Education Should Feel Like Going to the Gym for Your Brain [Video]

Eureka Labs founder Andrej Karpathy hopes that in a post-AGI world, people will go to the gym not just physically but also mentally. “I feel learning something is like going to the gym – but for the brain,” said Karpathy in a recent podcast.  

Earlier this year, Karpathy compared learning with going to the gym and cautioned that a lot of videos on YouTube looked like education, but were merely for entertainment.

“Learning is not supposed to be fun. It doesn’t have to be actively not fun either, but the primary feeling should be that of effort. It should look a lot less like that ‘10 minute full-body’ workout from your local digital media creator and a lot more like a serious session at the gym,” he posted on X.

He encouraged those who truly wanted to learn, saying that unless you’re trying to master something narrow and specific, close those tabs of quick blog …