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Chelsea Grant
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Beware of Illusions of Competence
Instead of highlighting or underlining, rather take brief notes that summarize keys concepts.
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Waylon X.
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Learning to Learn
Learning how to learn
Learning how to learn is a meta-skill. It is a critical skill for everyone who needs to pick up and master new concepts frequently.
Understanding what is learning and how our memory works wil...
Learning skills
Learning how to learn is critical for everyone. Most of us have to deal with a changing world and to learn how to manage tons of new information.
However, most of our learning methods are outdated and far from optimal. It may even be giving us an illusion of learning, like re-reading and highlighting that don't provide proper feedback to show what you haven't learned.
Focused and Diffuse Mode
Focused and diffuse modes provide two models for how we develop, elaborate, deepen and broaden connections. Both methods are important.
- The focused mode of learning is about bringing related concepts together into a unit, called a chunk.
- The diffuse mode operates through a wider net of connecting general ideas across different fields. We use this diffuse mode while we sleep, exercise or daydream.
Aarna Agarwal
@aarnaa
The Feynman Technique: How to Learn Anything Faster and More Efficiently
The Feynman Technique
... is the perfect strategy for learning something new, deepening your understanding of a concept, enhancing your recall of certain ideas, or reviewing for tests.
The process t...
Richard Feynman
... the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, was recognized as someone who could clearly explain complex topics in a way that everybody—even those without degrees in the sciences—could understand.
While studying at Princeton, Feynman began recording and connecting the information he knew with the things that he either didn't know or didn't understand.
This resulted in a complete notebook of topics and subjects that he had disassembled, translated, reassembled, and written down in simple terms.
The Benefits of the Feynman Technique
- It helps you gain a complete understanding of what you're learning.
- Use the Feynman Technique if you are struggling with tough subject matter.
- It helps to improve your teaching skills.
- It increases your capacity to use critical thinking skills.
Kyle Red
@redkyle
How to Learn Anything: A real-world guide to mastering any new skill
Albert Einstein
Daniel Coyle
Telling Others About Your Pursuit
It can keep you accountable, but it can also lead to a false sense of completeness. One way to avoid sabotaging yourself is to state your goal as a commitment rather than progress towards the finished product.
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