tags: #public #habits #learning #study

How to not to study

• Rereading.
  • Low utlity compared to other methods.
  • Little or no benefit.
• Higlighting
  • Low utility
  • Does little to boost perfomance
  • Very bad at inference making.
• Summarizing or making notes
  • Low utility.
  • Can be effective for people who are skilled summarizers.

How to study

• Books
  • Make it stick
• Understand (Active recall)
  • When you can teach someone on the subject
  • Can you explain to someone else
  • Read 2 or 3 paragraphhs, close the book.
    • What have I learned.
    • What are the key ideas
    • Can I explain this to someone else
• Remeber

TL;DR Techniques that require you to retrieve stuff from your brain * Test yourselves more

Active recall

• Anki

  • Good for memorization

• Book closed and try to recall.

  • Recall as much as you can
  • And then see what you missed

• Create questions

• Phase 1 - The content of the plan of the whole subject

• Phase 2 - Go

• Phase 3 - Go in depth

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