @LearningToan]

An economist's data shows why kids stopped caring about grades or college entirely

"If what they're being taught isn't actually preparing them for the workforce and will barely help them get a job, what reason do they have to discipline themselves?"

"Punishments don't work because they don't care about them. They don't care about grades. They don't care about college."

"It's like you are interacting with them briefly in between hits of the internet."

"The average cost of public higher education adjusted for inflation has soared while the job market has simultaneously gotten harder and harder for new grads."

Hi! If you're new here, I'm Toan. I homeschooled at 15, graduated at 16, and got my bachelor's at 18.

Now I write about education, learning science, and psychology. Also building @GeniusGTX.

Follow me at @LearningToan if that interests you.

And if you're building something in EdTech or education, I'd love to catch up and hear what you're working on.

Cole Hastings, creator of Cole Hastings on YouTube

[Toan Truong @LearningToan]

An hour a day with a cheap iPad produced three years of learning gains in one year

"the introduction of relatively lowcost computational devices iPads let's say... in third world countries an hour a day very very inexpensive produces a three-year improvement in learning over the course of one year"

"we have no idea how challenged children are going to be to learn by teaching systems that will be optimized at their level of skill"

"I think everyone's going to be learning by AI"

Hi! If you're new here, I'm Toan. I homeschooled at 15, graduated at 16, and got my bachelor's at 18.

Now I write about education, learning science, and psychology. Also building @GeniusGTX.

Follow me at @LearningToan if that interests you.

And if you're building something in EdTech or education, I'd love to catch up and hear what you're working on.

Jordan Peterson, clinical psychologist and professor, on Jordan Peterson's Answer the Call

[Toan Truong @LearningToan]

A teacher explains why this generational (Gen Alpha) is unlike any other in 200 years of schooling

"Gen Alpha is being taught by millennials and younger Gen Xers, people who didn't grow up with smartphones, social media, or instant access to AI powered information."

"We didn't just shift culture. We shifted the entire architecture of childhood."

"What took a century to evolve before now has flipped upside down completely in less than a decade."

"These kids are now spending 7 hours a day, every weekday in an incompatible, outdated system with them that we have been teaching kids to learn for the past two centuries."

Hi! If you're new here, I'm Toan. I homeschooled at 15, graduated at 16, and got my bachelor's at 18.

Now I write about education, learning science, and psychology. Also building @GeniusGTX.

Follow me at @LearningToan if that interests you.

And if you're building something in EdTech or education, I'd love to catch up and hear what you're working on.

Cole Hastings, creator of Cole Hastings on YouTube

[Toan Truong @LearningToan]

A Brookings education director says your kid's straight A's may be measuring the wrong thing entirely

"Grades don't show you how much kids are engaged"

"Schools are not designed to give kids agency. Schools are designed to help kids comply"

"And it's actually not really the fault of the teacher. Teachers are squished from above with all sorts of standards and squished from below with parents"

"What you really want is some feedback loops that are beyond just grades and behavior like to know is my kid developing agency over their learning"

Hi! If you're new here, I'm Toan. I homeschooled at 15, graduated at 16, and got my bachelor's at 18.

Now I write about education, learning science, and psychology. Also building @GeniusGTX.

Follow me at @LearningToan if that interests you.

And if you're building something in EdTech or education, I'd love to catch up and hear what you're working on.

Rebecca Winthrop, director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institute, on The Ezra Klein Show

[Toan Truong @LearningToan]

Jordan Peterson says most teachers have no idea why anything they teach actually matters...

"my experience in school was and this included university was that it was often the case that the teachers who were attempting to impart information actually had no idea whatsoever why what they were teaching was good for anything"

"I would ask the educator why I needed to know this and they didn't know"

"if you don't know what it's good for, why should I be interested in it"

"so many people who teach art think about it as decoration. They have no idea what they're doing and they can't tell the students why it's important"

If you're new here, follow @LearningToan for the sharpest lessons from the world's best minds.

