Work on Your Foundation

People who learn ‘new stuff’ faster are those who have taken out time to perfect the ‘old stuff’. 

They know well enough, that everything you learn now is just a brick on the already laid brick (i.e. a step further/higher). 

Ensuring that the rudiments or pre-requisites have already being mastered should be the practice of anyone who wants to be an excellent learner.

What seems complex in whatever subject/area is simply an aggregate of simple/basic knowledge. 

Know the pre-requisite and the present becomes simple. What most people think is difficult is actually accumulated ‘simple’ stuff! 

Take for example this word in English ‘Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis’: The 45-letter word was coined to serve as the longest English word and is the longest word ever to appear in an English language dictionary. 

It is listed in the current edition of several dictionaries. It means a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust, causing inflammation in the lung, a condition meeting the word's definition is normally called silicosis. 

If you look at this word closely, it’s a combination of many small words. Let’s analyze it together: ‘pneumono’ is derived from the word ‘pneumonic’ which means relating to or affecting the lungs, ‘ultramicroscopic’ means too small to be seen with optical microscope, ‘silico’ short for silica, ‘volcano’ tells us the source of the silica and the final segment which is the suffix ‘-osis’ refers to an unusual or diseased condition. 

The summation of all this simple words gives the complex word ‘Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis’! That’s the way most ideas, concepts, principles, laws etc are! Once you understand the fundamentals, learning becomes fun!

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