old habits make it hard to learn new things

May 1, 2022

We often need to unlearn old habits before we learn new things. Because we try to adapt the habit to work in a new setting and it holds us back from absorbing new methodologies.

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How to Create Useful Links with ZettelkastenThe linking feature of Zettelkasten is one of its most defining features, yet, it's the least understood. Linking ideas should be natural for us, but a lifetime of organization with the tree structure has made it difficult to adopt this new form of organization. To make links useful, we'll need to unlearn our old habits. This is an entire paradigm shift, so don't expect it to be easy. Don't group things, connect them The biggest mistake—and one I've made myself—is linking with categories. In o