Before we begin, let’s start with a few quick questions:

  • Do you constantly seek out instantly available, ready-to-use, days-to-day knowledge instead of settling down to focus on your research?
  • Do you see something everyone else is learning and immediately abandon your plans and go learn it?
  • Do you have a passion for learning, but do it by brute force, working long and hard with little success?
  • Are you constantly chasing hot and trendy knowledge that you don’t know how to apply to real problems?

If you get shot, you may also feel like you’ve spent a lot of time trying for nothing. So disheartened, feel that they are not suitable for learning, pessimistic about the future.

Do not be discouraged first, in fact, it may be that your learning method gave a small problem, resulting in learning efficiency is not high. This article is here to help you solve your problems!

Misunderstandings in learning methods

Before understanding the correct learning method, we first look at the common learning mistakes?

“Anxiety can be my motivation for learning” (X)

Anxiety makes you nervous, but it doesn’t solve the problem. When anxiety is on the rise, there is no way to sink down and absorb knowledge. Learning will cast a net everywhere, scattered energy, each kind of knowledge are tasted, learn not fine, also learn not. That is, the more you try to learn well, the worse you learn.

“As long as I devote all my time and energy to learning, THERE will be a harvest” (X)

No matter how much time you spend or how much effort you put into learning, it’s not the most important thing. The most important is the ratio of input to output resources. The effectiveness of learning is the most important. What you learn is reflected in how much you remember, how much you understand, and how well you can apply it to your work.

Why study effectively?

That is, we sacrifice recreation and rest to learn in the hope of improving ourselves. It is necessary to find an efficient learning method, more effective learning. Instead of getting stuck in these learning mistakes, which kill willpower and fail to achieve the desired results.

I believe that people who read this article must have certain higher requirements for themselves and are willing to improve themselves through hard study. Therefore, it is necessary to have the active will to learn efficiently, which is the premise of everything, because there is no shortcut to all things, the better the learning method, also need to pay more willpower.

If you’re ready to learn this methodology, let’s take a look at the classic feynman method of effective learning.

Efficient Learning — Feynman method of learning

Feynman learning method mainly consists of five steps: focus on the target, understand the knowledge, “input” force “output”, repeat, review. You may not know what’s going on right now, but don’t worry, we’ll break it down point by point below.

Step 1: Focus on the goal

This is the starting point of everything. When we make up our minds to learn something, we must set a goal for ourselves, such as:

  • Learn JavaScript and complete the development of a BLOG website
  • Learn to manage money, and achieve wealth freedom
  • .

Since we’re going to be investing a lot of energy in this goal, you can’t be too careful when setting goals.

Therefore, we need to seriously argue the necessity of learning this knowledge. This is where the SMART principle comes in.

S: (Specific) Be Specific and Specific. Goals must be clear and demonstrable. M :(Measurable). Goals must be quantifiable and measurable. A :(Achievable) what it is capable of achieving. Goals must be within reach. Rewarding: THAT’s Rewarding. Goals must have a positive meaning. T :(time-bound) Time bound. Goals must have a deadline.

Let’s take the goal of “learning JavaScript to complete the development of a BLOG website” as an example:

  • S: I want to complete the BLOG website development work by learning JS. My goal is very clear
  • M: The goal is to complete the BLOG website development, can be quantified and evaluated, M meets
  • A: If you are A novice, and the BLOG site is very complex and beyond your ability, then you do not meet the requirements
  • R: Can generate satisfaction and achievement, R yes
  • T: the target completion time is not given, T does not match

It seems that this goal is not specific and clear enough, the progress, form and deadline of learning have not been implemented in detail. Every link has feasibility, is a correct goal.

Let’s try to recalibrate the goal:

Learn Javascript basic knowledge, with native JS syntax to complete the development of a Blog website. Blog website should support article MD editor, article display, article Tag these three basic functions.

Learning Progress:

  • Week 1: familiar with NPM, vscode and other tools. Read the JS Primer and complete the programming exercises in each chapter
  • Week 2: Construct all pages using HTML and CSS
  • Week3: Implement article display and article tag function with JS
  • Week4: Implement article MD editing function with JS

Learning format: reading books + watching video tutorials

Duration of study: 1 month

To sum up, “results” should be quantified and the learning plan, schedule and deadline should be implemented into details. This will lay the foundation for our ultimate goal. Also allow time to adjust your goals and plans.

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Step 2: Understand the knowledge

Classify and compare the knowledge and concepts we need to learn, systematically understand these contents, and establish the principles of screening and learning.

Our brains can’t remember all the bits and pieces, but there are small ways we can “string” information together. The most common tool is mind mapping.

On the one hand, mind mapping can visualize knowledge and save our thinking energy. On the other hand, it also provides first-hand materials for subsequent “output”.

Another very common technique is to help our brain systematically process knowledge. It’s a retelling:

  • The first stage: retelling by impression: make statistics of what is right and what is off the original meaning, and then go back to study the key points according to the statistics
  • The second stage: ask questions in the retelling: write down a series of why in combination with what you know in the past
  • Stage three: Add your own ideas to your retelling

Step 3: Output forces Input

I think this is one of the most important, and one of the most overlooked. Exporting knowledge is not simply writing it down or replicating it like a machine, but meeting the following requirements:

  1. Simple and easy to understand
  2. Precise and accurate, no ambiguity
  3. Tell a certain depth: want to have in-depth analysis and extension, tell the application of knowledge and more important value.
  4. Add your own understanding: Add original ideas
  5. What you understand is not important, can let anyone can understand, on behalf of you really learned the knowledge.

The first two points are good enough, but in order to give depth and add original ideas, you have to force yourself to constantly think and integrate new knowledge with existing knowledge to create your own ideas. If you want to express it in a simple and easy way, you must have a thorough understanding of the knowledge. It’s a lot of thinking to do, but if you do it, I’m sure you’ve already mastered it.

I suggest that you choose a time when willpower is sufficient for knowledge output.

At the same time, there is a common method to help us better output, it is the second repetition:

  • The first recitation is to use yourself as the listener
  • The second recitation is to enter a real imparting of knowledge and explain your views to others or even more people.

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Step 4: Review

Through retrospection and reflection, correct unsatisfied learning mistakes, find gaps, and summarize their knowledge in more concise language.

The following strategies are provided:

  • When knowledge gets stuck: Go back to the areas of confusion and identify the weak links
  • Logical unclear, half-knowledge of the content excerpt down, clear combing
  • Reflect on this understanding and exposition can be more simple and straightforward

The keyPoint of this step is that controversy is the entry point for deep learning. The goal is to increase retention of content in the brain.

Step 5: Simplify

Extract what we need to form our own knowledge system. This has put forward further requirements for us to dig deeply, realize the internalization of knowledge, and form their own knowledge system. To develop the habit of deep knowledge mining and deep learning:

  • Extension and reinforcement of skills
  • A forward-looking understanding of knowledge
  • Systematic reinforcement of knowledge

A common technique that helps us simplify is the third paraphrase:

The first retelling explains the problem, the second solves the problem, and the third predicts the problem.

In the third retelling, an original point of view should be established: collect information by observing the behavior, representation, evolution and results of the learning object, acquire valuable elements, and then deduce new knowledge. Forming influential new knowledge.

conclusion

The above is feynman learning method of the whole content, I hope to see this you can immediately practice, efficient learning is the right way to change the fate.

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