This guy made a great site:
http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notebooks/


I wonder how people get to be able to read so much stuff. This guy says he does nothing but read. I am afraid my hip flexors and posterior chain will go bad if I do this.

 Some people learn how to learn things properly when they are young. In this case, it seems that they do not have to meta-think about how to think because it is what they do. But maybe one of the only ways for an older person to learn how to think is to do this metacognition.
When we growing up, some of us were taught to do things like understand what we were looking at from an early age. Some of us weren't. Regardless, here's a nice video relating to this:
Feynman said this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1TiXLGqlM4&feature=related
It seems nice. I'll try it with the classes I'm in.

In order to be academically successful, many students will avoid known vices at all costs. What about unknown vices? What is an unknown vice? I watched two episodes of the Big Bang theory show. That's about all I have time to watch. Why don't they ever study on the show? What are they doing? Don't you have to study continuously when you're in grad school for physics at a school like that?
I don't know. Maybe people with high amounts of focusing ability do not have to give up everything nonacademic to understand their field. But the guy who made the notebooks (at the beginning of this article), who seems very well-read and successful at science seemed to give up everything non-academic. It remains a mystery to me as to how people succeed at science and still do things outside of science. Maybe it is minimize distraction and maximize productivity? Is this productive? I think that it is important to learn how to do this and make it so that others in my situation can do this as well.