Strategic speed learning:
- Safety Netting —>>> Logical backbone
- Core basics —>>> Significant & immediate
- Admin & Good for you —>>> Hard for me & less important
- Jumpy learning & strategic drowning —>>>
1. Safety Netting: Making sure you have the reasons on why you want to learn something
Questions to ask:
- what are we talking about?
- why is it important?
- how important is this?
- what can i do when i learn this?
- what can i NOW do even after i learned this?
- where can i find further knowledge?
these makes sure you have a more realistic and calculated expectation and reduce disappointment when you feel like you haven’t learned enough
more realistic scenario like in lectures:
- what we’re talking about is…?
- what you actually meant by that is…?
- so when this happens, this happens?
2. Focusing on the Core Basics
Making sure that the rules that are SO simple that teachers and educators forget about them because they think that people learning about something already know about the core basics
Core basics are the things that can make learning faster as this is the backbone of what you’ll need to continue to learn further
ask yourself “what are the core basics i can teach myself?”
things to ask:
- what are the things you do every day/week without fail
- what’s essential here
- what distinguishes the pro from the amateur
- how fast can i learn this
then focus deep on the basics
progress:
- – identify a core skill
- – test the core skill in different contexts
- – find where i can’t use the core skill (basically the limits)
- – strong core basics means better and faster learning later
3. Categorizing Information
- Safety net: the logical backbone. Everything relies on this
- Core basics: Significant and Immediate
- Admin: Hard for me and not that much of a priority
- Good for you: You don’t really care and aren’t important
slowed read the information and slot the main topics in the categories and prioritise the safety net and core basics
4. Jumpy Learning & Strategic drowning
- don’t learn the things in the order given to you, learn them by how interested you are in it. this keeps your attention and motivation high and avoid early dull parts.