# Learning To Learn [Efficient Learning]: The Lies
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Some advice that is often given when we are learning turns out to be false.
So here are **The Lies**.
**Note:**
The 🗝 icon is the **takeaway note** of each part.
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# The Lies
## Follow Your Passion
We might be passionate about something as a pure leisure activity. But when it turns into work instead of being fun, it becomes a chore.
🗝 What better is turning our intention from *following our passion* into *learning* a valuable skill and *getting better* by working hard.
We need a little bit of interest in a topic/skill and then have ***creativity, control, and impact***.
🗝 Doing self-improvement at something and getting recognized by other people because of their skill is what makes people enjoy their careers.
## You Can Avoid Risk
🗝 Risk is part of the process, and we *cannot* avoid it.
***We need to be able to tolerate and enjoy taking risks.***
Look at risks as a challenge that improves us and makes us better.
## Trust This One Person
Each person gives advice based on the things that work in their lives. And their advice might not work for us.
🗝 We need to learn to look at different opinions or resources from other individuals and not only from one.
## 10,000 Hours Rule
> To get good at something is all about hard work and putting thousands of hours into it.
Practicing is very important to sharpen a skill. However, many other factors are involved, such as genetics, personality, upbringing, etc. So there are [researches](https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/8/23/20828597/the-10000-hour-rule-debunked) that debunk this theory.
We need to learn to be efficient learners, to learn smart.
🗝 We need to know how to strategize, use different techniques, and spend a decent amount of time of practice to take us to our goal instead of putting *too many hours* into practicing.
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