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HOW TO LEARN
Setting goals Set reasonable goals and do not expect too much of yourself or you will get
disappointed. If you are constantly disappointed with your progress, you will
eventually stop learning and stay at the same level for years. Remember that
mastery comes in stages.
“There was a time when Mr. Einstein was not quite sure what eight times
nine came to. He had to learn and he had to be taught.”
Jacques Barzon
If you improve just ten percent each year for five years, you will be twice as
good in five years’ time. Now ten percent does not sound like very much, but do
that each month and you will be amazed at how much progress you will make.
“No great thing is created suddenly any more than a bunch of grapes or a
fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be
time. Let it blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.”
Epictetus
If you cannot draw an ancient Tuscan hilltop village with all its complicated
angles and odd shaped buildings, learn to draw a single house with a regular
roof in perspective. If you cannot draw a single house with a roof, then learn to
draw a simple cube. If you cannot manage to draw a cube, then just learn to
draw a square in the correct proportions.