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1. Learn More Study Less
2. Richard Phillips Feynman ! ! ! • Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! • What Do You Care What Other People Think?
3. warm up • pick a subject • close your eyes • think everything about the subject in your mind
4. • Being smart means being able to learn quickly, remember a large amount of information and be able to sort that information in a way that achieves your goals.
5. • Holistic learning is the opposite of rote memorization.
6. Steps • Acquire • understand • explore • debug • apply • test
7. Understand • understanding means taking raw information and giving it a context. • surface knowledge • e.g. f = ma
8. Explore • Depth Exploration: create links into information. Information comes from somewhere. • Lateral Exploration: create links around information. Information doesn’t stand alone. • Vertical Exploration: Information follows patterns.
9. Depth • where does a formula come form? • how was a discovery made? • why are things the way they are?
10. Lateral • what formulas are similar to this one in function or design? • what other discoveries were made at the same time, by the same person or in the same field? • what other facts surround this one?
11. Vertical • can I compare this formula to a natural event, like water flowing or driving a car? • how does this discovery relate to a completely different historical event? • how is this idea similar to completely different ideas? • example: the highest good is like water(্ળएਫ)
12. •continuous testing
13. construct • defines a set of tightly interlinked understandings. For example, if you’ve tried your hand at learning to create programs with c++, you probably have a c++ construct. This construct defines all your knowledge about c++ and is the sum total of all the interconnected ideas about c++.
14. city • think of a construct as being like a city in your mind. You have thousands of buildings you can travel between. Some are big and important and are linked by roads to hundreds of other buildings in your city. Others are less important and only have a few dirt paths leading to them.
15. Models • Models are simplified constructs. They are snapshots of larger understandings designed to be portable and easy to store.
16. table of contents • A model for a book is the table of contents.
17. • Models are the compressed information of a construct.
18. Highways • linkages between isolated constructs. • if you were reading a biology textbook and made comparisons from evolution to business courses you are taking, that would be a highway.
19. • highways help with creativity. • Thinking out of the box might as well describe people who think outside of constructs.
20. Productive Student • Energy Management • Don’t “Study” • End Procrastination • Batch • Get Organized
21. Manage Energy • Do you exercise 3-5 times per week? • Do you get 7-8 hours of sleep each night? • What do you eat? • How many glasses of water do you drink each day? • What meals do you eat each day?
22. Don’t study • I never study. I’ll read my textbooks. I’ll review notes. I’ll finish assignments and do practice questions. But I never “study”. • A big waste of your time is to spend time “studying” without specifically defining what you want to accomplish.
23. Nuke Procrastination • Weekly/Daily Goals System • 1) At the end of each week, compile a list of all assignments, homework, reading and studying activities you want to do in the following week. • 2)At the end of each day, check your weeky to-do and create a daily goals list.
24. Batching • make it small • build your concentration threshold.
25. Be organised • Mess is the result of homeless • Maintain a calendar and a to-do list
26. Setting Learning Goals • write it down • make it objective. At any point along your progress, you should be able to easily decide whether you have achieved your goal. “Learning more” is not a goal • set difficult, but achievable deadlines • break it into daily and weekly actions • reviews your goals regularly
27. • types of information: Arbitrary, Opinion, Process, Concrete, Abstract • Techniques: Speed Reading, Flow-Based Note Taking, Metaphor, Visceralization, Diagramming, Link Method, Peg Method,
28. • Thank you!