💡 **主动学习新领域**：文章核心在于倡导一种积极主动的学习模式，即每月挑选一个自己不熟悉或甚至排斥的领域进行深入了解，以此拓展个人视野和认知边界。

🚀 **打破认知壁垒**：通过刻意接触和学习那些“不喜欢”或“不了解”的事物，可以有效打破固有的思维定式和偏见，发掘新的兴趣点和潜在的乐趣，实现真正的自我成长。

📚 **学习方法建议**：文章提供了一些具体的学习方向建议，如学习特定学科、文学作品、音乐类型、甚至技能等，并推荐了学习方法论，鼓励读者从自己最不感兴趣的地方入手，以获得最大的启发。

🌍 **拥抱多元与欣赏**：作者强调，学习的过程本身就是一种培养欣赏能力的方式。通过深入了解，人们能够学会理解和欣赏原本疏远的文化、知识或技能，从而丰富人生体验。

Here’s an idea:Every month, pick something you hate or know nothing about, and get to know it well.Spend a few hours per week, for an entire month, just learning about that subject.Why?

The idea is inspired by a very successful friend of mine who is regrettably closed-minded.She hates everything that isn’t European, sophisticated, and familiar.Culture of India?Hates it.Chinese opera?Hates it.West African music?Hates it.Any mention of any of these things, and she completely shuts down.Appreciating them is not an option.I tried to play her my favorite Indian music, and West African music, but nope.Just a few seconds into it, she asks me to shut it off.

It made me realize that some of the greatest joys in my life are the things I used to hate, or know nothing about, and now have grown to love.Read my post “Loving what I used to hate” for my story about that.

So I thought:Instead of letting it happen accidently or randomly, why not be deliberate about it?Some ideas of things to study for a month would be…

civil engineeringTolstoyarcheryBollywooddog trainingDungeons and DragonschessZanzibarcryptographyemergency medical traininganything The Great Courses has a course aboutanything Very Short Introductions has a mini-book about

If it’s learning a skill, read Josh Kaufman’s First 20 Hours and use that approach.

While you might lean towards things you’ve always wanted to learn about, I think it’s more interesting to ask yourself, “What do I have absolutely no interest in?” or “What sounds repulsive to me?”, then aim to understand one of those things.Start with a kind of music you hate, or a part of the world that sounds unappealing to you.That’s where the real self-expansion happens.

Whenever we learn about something, we learn to appreciate it.So it’s most rewarding if it’s something you previously had no appreciation for.

I like this idea a lot, and plan to do it soon.