《Learn More, Study Less》读后感10篇

　　《Learn More, Study Less》是一本由Scott H Young著作，USD 39.00出版的147图书，本书定价：平装，页数：2009，文章吧小编精心整理的一些读者的读后感，希望对大家能有帮助。

　　《Learn More, Study Less》读后感(三)：highlight of the book

削减了读的时候做的标记，力求简洁。
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§§ what is holistic learning？
view learning as a comprehensive whole, instead of a list of memorised facts;
Instead of trying to memorise information by making a perfect copy in your brain, use the web of neurons you have.
(It's all about associations, the more the better)
It's not a scientific fact but a metaphor of the way smart people learn.
§§ why？
to be able to quickly integrate new information; for information to stick.
§§ what to apply？
 
not only in academic setting, encompass anything you want to understand. The more broadly you can apply these methods, the better they function.
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§§ elements
1. constructs.
Metaphor: city = buildings + roads.
Goal: create as many interconnections as possible!
2. models.
eg: imagine variables (in computer language) as jars, functions as pencil sharpener.
3. highways.
i.e.: link two complete different ideas, across disciplines.
benefit: creativity. build new territories.
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§§ sequence. (废话，略)
useful points:
1. when acquire knowledge, minimise redundancy.
e.g. Examples could be nice but only when they help you form models. Otherwise, don't bother.
2. explore.
remember: ' Information doesn't exist alone '
find similarity, comparison, pattern, etc.
3. debug and improve your learning system. & Be patient.
'you can start a business without programming skills by hiring a programmer but you can never let other people learn for you.'
Initially changing styles/ adopting new techniques adds a bit of time, but it pays back.
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§§ techniques.
1. active reading.
Don't just highlight sentences. Ask yourself:
a. what are the major points？
b. how can I best remember them？
c. how can I extend or apply them？
2. flow-based note-taking
Beautifully written notes are useless. Simplify, 'Messify'.
Use very few words instead of lengthy sentences.
Draw diagram.
3. project-based learning
one-three months long projects that force you to learn.
Commit your project on paper.
Have an objective outcome.
e.g. write a small application or website (programming); write a short e-book on the subject (history); do an analysis of financial statements for a company (accounting).
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※ It's not time that matters, It's energy. ※
Boost your energy by:
1) exercise often. A small investment in exercise can have a huge impact on your ability to concentrate.
2) low fat/sugar. Eat 4-5 small meals.
3) a lot of water.
Oh, don't even try to cheat your body in giving a few extra hours. you will lose many more later. So:
4) enough sleep.
5) take a day off each week.
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Trap:
A constant struggle — always trying to “study” more, yet always falling a bit short. It’s a lot like dieting.
Simply don't feel guilty because you didn't suffer enough. Instead, itemize what you need to do in order to achieve your goals.
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Advices:
1) Everything has a home.
2) Carry a notepad with your all the time. with a calendar and a to-do list.
3) Read daily.

　　《Learn More, Study Less》读后感(四)：帮人即是帮己

       Scott的所谓整体性学习法，我概括为着力于“获取→理解→拓展→纠错→应用”这五个阶段，辅之以多角度、多感官、多层次、多学科、多实践的联系型学习法。除此之外，本书最大的闪光点是对“费曼学习法”的介绍和引入。
    “费曼学习法”的创始人是德国诺贝尔物理学奖获得者费曼博士，他以短时间内获得很多知识著名。具体方法如下：
    首先，选择好你要学习的知识后，拿出一张白纸，试想着自己是老师，正面向一群完全没有接触过该课程的学生，然后用最浅显易懂的语言最大限度让学生听明白你讲的内容。在此过程中，多用比喻或故事来解释，如遇不清楚之处，要立即返回书本去弄明白。
     学习“费曼学习法”还解开了一个困扰我许久的问题：为何帮助后进生的学霸们没被费时费力的帮扶拖垮反倒越帮越牛呢？原来奥秘在于给后进生讲解时，学霸们其实在一遍遍不断重新认知并厘清所述知识点，对后进生是1的理解，对学霸们则可能是10都不止了，所以，学霸们若被帮扶拖垮了那才真叫奇了大怪了。如此看来，常言道“帮人就是帮己”真是所言非虚啊。

