This concept corresponds roughly to what we think of as our mental bandwidth. It can only hold a few items at a time.The fix is to slow things down. Write out what you’re trying to learn on a piece of paper, and go through each sentence or step in a calculation one-at-a-time.

Slow Down to Understand Better

The teacher often learns more than the student. Teaching something, even if just pretending, forces you to confront what you know and don’t know.

Pretend to Teach It

A clever experimental manipulation found that the students who would have chosen passive review, nonetheless did better when they were forced to do practice instead.

 Test Your Knowledge Before You’re “Ready”

Genuine interest can’t be faked, but it can be fostered.

Find Your Reason to Be Interested

Retrieval practice—where you shut the book and try to recall what you’ve learned without looking at it—is one of the most effective studying techniques.

Practice on Questions From the Test

Whenever you’re struggling to learn anything, always ask if you’ve mastered the basics.

Drill the Basics Until They’re Automatic

By obtaining only a superficial understanding, it’s harder to abstract the deeper principles behind things.Knowing a programming concept, like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursion#In_computer_science">recursion</a>, for a test is one thing. Being able to notice that the current problem in your work would be best solved with a recursive algorithm is another.

Don’t Get Too Far From the Real Thing

If you can be exposed to a fact, idea or procedure multiple times, you’ll retain it far longer than if you experience it only once.

Expose Yourself Multiple Times to the Same Information

We’re never actually doing two things at once. Instead, when we multitask, we’re quickly switching between tasks in our minds.

Never Multitask

Instead of trying to understand the idea all at once, you need to ask yourself what’s missing to understand it.

Get Clear on What Confuses You

How do you study for the test of life? Here are ten proven strategies to deeply learn even the hardest subjects.

Drill the Basics Until They’re Automatic

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