— Jordan Peterson ( @jordanbpeterson ), clinical psychologist, on Answer the Call

[Toan Truong @LearningToan]

A Harvard study found students learned physics better from an AI tutor than from a Harvard professor

"I could absolutely see that hundred-level lecture-based classes"

"All replaced by AI"

"Harvard just did a study in late 2024 that showed that students in a physics class had deeper levels of engagement and performed better with an AI tutor than with a Harvard professor"

"The other big thing that they got to do was they spent more time in group discussions"

Hi! If you're new here, I'm Toan. I homeschooled at 15, graduated at 16, and got my bachelor's at 18.

Now I write about education, learning science, and psychology. Also building @GeniusGTX.

Follow me at @LearningToan if that interests you.

And if you're building something in EdTech or education, I'd love to catch up and hear what you're working on.

McKenzie Price, co-founder of Alpha School, on Jonathan Bi's show

[Toan Truong @LearningToan]

OpenAI's education lead says AI's biggest impact isn't in the classroom, it's replacing the private tutors rich kids could always afford

"Look, I think the first place where AI is having a huge impact in education is not even in the classroom. It's outside of the classroom where it's equalizing access to what's really like adult support."

"There are many students out in the world who don't have access to a quality teacher. They don't have access to tutors. they don't have access to parents who are going to sit down and help them. And now with AI, they can have this companion who can encourage them, who can give feedback on their homework, on their writing, who can help help them answer tough questions."

"One thing that really struck me is they said using using AI gave them confidence."

"She started to feel like, 'Oh, I can ask questions. I can understand this. Like I have confidence and maybe I can actually continue and move forward.'"

If you're new here, follow @LearningToan for the sharpest lessons from the world's best minds.

— Leah Belsky, head of education at OpenAI, on the OpenAI Podcast

[Nick Velkovski @nikolak47]

In 2021, while I was still at university and building Howitzer (a reddit outreach tool), I raised money from investors.

It was the biggest investment that ever happened in Macedonia - $500k.

I took money from one VC fund (DayOneCapital), and 2 angels who believed in my idea. I was a 22 year old college student. I blew their money a year after, as Howitzer didn’t work.

Now, nearly 5 years after that, I returned their money.

@heyreach_io became a huge, seriously profitable company, and it was a time to pay back what I owned.

If these guys didn’t believe in me back in the days, I wouldn’t be here.

[Toan Truong @LearningToan]

7 in 10 employers would rather hire someone with AI skills than 10 years of experience

"So all the recent data shows that workers who use AI in the workforce are incredibly more productive"

"You know really any graduate who who leaves institution today needs to know how to use AI in their daily life"

"The the data shows that seven and 10 employers would rather hire someone with AI skills over someone who had up to 10 years of experience in a given function"

"I run a firm where I help put together teams to work with companies are trying to deploy AI. And the thing that we look for in people we work with is basically AI skills. Somebody spent six months learning how to use this stuff. I don't really care what their LinkedIn or actually their curriculum looked like. I just want to know, have you been using it? Can you use it?"

Hi! If you're new here, I'm Toan. I homeschooled at 15, graduated at 16, and got my bachelor's at 18.

Now I write about education, learning science, and psychology. Also building @GeniusGTX.

Follow me at @LearningToan if that interests you.

And if you're building something in EdTech or education, I'd love to catch up and hear what you're working on.

Leah Belsky, head of education at OpenAI, on Andrew Mayne's the OpenAI Podcast.

[Toan Truong @LearningToan]

OpenAI's education lead says AI's biggest impact isn't in the classroom, it's replacing the private tutors rich kids could always afford

"Look, I think the first place where AI is having a huge impact in education is not even in the classroom. It's outside of the classroom where it's equalizing access to what's really like adult support."

"There are many students out in the world who don't have access to a quality teacher. They don't have access to tutors. they don't have access to parents who are going to sit down and help them. And now with AI, they can have this companion who can encourage them, who can give feedback on their homework, on their writing, who can help help them answer tough questions."