　　《Learn More, Study Less》读后感(五)：学渣逆袭

这本书就是这位超级学霸Scott Young写的，他的事迹有10天学会线性代数，一年学习4年MIT的33课之类的，至于每科至少拿A等，都是不足道啊，只是学霸令人仰视一部分而已。
好了，崇拜够了，就来写写他到底用了什么方法进行学习的，他的目的就是让人人都当学霸，可惜现在我都要毕业了，无法用他的方法来学习然后轻松拿A啊。不过可以用在自学，自学到死。
他开始讲的是基本思想就是把知识联系起来，融会贯通到一个体系。叫做全面学习（这是我翻译的。如有不妥，敬请告知，下面的同理），有五个方面。一为获得知识，二，为理解知识，三为探索知识就是联系起来，又分为三个部分，一为了解知识背景，二为纵向联系，三为横向理解。四为找错误。五为具体运用。
还有信息有五个，像事实的，抽象的，具体的等。
然后就是作者教的方法。写一下影响深刻的。
第一个就是图像法，对于一个抽象的知识，你可以用图像法联系起来，运用这个方法时，你可以把自己第一个想到的东西放到概念里面进行联系不行再找下一个，但不可能找不到完美的图像，只要能让你深刻理解这个知识就可以了。
如果有许多概念，你又想把他们联系起来，你可以用联系方法，把每一个知识点进行图像化，然后用各种联想联系起来，不符合常识也可以，重点是要记得住就可以了。反正思想就是让你把知识联系起来，把知识融会贯通，而不是死记硬背。
还有重要的一点有是把自己学的东西马上用到生活上，就如我自己的经历，那时我看过会计学原理，学习到了资产负债等式，然后每次吃饭我都进行计算，我借了饭菜多少钱，还有贷了多少库存现金，然后这个等式的原理我现在还是记得十分清楚的。故这个运用到生活这个方法真的是大招。一用就学会了，有些不能用的可以用图像法，然后那个图像可以运用到生活上也不一定。
还有最后，作者还讲了如何处理管理精力这类的方法。这和我以前看的许多书讲的大同小异，所以他的方法肯定有一定的实用性。而且他不只一次劝我们要一次只学一种方法，这个是习惯养成的真理，不过真的能按这样做的人很少吧，有些人甚至不行动（像我这样的。。。。）。所以想要成为学霸，把自己比较认同的方法好好落实就可以了。我也拿一个出来进行实践吧，看一下学渣能否逆袭。

