Learning Method on Seunghoon Choi

A New Field Is Not Learned by Seeing More, but by Seeing Differently: 3, 7, 30, 100

Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A sense of a new field comes not just from the quantity of examples, but from comparing the differences between different examples.

When people first learn a new field, they often ask, “How many examples do I need before I get a feel for it?” It seems like seeing more should solve it, but that is not how it works. You can look at a hundred examples of the same kind and your thoughts can still stay unorganized.

The Person Who Can Stand Feeling Bad at Something Eventually Gets Better

Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

If you feel like you can't do it, it means you're dealing with something you can't handle automatically yet.

When you learn something new, the first feeling is not interest. It is incompetence. You think you understand it in your head, but your hands do not follow. Everyone else seems to do it easily, while you stumble. It looked easy when someone explained it, but the moment you try it yourself, everything tangles.

What Matters More Than Study Smarts: Four Fundamentals That Matter More as AI Gets Better

Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The faster AI gets, the more basic skills matter. A person still has to check whether the AI answer is right, what it missed, and whether it can be used as-is.

AI now summarizes, translates, drafts reports, and even writes code. Does that make study smarts less important? I think the opposite is true.

Memorization and repetitive calculation may matter less. But the ability to read sentences, understand how work moves, organize multiple pieces of information into structure, and handle invisible concepts matters more. The faster AI produces outputs, the more important the human fundamentals become for judging whether those outputs are right or wrong.