>>11838915These books about learning how to learn do contain good advice, but there's something you need to hear if you're the type of person that gravitates to them in the way that damaged people gravitate towards self help books.
If, like most people, you realized by age 5 that learning how to learn how to learn how to learn how to learn...(alternatively, the nature of the nature of the nature of the nature of... ) should be the first thing you have to learn because it's the most efficient way to optimize your existence, then you know that it was never a question of having the right kind of information, and it's not necessarily a question of intelligence or raw mental "horsepower". It's about having the right kind of initiative and will to power. A question of being willing to manipulate your own mind and self, and being able to improvise meta-cognitive solutions in real time to modify your thought patterns as-they-are-happening to navigate your mind where you want to take it. It's like playing an instrument that changes its control scheme as you play it, and also changes your ability to interact with the controls as you play it, also changes your goals and desires and musical tastes as you play it(including making you want to stop playing), and also plays itself, and also breaks. This is not territory that humans have explored and mapped. Language does not exist to describe this territory. This is something you do alone, without being told, guided only by what you want to do, and you do as much of it as your courage and talent and luck permits, and once you run out of neural plasticity you can no longer do it, and that's your personality for the rest of your life.