　　《Learn More, Study Less》读后感(八)：Learn more study less 笔记

读的是英文版，notes 如下。不过因为豆瓣忽略了所有的格式，可能没有办法看清楚书本的结构与重点
Part I The holistic learning strategy
Construct
When building constructs, your goal is to create as many possible interconnections as possible between ideas. Smart people tend to do this process naturally. As each concept comes up, it is automatically linked with other ideas.
Your constructs weren't built in a day. There is no magical technique to immediately “get” any subject. Having a powerful construct comes from linking concepts together, one idea at a time.
Models:
Models can take a variety of forms. The goal, however, is always the same: compressing information. By taking several core concepts and linking them together into one form, you create a model. Models are essential when you are just starting to build a construct or making large additions to current constructs.
Models do not need to have perfect accuracy, they only need to combine several ideas to make them more manageable.
A model doesn’t need to be an image. It only needs to be an existing understanding that compresses several key ideas into one.
Highway
linkages between isolated constructs. A highway is a reference that links two completely different ideas. If you were reading a biology textbook and made comparisons from evolution to business courses you are taking, that would be a highway.
highways help with creativity. Thinking “outside the box” might as well describe people who think outside of constructs. Highways allow them to do this by making connections between areas that they didn’t previously think were connected.
Familiar constructs:
Sensory constructs
Relationship constructs
Basic math constructs
The Sequence of Holistic Learning
1) Acquire
Simplicity, volume, speed
2) Understand
3) Explore
A holistic learner would take the formula I mentioned in the last phase, and explore it. Where does it come from？ What do the different components of the formula represent？ What elements of the formula can be altered and how does that change results？ What other formulas are similar to this in function or form？
Answering these questions may take a bit of time if you aren’t used to them. But once you make these methods a habit, exploration will naturally take over. Understanding won’t be enough because curiosity will drive you to connect it to new material.
depth, lateral and vertical exploration
Depth exploration
Depth exploration requires that you create links into information. Instead of just understanding a formula, you understand its proof. You understand why the proof was developed and by whom. Now, through depth exploration, your formula becomes supported underneath a foundation of other linked ideas.
Lateral exploration
Lateral exploration requires that you create links around information. Usually this means that you take models and link information between them. Relating one event that occurred in Ancient Greece with another event that took place in Ancient China.
Lateral exploration requires less research than depth exploration, but more creativity. It requires that you see connections that might not be present initially.
Vertical exploration
Information follows patterns, those patterns can be found in other information.
4) Debug
5) Apply
Test
Acquire Test - Have I seen/listened to the idea before？
Understand Test - Do I get (at a surface level) what this idea means？
Explore Test - Do I understand where this idea comes from, what it is related to and what outside ideas can be connected with it？
Debug Test - Have I removed inappropriate links between this idea and others？ Have I removed false conclusions based on connections that don’t actually exist？
Apply Test - Have I used this idea in my practical life？
Pinpointing weakness in the sequence
Acquiring
1) You have bad reading/study habits.
2) You have bad note taking habits.
3) You don’t understand the basic terminology or the English language.
Understanding
Exploration: inflexibility
Poor exploration is shown by inflexibility. It happens when you get the gist of an idea, but can’t relate it to other things you have learned. If you are asked to use the idea to solve a non-routine problem, you’re screwed.
Debugging
A sign you don’t do enough debugging is if you don’t regularly find yourself to be wrong on a major belief or issue. If you always think you are correct, chances are you aren’t doing enough critical examination of the connections you make.
Applying
Applying errors are caused when you can’t act on ideas in the real world.
Information structure
1. Arbitrary
Arbitrary information is a set of facts, dates, definitions or rules that have no logical grouping. This type of information is often encountered in schools and less frequently in the real world.
Technique: try to find the logical pattern in the information.
Linking, pegging, compression
2. Opinion
Opinion information is information you need to argue.
Technique: speed reading technique, diagraming
3. Process
Process information is information you need to act upon.
Technique: Visceralization/Metaphor /Diagramming/Model Debugging
4. Concrete
Concrete information deals with ideas you can interact with tangibly.
5. Abstract
Abstract information is like concrete information, but it lacks the obvious connection with the senses.
Technique: Visceralization/Metaphor
Goals for learning
Just passing tests and getting good grades isn’t enough. Why do you actually want to learn this material？ What usefulness can it have in your life？
Finding ways to use a subject can give it new meaning
Part II Holistic Learning Techniques
A) Acquiring Ideas
1) Speed Reading
Using a pointer/practice reading/active reading
Active reading: note down the following:
1) What the major points are from the section.
2) How I can remember the major points from the section.
3) How I can extend or apply the major points from this section.
2) Flow-Based Notetaking
With flow-based note-taking you start by only writing out the major ideas. This means using a few words at most instead of entire sentences. This can reduce readability later, but it enhances learning during the lecture.
