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But summarizing can help you with wading through piles of pages when studying time comes.
I would not skip on the summary at the bottom.
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- There are templates out there for the Cornell Method but a strait-edge and a pencil will do the job nicely.

25 Oct 09

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24 Oct 09

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22 Oct 09

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16 Oct 09

Six steps for learning difficult subjects quickly

useful for learning dry and difficult material quickly
Of course, you can use this to teach yourself interesting things as well, but most people don't have any problem learning stuff that's fun.
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- The only time I stop to go back is if there's some key concept that's being repeated a lot and I don't know what it means.
- Otherwise I just challenge myself to get through the book as quickly as possible.
- Don't concentrate on the details at this stage, just identify the core ten or so ideas
- some things that simply must be memorized.
- There are all sorts of memory tricks around, but the one I find most useful is pretty simple. I just repeat out loud the thing that has to be remembered ten times or so. Then, I wait until later in the day and try to remember it again. If I can't, I look it up and repeat it out loud again. Then I wait for later and try to remember it again - and so on.
- it's time to get some feedback on how well you've understood it.
- You'll probably find that you did pretty badly when you mark yourself. After all, you raced your way through the text. But if you look up the questions that you got wrong, you should amaze yourself at how quickly you start getting a detailed knowledge of the material.
- The important thing is not getting the answers right, but looking up what you got wrong and learning it. Do this as quickly as possible. Try to avoid reading whole chapters unless you feel you absolutely need to.
- Now is the time to get some information from other sources. Often, hearing something in a different way helps me to understand it better.
- Now's the time to get some real-world feedback.

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Ten Steps for Boosting Your Creativity

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brainstorming can help you
not only come up with sacks full of new ideas, but can help you
decide which is best
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- if you are struck by an idea, you can quickly note it
  down
- open a dictionary, randomly
  select a word and then try to formulate ideas incorporating this
  word
- define your problem
  in detail. You'll probably find ideas positively spewing out once
  you've done this.
- gentle exercise
- change of atmosphere
- Don't watch TV.
- Books exercise
  your brain, provide inspiration and fill you with information that
  allows you to make creative connections easily.

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I try to organize information in a way that makes it easier to recall.
Instead of forcing ideas into your skull, you focus on the relationships between information. Linking ideas together to see the whole, instead of just the parts.
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- Learning is a process similar to building a house. You aren’t fed the complete picture. Limitations on communication prevent the instantaneous transmission of knowledge. Instead you listen to lectures, read textbooks and take painstaking notes to try and comprehend a subject.
  
  You are fed building supplies, bricks, mortar and glass. It is up to you to assemble the building. Unfortunately, most learning strategies fall into two basic types:
  
  Memorization – Instead of building anything you simply stare at each brick for several minutes trying to record its position.
  Formulas – This is the equivalent to being blind, fumbling around a new house. You can’t see the building itself but you learn to come up with simple rules to avoid walking into walls.
- formulas no longer work if the questions they are designed to solve change scope.
- The alternative strategy is to focus on actually using the information you have to build something. This involves linking concepts together
- Use All Your Senses - Abstract ideas are difficult to memorize because they are far removed from our senses. Shift them closer by coming up with vivid pictures, feelings and images that relate information together. When I learned how to do a determinant of a matrix, I remembered the pattern by visualizing my hands moving through the numbers, one adding and one subtracting.
- Build a Large Foundation - Reading lots and having a general understanding of many topics gives you a lot more flexibility in finding patterns and metaphors in new topics. The more you already know, the easier it is to learn.
- I don’t spend much time studying before exams. Forcing information during the last few days is incredibly inefficient. Instead try to slowly interlink ideas as they come to you so studying becomes a quick recap rather than a first attempt at learning.
- Learning is in Your Head – Having beautiful notes and a perfectly highlighted textbook doesn’t matter if you don’t understand the information in it. Your only goal is to understand the information so it will stick with you for assignments, tests and life. Don’t be afraid to get messy when scrawling out ideas on paper and connecting them in your head. Use notes and books as a medium for learning rather than an end result.

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You may not think of it deliberately, but learning is very similar to storytelling. You need to give yourself vivid, memorable and emotionally descriptions of the information. When you learn with compelling metaphors, information seems to stick easily. Without metaphors, ideas are dry and slip through your ears without a second thought.
Holistic learning is based on the principle that learning works as a whole and not through rote memorization. When all of your ideas are connected together, it becomes far easier to remember them. When you have many different associations to the same idea, you can still retain the information even if you forget one association.
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- The storyteller’s art of metaphor is crucial in holistic learning. Remembering mathematical concepts is easier when you have metaphors that relate them to real life events, not just symbols and equations. Becoming a storyteller with your subjects and using powerful metaphors can make even the driest subject stick.
- Coming up with metaphors isn’t as difficult as it sounds, but it requires that you drop your search for the perfect description and look for multiple, simplified images.
- Repeating this metaphor exercise improves your ability to naturally see possible descriptions and images when you encounter new ideas.

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