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Teaching Others How to Learn
José Elías De León M.
Created on November 4, 2022
A Guide to improve our learning
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Teaching others how to learn
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10 Rules of Good Studying
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Use recall
Test yourself
After you read a page, look away and recall the main ideas. Highlight very little, and never highlight anything you haven’t put in your mind first by recalling.
On everything. All the time. Flash cards are your friend.
10 Rules of Good Studying
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Chunk your problems
Space your repetition
Spread out your learning in any subject a little every day, just like an athlete. Your brain is like a muscle—it can handle only a limited amount of exercise on one subject at a time.
Chunking is understanding and practicing with a problem solution so that it can all come to mind in a flash.
10 Rules of Good Studying
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Take breaks
Use explanatory questioning and simple analogies
It is common to be unable to solve problems or figure out concepts in math or science the first time you encounter them.
Whenever you are struggling with a concept, think to yourself, How can I explain this so that a ten-year-old could understand it? Using an analogy really helps, like saying that the flow of electricity is like the flow of water.
10 Rules of Good Studying
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Focus
Eat your frogs first
Turn off all interrupting beeps and alarms on your phone and computer, and then turn on a timer for twenty-five minutes.
Do the hardest thing earliest in the day, when you are fresh.
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Quiz yourself randomly on different types of problems
Make a mental contrast
Imagine where you’ve come from and contrast that with the dream of where your studies will take you.
Another way to do this is to randomly flip through your book, pick out a problem, and see whether you can solve it cold.