The key ability with flow-based notetaking is to know what is important. What is the core information taught here？ If you write down everything said in a lecture with equal emphasis, then you’ll spend your entire class transcribing instead of thinking.
B) Linking Ideas
1) Metaphor
Tips to improve metaphors:
1) Start by asking for a metaphor.
2) Pick the first thing that comes to mind.
3) Refine and test your metaphors.
2) Visceralization
describe imagining not only a mental picture, but sounds, sensations and emotions.
How to visceralize:
1) Identify the concept you want to visceralize.
2) 2) Start by picking a mental image to base the idea from.
3) Does the process move through time, or is it a static image？
4) Now add another sensation to your image.
5) Add other sensations or emotional impacts t o the image.
6) Refine and repeat the image until you can bring it up in just a few seconds of thinking of it.
4) Diagramming
Flow-based diagrams: charting a sequence of steps; charting historical events, creating branches linking events together not only through causation but through the time period they rest; mapping out a system
Concept-Based Diagrams: A concept based diagram links together ideas and is closely related to flow-based notetaking.
Image Diagrams: any rough sketch or doodle used to represent an idea or the association of ideas.
C) Handling the Arbitrary
1) You should use them infrequently.
2) They are more complex than linking methods.
Weak – Learning through repetition.
Better – Learning with linking, pegging or information compression.
Best – Learning with metaphor, visceralization or diagrams.
1) Linking
Step 1: create your sequence
Step 2: symbolize each object in the list
Step 3: create your links
Difficulties: repetition of symbols, broken links, indecipherable symbols, lost triggers
2) Pegging
With the peg system you aren’t linking a series of ideas with each other but with a specific numbered slot.
3) Information Compression
mnemonics, picture linking and notes reduction
Mnemonics: Devices that store several ideas together by using a phrase or word that can organize the information.
picture linking: link several ideas together by representing them in a single image, theme or concept.
Notes comparison:
1) Give yourself several blank sheets of white paper.
2) Starting with the smallest writing you can use, write down a major idea from your notes.
3) Next to that idea, write a related idea, formula, concept or definition.
4) Continue this process of writing ideas in a loose format, until you have written down, in reduced form, every major idea from your notes.
D) Extending Ideas
1) Practical Usage
Apply the material in your practical life
2) Model Debugging
Tips for improving the model-debugging process
Separate Typos From Concept Errors
The shotgun approach: tackles a few questions of each type, but doesn’t become repetitive.
Spread practice times out
3) Project-Based Learning
Eg:
1) Computer Programming- Design a project that will take you 1-3 months of
work to complete. This could be a small application, a website or game.
2) History-Write a short e-book about the historical subject you want to study. Write one that will get you to do research as well as create your own thesis.
3) Financial Accounting - Pick several companies and do a complete analysis of their financial statements before deciding who you would invest money in
Some tips
Keep it small
Write it down
Create an objective outcome
Part II Beyond holistic learning
The productive student
Manage your energy
1. Exercise 3-5 times per week
2. Get 7-8 hours of sleep each night
3. Eat a diet that emphasize whole grains and unprocessed foods
4. Drink much water
5. Eat 4-5 smaller meals throughout the day to ensure a more constant supply of nutrients.
Circular scheduling
1) Seta day off each week. I take one day off every week where I don’t do any schoolwork. Compressing seven days of work into six might seem difficult at first, but taking a day off prevents burnout.
2) Evenings off. Compress all your work into the morning. Instead of taking
breaks throughout the day, get your work done early so you can have a few hours off each night.
3) 90 minute time boxes. Set aside 90 minutes towards a project or studying. After the ninety minutes is complete, you stop working. Time boxing can help you keep your studying time focused.
Do not study
Instead of studying, define the activities you need to perform in order to learn the material. For myself these are the activities I need to do in order to get an A or A+ in most classes:
1) Read the chapters covered
2) Complete assignments and take notes in class
3) Use some of the holistic learning methods to tackle trouble spots.
4) Optionally take a set of flow-based notes for the material covered before tests.
Nuke Procrastination
(A) As soon as it is assigned.
(B) All in one session, some time between today and the due date.
(C) Tuesday night.
(D) Wednesday morning, ten minutes before class!
Weekly/Daily Goals System
1) At the end of each week, compile a list of all t he assignments, homework, reading and studying activities you want to do in the following week.
2) At the end of each day, check your weekly to-do and create a daily goals list.
Batching
Batching involves taking a group of similar, small sections of work and doing them at one time.
Be Organized
1) Everything has a home.
2) Carry a notepad with you at all times
3) Maintain a calendar and a to-do list .
Structuring learning habits
Daily Reading
Daily Practice
Daily goal setting
How to build daily habits
1) Set a trial t o condition a habit for 30 days.
2) Be consistent.
3) Enjoy the habit.
4) Pick a time
Overcoming the frustration barrier
1) Write Down any Obstacles.
2) Use Forums.
3) Get How-To Manuals .
4) Attack From a New Angle.
Setting learning goals
1) All Goals Need to Be Written.
2) Make it Objective.
3) Set Difficult, But Achievable Deadlines.
4) Break it Into Daily and Weekly Actions.
5) Review Your Goals Regularly.