"One thing that really struck me is they said using using AI gave them confidence."

"She started to feel like, 'Oh, I can ask questions. I can understand this. Like I have confidence and maybe I can actually continue and move forward.'"

If you're new here, follow @LearningToan for the sharpest lessons from the world's best minds.

— Leah Belsky, head of education at OpenAI, on the OpenAI Podcast

[Toan Truong @LearningToan]

An Alpha school posts every kid's progress on the wall and parents assume it's shaming, they're wrong

"So we actually do use public recognition as part of that so for example if you walk in any of our classroom spaces you'll see on the walls every single kid and where they're at what they've accomplished and what they still have to do"

"We often see parents will come in and say oh my goodness isn't this shaming"

"What we find is it's the opposite it actually motivates kids"

"You know kids will look at this big you know poster board on the wall and they'll think how am I ever going to finish that but then they're going to see wait if Tommy did that maybe I can do it too"

Hi! If you're new here, I'm Toan. I homeschooled at 15, graduated at 16, and got my bachelor's at 18.

Now I write about education, learning science, and psychology. Also building @GeniusGTX.

Follow me at @LearningToan if that interests you.

And if you're building something in EdTech or education, I'd love to catch up and hear what you're working on.

McKenzie Price, co-founder of Alpha School, on Jonathan Bi's show

[Toan Truong @LearningToan]

McKinsey Price says when kids struggle in school, the school should be blamed, not the kid...

"So, in a traditional system, when a student's not doing well, it's usually considered the student's fault. It's either hey, they're not the sharpest kid, they're not great at math, or they're lazy, they're disengaged, they're not doing something. We take the opposite approach."

"We believe that if a child is not thriving in our system, it's our fault. It's the school's fault."

"Number one, they're either not getting that right level and pace of learning that is right for them, or we haven't motivated the child."

If you're new here, follow @LearningToan for the sharpest lessons from the world's best minds.

— McKinsey Price, co-founder of Alpha School, on Jonathan Bi's ( @JonathanBi1 ) show

[Toan Truong @LearningToan]

A Hillsdale president tells freshmen why they're there, and the school has a 1% dropout rate

"I told them, you know, that thousands of people had been working for like 600 years to find them and offer them a stellar opportunity"

"I wish they would have told us that when we first came to university"

"This sort of thing happens at places like Hillsdale because Larry Arn who runs Hillsdale, he does tell the students that and they have a 1% dropout rate as opposed to the 40% dropout rate that characterizes most institutions"

"You got to get the motivational frame right. And to do that, you have to know why you're doing why are you pursuing this specialization"

Hi! If you're new here, I'm Toan. I homeschooled at 15, graduated at 16, and got my bachelor's at 18.

Now I write about education, learning science, and psychology. Also building @GeniusGTX.

Follow me at @LearningToan if that interests you.

And if you're building something in EdTech or education, I'd love to catch up and hear what you're working on.

Jordan B Peterson, clinical psychologist, on Answer the Call

[Toan Truong @LearningToan]

Jordan Peterson says most teachers have no idea why anything they teach actually matters...

"my experience in school was and this included university was that it was often the case that the teachers who were attempting to impart information actually had no idea whatsoever why what they were teaching was good for anything"

"I would ask the educator why I needed to know this and they didn't know"

"if you don't know what it's good for, why should I be interested in it"

"so many people who teach art think about it as decoration. They have no idea what they're doing and they can't tell the students why it's important"

If you're new here, follow @LearningToan for the sharpest lessons from the world's best minds.

— Jordan Peterson ( @jordanbpeterson ), clinical psychologist, on Answer the Call

[Patrick Aldrin @dpatrickaldrin]

A stuck nervous system is the real reason your chest is still tight.

It speeds your heart, shunts blood to your muscles, and leaves you agitated.

Here are 8 ways Stanford's Andrew Huberman says to switch it off:

1. Make your exhale longer than your inhale