True learning is a permanent change in cognition and/or behavior. In other words, learning involves a permanent change in how you see and act in the world. The accumulation of information isn’t learning. Lots of people have heads full of information they don’t know what to do with. If you want to learn something quickly, you need to immerse yourself in that thing and immediately implement what you’re learning. The fastest way to learn Spanish, for instance, is by immersing yourself in a Spanish culture. Flash cards for fifteen minutes a day will eventually get you there. But you’ll make deeper connections with a few days fully immersed than you would in months of “dabbling.

One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

Once you learn how to learn, you have only to discover what is worth learning.

I have come to feel that the only learning which significantly influences behavior is self-discovered, self-appropriated learning.

only by taking action do we learn and only by learning do we discover what we want.

The same is true for learning. True learning (as opposed to education) is a voluntary experience that requires tension and discomfort (the persistent feeling of incompetence as we get better at a skill).

You only learn when you give your whole being to something. When you give your whole being to mathematics,you learn; but when you are in a state of contradiction, when you do not want to learn but are forced to learn, then it becomes merely a process of accumulation. To learn is like reading a novel with innumerable characters; it requires your full attention, not contradictory attention.

Remember that anything important can't really be learned in the classroom. It must be learned by taking action, making mistakes, and then correcting them. That's when wisdom sets in.

Or perhaps one can learn only by one’s own mistakes. The essential thing is to learn. Learning and living.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

You really learn only when you’re surprised. If you’re not surprised, then everything is fitting into your existing thought patterns. So to get smarter, you need to get surprised, think in new ways, and deeply understand different perspectives.

True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.

There is only one way to learn. It's through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.