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Slow Down to Understand Better
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.
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Expose Yourself Multiple Times to the Same Information
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.
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Get Clear on What Confuses You
Instead of trying to understand the idea all at once, you need to ask yourself what’s missing to understand it.
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Don’t Get Too Far From the Real Thing
By obtaining only a superficial understanding, it’s harder to abstract the deeper principles behind things.
Knowing a programming concept, like recursion, for a test is one thing. Being able to notice that the curren...
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Test Your Knowledge Before You’re “Ready”
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.
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Find Your Reason to Be Interested
Genuine interest can’t be faked, but it can be fostered.
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Practice on Questions From the Test
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.
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Never Multitask
We’re never actually doing two things at once. Instead, when we multitask, we’re quickly switching between tasks in our minds.
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Pretend to Teach It
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.
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Drill the Basics Until They’re Automatic
Whenever you’re struggling to learn anything, always ask if you’ve mastered the basics.
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The 4 Steps of the Feynman Technique
- Choose the idea or concept to learn about. Write the concept as a heading on a blank piece of paper or notebook page, then write down everything you already know.
- Imagine that you have to teach the concept to a new student. In your own words, expl...
6. Practice with clock counting down
- Once you’re within the timeframe, begin practicing with the clock counting down.
- You need to set a few places in your talk where you benchmark a time stamp.
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You can use second-order thinking in two ways:
1. As a purely mental exercise
2. You can write it down on paper
Consider a decision you have to make.
Look at the most immediate (first-order) effects of making the decision. Then for each effect ask yourself: "And then What?...
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