Scott Yang (Scott Young) Quick Learning method

I was encouraged to see Scott Yang's Quick learning method on the Internet in the morning.

Now I have been to graduate school, but I have found that since I went to college, I find that my learning method has a lot of problems.

I am a special like to read, in the university four years, read a lot of books, but to now, seems to have all forgotten, the knowledge of the book is not remember, really feel that spend so much time, read so many books, but no one is self-remembering prison. I have been thinking about this question before, whether I have a problem, but people's habits are always accustomed to stay in the inert area. I've tried to fix it before, but I didn't stick with it, and after seeing Scott Yang's experience today, I thought it was time to stick with his method.

His method is in fact the way I went to high school, but unfortunately I have not insisted on college, university I lazy, now I really should decide to use this method, although the time is slower, but efficiency, the benefits are more than 10 times times. The basic structure of this method is: knowledge, practice, introspection.

First stage: Knowledge coverage

is to first use the quickest way to read a book, or a learning video. In many ways, this phase is the least efficient, because your input per unit of time is only for the smallest amount of knowledge return. If you're reading a book, I suggest you don't take the time to highlight the text. This will only keep your knowledge understanding at a low level and, in the long run, make learning inefficient. A better approach is to read only occasional notes, or to write a summary of a paragraph after reading each of the main chapters.

Stage Two: Practice

Doing exercises can greatly contribute to your knowledge understanding. However, if you are not careful, you may fall into two efficiency traps:

1. No immediate feedback: research shows that if you want to learn better, you need instant feedback. Therefore, it is best to do the answer in the hand, the world I have, each completed a question on the answer, self-censorship. A late practice without feedback or feedback will only seriously hamper learning efficiency;
2. Stuffed: Just as some people think that learning is the beginning of classroom, some students also think that most of the knowledge understanding is produced from the exercises. Yes, you can always end up with a knowledge framework through stuffed, but the process is slow and inefficient.

Exercises should highlight the areas of knowledge that you need to build a better intuition. Some tricks, like the Feynman technique I'm going to talk about (the Feynman technique), are pretty effective.

Phase III: Introspection

Knowledge coverage, and doing exercises, is to let you know what you do not understand. This is not as easy as it sounds, after all, it is difficult to know what to know and not to know. You think you know, in fact, not, so the old make mistakes, or, you have a comprehensive discipline in the heart of the end, but also do not see exactly where you do not understand.

The next technique, which I call "Feynman's skills," will help you to check out the gaps and go farther on the way to knowledge. This technique helps you fill in the gaps in knowledge, especially those that are most difficult to fill, when you can accurately identify points of knowledge that you do not understand. This technique can also be dual-use. Even if you really understand an idea, it also allows you to relate more ideas, so you can continue to delve into and deepen your understanding.

　　The Feynman technique is simple:

1. Take a blank sheet of paper;
2. Write an idea or process that you want to understand on the top of the white paper;
3. Explain it in your own words, just as you teach others.

A famous scientist once said that if you can't explain something to your grandmother, it means you haven't fully understood it yet. Simplification is an art that strengthens the thinking connection between basic concepts and complex ideas.

A strategy to learn faster

In this article, I describe the three stages of learning: knowledge, practice, and introspection. But it can make you misunderstand that they are always executed at different times, never overlapping or repeating. In fact, as you continue to understand knowledge in depth, you may go through these stages in a cycle. You have just started to read a chapter, can only have a superficial impression, but after doing exercises and establishing intuition, you come back to reread, and there will be a deeper understanding, that is, warm and know new.

　　

　　The summary is:

1. Use the fastest time to finish a book and summarize each chapter, taking notes

2. Do exercises, for after-school exercises, to finish and contrast the answer, review their knowledge of the gaps.

3. The use of Feynman skills, the entire content of the book, the key point, on the white Paper to the learning of the younger brother to speak out, so as to truly transform their knowledge.

Scott Yang (Scott Young) Quick Learning method