YMMV, but I did not find the book to be super insightful or particularly helpful for how my brain works.
It spells out a framework that (roughly) boils down to:
0) Pick one topic at a time
1) Learning by doing
2) The doing has to be exercises of deliberate practice that push you
3) Create some type of deadline or pressure to make sure you actually stick to the task.
My experience with being self-taught is that I tend to just bounce around arbitrarily to different subjects or interests and drop them when I get bored and then all that knowledge bouncing around eventually becomes cohesive once I repeat that cycle enough times. So the concepts of picking a single topic, creating a strategy for only focusing on that topic, and then executing were difficult to apply.
I think one advantage to bouncing around/being self taught (as I have most typically been too) is it lets you draw connections between seemingly unconnected things!
I think this is something lost in the act of being too focussed on learning one thing at a time!
It spells out a framework that (roughly) boils down to:
0) Pick one topic at a time
1) Learning by doing
2) The doing has to be exercises of deliberate practice that push you
3) Create some type of deadline or pressure to make sure you actually stick to the task.
My experience with being self-taught is that I tend to just bounce around arbitrarily to different subjects or interests and drop them when I get bored and then all that knowledge bouncing around eventually becomes cohesive once I repeat that cycle enough times. So the concepts of picking a single topic, creating a strategy for only focusing on that topic, and then executing were difficult to apply.