Elon’s mental model for learning quickly is the ‘Knowledge Tree.’
The idea is to view knowledge as a tree so you can break it into bits.
For example, ‘Trunks and big branches’ VS ‘Leaves and fruits’.
Ethnobotanist and mystic Terence McKenna on courage:
"Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it's a feather bed."
Source: Unfolding the Stone (edited lightly for clarity)
Taken from @JamesClear newsletter.
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