How To Claim Your Free Piece of Paper

1. Start a blog or neocities site listing the biggest problems you can think of (and would like to help solve)
2. Figure out why they haven't been solved yet, and what the various proposed solutions (if any) are. Strive to understand each, as well as the risks and benefits of each.
3. Spend 3-6 hours a day studying these problems (and all of the adjacent problems you're probably not aware of yet).
4. Read the book, do the practice problems. There's no shortcut to mastering your domain.
5. Google, Wikipedia, YouTube, Cliff's Notes, Coursera, StackExchange, and Khan Academy the shit out of anything you don't understand. Your future - and that of humanity - is depending on it. If you don't think this is the case, start from the top and think bigger.
6. Experience the natural world for all it's worth. Don't forget to go outside. Seek out people with different interests and ideologies.
7. Keep fucking up, but try to learn something each time.
8. Practice writing. You'll suck at it. Just look at this website. It doesn't matter though, most of what you read is highly-polished and edited.