　　《Learn More, Study Less》读后感(十)：Book Notes

“If you understand something in only one way, then you don't really understand it at all. The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've connected it to all other things we know. Well-connected representations let you turn ideas around in your mind, to envision things from many perspectives until you find one that works for you. And that's what we mean by thinking!” --Marvin Minsky
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.
It wasn’t just that smart people learned better or faster. They learned differently. Smarts requires a different strategy.
Smart people tend to make fewer distinctions between branches of knowledge and can easily relate one set of understandings to another.
Holistic learning takes a different approach.Instead of trying to memorize information by making a perfect copy in your brain, it uses the web of neurons you have. Holistic learning creates webs of information. One idea relates to another idea. That interrelating of ideas allows you to easily navigate through complete understandings.
it is impossible to learn an idea in isolation. Learning anything requires associations. The more associations you can create and the stronger those associations are, the better.
Holistic learning is based on linking ideas as a way of remembering and applying them. The best techniques to start learning are metaphor, visceralization, flow-based notetaking and diagraming. These methods form the foundation of holistic learning.
A construct defines a set of tightly interlinked understandings.
When building constructs, your goal is to create as many possible interconnections as possible between ideas.
Models can take a variety of forms. The goal, however, is always the same: compressing information.
Models do not need to have perfect accuracy, they only need to combine several ideas to make them more manageable. As my understanding of subspaces grew, I made adjustments to my previous model and created new models.
A highway is a reference that links two completely different ideas. The benefit of a highways isn’t an immediately obvious one. However, highways help with creativity. Thinking “outside the box” might as well describe people who think outside of constructs. Highways allow them to do this by making connections between areas that they didn’t previously think were connected. Creativity can be seen as being able to utilize these highways to build new constructs in territories that were previously empty.
In all cases, your ability to handle a medium of information forms the first filter which can enhance or destroy your learning efforts. Any information lost here is gone forever. No amount of holistic learning techniques can make up for a failure to acquire the important ideas.
When acquiring information, you have three major goals:
1) Simplicity
2) Volume
3) Speed
Input is nothing without comprehension. If you don’t understand the surface of what a book is trying to say, the chances of remembering it for an exam or applying it in real life are almost nonexistent.
Learning by rote is learning with only the Understand Phase. The Understand Phase, is where most people stop and smart people go beyond.
Despite the limitations of stopping at this phase, it is the most critical. Unless you can acquire and understand the surface of information, you have no chance of building depth.
Not being able to understand something instantly, isn't a sign you aren't learning holistically. My suggestion, when you encounter a tricky subject is to break it into components. Narrow down specifically what you don't understand so you can use further reading to fill the gaps.
Exploration is really the start of holistic learning. There are three major ways you can explore ideas: depth, lateral and vertical exploration. Depth exploration is probably the best method to lock an idea in place, but also the most time consuming. Lateral exploration requires less research than depth exploration, but more creativity. It requires that you see connections that might not be present initially. Vertical exploration is the most difficult, but also the most creative way to learn.
Creating diagrams can help with vertical, lateral and depth exploration. Metaphor and visceralization both work best with vertical exploration.
Debugging can be seen as pruning back the holistic web. Adding exceptions and breaking connection that don’t exist in reality.
The only way to debug is to practice. You can cut down on practicing time if you form a solid foundation in the first three steps.
Application is part practice and part creativity as you take theories and force them onto the real world. A certain amount of all information is subconscious. That subconscious portion might not be developed if you fail to apply. Someone who has read a library of business books may understand concepts, but someone who has run a business can feel them.
Whenever you try new methods, information might get lost or absorbed differently. Testing allows you to track what your weaknesses are, so improvements can be made.
Testing isn’t a complicated process, but it requires a lot of self-awareness.
The sequence of holistic learning isn’t really a sequence at all. Instead it is a cycle that constantly jumps between steps. Try to avoid seeing these steps as linear but as part of an ongoing cycle to create understandings.
