Becoming a person who 'Just Knows Stuff'

This post from Dr. Patrick Kidger about what led to success in his PhD resonated with me.

I’m usually dizzed by the sheer volume of things I want to know. It reminds me of a This American Life episode I listened to once, ‘Things I Hope to Know’. How does one go from having a long ‘Things I Hope to Know List’ to a lot ‘Things I Know List’? THe obvious answer is to just learn, a lot.

Sometimes I hope that there is a clever way to consume all the information I want, but the reality is that there often isn’t.

I will log notes of things I want to learn as I try and learn them.