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- First try to get across the major idea: do not get stuck in the details (they will come later)
- Solve problems (test yourself): Large part of learning is problem solving (make mistakes)
- Go back and forth between different things: do not get stuck in one thing over and over agian
- Set aside to fully study something and some time to freely explore it.
- Review notes for 5-10 minutes and catch doubts and ambiguities
- Learn, Present, Critique and correct errors (repeat) (and make exercises).
Seems to work | Does not seem to work |
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Switching between focused mode and diffuse mode: setting a quitting time. | Reading tired (or without caffeine) as I end up falling asleep or not understanding anything |
Spaced repetition (SR): 3 correct recalls during initial learning, and relearning 3 times at widely spaced intervals | Focusing on the process not the product. What exactly does that mean? |
Notetaking: Having my (own) notes on the topics to search for them later (e.g. 2SLS in Econometrics 2) | Notetaking: writing everything down in my notebook - A note is a container of thought that has meaning for the person who made it. - Sequential notes have the limitation that they follow the teacher's logical explanation, instead of a holistic and conceptual approach. |
Feynman Technique: 1. Study X 2. Try to teach X in the most basic way possible (without notes) 3. Idenfity gaps in knowlede of X and go back and understand better 4. Repeat | a |
Doing more than 1 draft when solving exercises, to be able to go over them 2 or 3 times | epa |
- Reading all the course material before the actual class
- Reviewing notes and creating flash cards afterwards on most complicated topics
- Reading all the course material before the actual class
- Plan, Preview, View (go to class), Review, Practice Test, Repeat (How I Take 0 Notes in Medical School )
- Figure out what my weakest links are (macroeconomics, time series, diminished chords) and improve them: "If the exam were tomorrow, what topic would I be the most pissed off about?
- Testing myself inside the "FLOW" area: where my knowledge/skill on the topic matches linearly the difficulty level