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While I'm myself interested in learning more about this topic (the Coursera course mentioned here sounds interesting), I found this book really really interesting:

"So Good they Can't Ignore you", by Cal Newport

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13525945-so-good-they-ca...

It might not go into so much detail on learning (although it touches on the topic a bit), but it puts straight same basic "laws of nature", as I see it, about what really makes you grow: Deliberate practice, and absolutely not the modern phrase "follow your passion".

I like to connect that to the old wisdom of Solomon, in the book of proverbs in the Bible:

"All hard work brings a profit,

but mere talk leads only to poverty."

(Prov 14:23)



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