preface

This book is a book about learning methods written by Scott Young, I spent nearly two weeks to read this book, this book I think there is a certain harvest after reading, of course, there are a lot of feelings.

Book is in fact the effect of learning method, some people study efficiency is high, in a very short period of time to master a lot of knowledge, and some people learning efficiency is very low, spent a lot of time to do things, what the result is not done well, whether life or work, the whole is very bad, let yourself into a passive position, very tired. In the face of such a situation, apart from human talent, a large part of the factors lies in the cultivation of people’s acquired methods, and this book is also about the cultivation of acquired methods.

The following I get from the book some learning methods and insights, here to record down.

Necessary skills to work effectively

  • Make a to-do list and categorize tasks

In order to ensure the normal completion of the work, it is possible to divide the work into multiple tasks for processing, and then the multiple tasks are categorized to distinguish the priority and type of tasks, using the list tool (Wonder list, ToDoList, evernote, etc.).

  • Batch processing tasks in a centralized manner

For some of the tasks we need to focus on it at a specific time, the goal is to improve the utilization of time, if separated in different time to deal with some scattered task, it will cause some have involved task since there is no centralized to deal with them, so as to complete a single unfinished tasks before the need to contact some of the tasks, Not only is it a waste of time, but it also disrupts your overall plan.

  • Get a good sleep schedule (get enough sleep)

Here we are referring to a cyclical schedule. Usually we use a linear schedule, and this linear schedule is to average out the time to perform the work. A cyclical schedule emphasizes getting most of the work done in a small amount of time. The good thing about this kind of schedule is that it helps to keep your schedule organized and not dull. Such as:

  1. Take one day off a week, spread seven days of work into six, and take the rest of the day off to relax (and avoid burnout).
  2. No work at night. Do your entire day in the morning or during the day, and get your work done early. In the evening, you have extra time to schedule, which can be used for reading, studying, or relaxing.
  3. Set 90-minute study sessions. Studies have shown that setting a 90-minute time limit makes you more focused when you’re studying. When you’re done, take a break.
  • Exercise, let the body function is full, eat less often

The purpose of doing this is to ensure that you have a healthy body, so that your body is always in an environment full of experience, so that you can have energy to learn, this is the most basic condition for learning, so we should pay special attention to this.

A method summary of the learning process

Information acquisition stage

  1. Fast reading

The purpose of fast reading is to get information in the fastest time. The advantage of doing this is that you can get a lot of information in a limited time. After obtaining a lot of information, you can screen what you need according to your needs

  1. Notes flow

One drawback of speed reading is that if you read fast, you may not be able to keep up with the speed. You may have finished reading a chapter, but you don’t know what the chapter is about. At this point, note flow is needed to help us understand. After finishing a chapter, we often close the book and try our best to recall the information in the book, which can greatly improve our ability to obtain information and our understanding of the book in the process of fast reading

Connecting points of view (understanding process)

  1. The analogy method

The main use of metaphor method is to associate the information acquired, compared to their familiar things for understanding and memory. In this way, knowledge in different scenarios can be easily understood in a familiar way

  1. internalization

Replacing what we understand with something external that we can perceive with images, sounds, and touches makes it easier to remember.

  1. Diagramming (using mind maps to relate knowledge)

The graph method can show the internal relationship of some ideas in the form of graphs. Once the relationship is shown, the information can be derived backwards from the graph of correlation

The processing of information

  1. GuaGouFa

Hook method is to memorize some random information by using the way of homophony of numbers, but it is the best to memorize numbers. From 0 to 10, think of the most familiar thing or thing for each number. For example, 0, you might think of bells. One might think of clothes, and so on, two of ears, three of mountains, and so on. If memory 3705 is decomposed into a beautiful wife waiting for me on the mountain with a bell, it suddenly becomes a scene. It seems to be much clearer to remember the scene than to remember the numbers.

  1. Information compression technology

We often use information compression technology, is to compress the content of memory, for example. For example, in order to facilitate the memorization of ancient poems, we can remember the first words of each ancient poem, and then string them together to form a sentence. Then remember the sentence, and indirectly remember the framework of the whole ancient poem.

  1. Lenovo method

The method of association is the method of self-association of information, self-processing of information, association of familiar things, and then memory by remembering familiar things.

  1. The practical application

Usually, after obtaining information, we understand and know the content of the information. In order to better understand and grasp the information, we need to practice. If we do not practice, we can not really grasp the content, and the acquired content will not be deeply remembered by us, and finally abandoned.

  1. Self education

This method is a killer for understanding memory. Why is that? Because that’s Richard D* Feynman’s skill. Whenever to understand a message, as an educator can try to understand, will go to find ways to express in their own content about it, reach the level of other people can understand, now own understanding to impress, and when to tell someone else is, in fact, they understand a practical application, You will find that college students who are often lecturing others have a deeper understanding of certain knowledge points. They talk a lot and naturally apply them in a disguised way.

  1. The project of actual combat

Project practice is based on a project cycle, to practice what you understand information content, the purpose is to deepen their understanding, at the same time continue to retrieve in the process of time whether some misunderstandings of some information, so as to achieve the aim of correcting trial and error, after the completion of the trial and error, to the real benefits brought by information to use.