The solution to poor acquisition is to improve your study, reading and note taking habits.
Even if you feel you can’t understand your subjects, I’ve found that this is rarely the main problem. Usually most people can understand the basics of an idea. It is the cross application and linking required to remember ideas that most people stumble on.
When you don’t understand, slow down and ask for different explanations.
Poor debugging is shown by inaccurate connections. I find this is less common in the classroom, and more common in the outside world.
A sign you don’t do enough debugging is if you don’t regularly find yourself to be wrong on a major belief or issue. If you always think you are correct, chances are you aren’t doing enough critical examination of the connections you make.
As a learner, however, you can’t hire someone to explore or apply ideas. You have only one brain, so you need to focus on fixing weak points in the sequence.
Arbitrary information is a set of facts, dates, definitions or rules that have no logical grouping.
Your first goal with arbitrary information is to make it less arbitrary. If there is a logical pattern in the information, try to find that first. Otherwise the job of remembering and using the information becomes more difficult.
If that can’t be accomplished, these methods also work well:
Linking Pegging Compression
The one benefit of arbitrary information is that it is relatively easy to understand.
But this upside is also a curse. Since there is little understanding required, there is also little exploration that can be done. Therefore, this type of information is the most likely to be forgotten without sheer rote memorization. Linking, pegging and compression can help, but they can’t entirely compensate for the tricky nature of this structure.
Opinion information is information you need to argue. With opinion information, your biggest problem is the acquiring phase. Speed reading techniques are a great asset in gathering information. Diagraming is also a useful method with opinion information.
Practice is the most important element to learning any idea you need to act upon repeatedly, but creating the right background concepts is also crucial for saving time.
Most process information relies on having the right models. Here are some techniques to improve your models:
Visceralization Metaphor Diagraming Model Debugging
The biggest challenge with process information is that you need to actually put in the practice time. The benefit of process information is that, if you do practice, it tends to stick with you much longer than almost any other form of information.
Most information sits on a spectrum between abstract and concrete, the difference can often be based more on the way it is presented than the content itself.
Visceralization can be helpful if you want to put information into more than one of your senses.
Abstract information is like concrete information, but it lacks the obvious connection with the senses.
Abstract information is the complete opposite of arbitrary information. Very difficult to understand but the pattern is highly logical.
When dealing with abstract information, you need to move it to a concrete level.
Visceralization and metaphor are essential to bring complex ideas down to a basic level. Model debugging plays prominent role because your initial attempts to model an idea may have unintended errors.
When you need to learn a new topic, decide what major category or categories your information fits within. Deciding which category you need to learn can help you determine what techniques to use when learning and what obstacles you might face in remembering.
An arbitrary structure is the weakest structure for information. It is the hardest to
learn holistically, takes the longest to learn effectively and has little value outside its specific application. If possible, try to find patterns that make arbitrary information more logical.
Concrete and process structures are the strongest structures of information. Both of them create tangible experiences that help you link any new ideas through your senses.
Learning without a practical purpose is a waste of your time.
With acquiring information I’ve found two methods helpful, speed reading and flow-based notetaking.
Visceralization is my word to describe imagining not only a mental picture, but sounds, sensations and emotions. Often a mental image will work, but connecting an idea to several senses and even emotional states can create a stronger link than a picture.
Weak – Learning through repetition.
Better – Learning with linking, pegging or information compression.
Best – Learning with metaphor, visceralization or diagrams.
Information Compression:
Mnemonics are devices that store several ideas together by using a phrase or word that can organize the information. Using a mnemonic is as simple as collecting several ideas you want to compress together and picking a word or phrase you could use to organize them.
Picture linking
Notes compression
Practical usage isn’t a step-by-step technique. It is a creative process of looking for unusual ways you can apply the ideas you are ingesting.
When you get questions wrong, you need to separate simple errors that can easily be fixed, from those that represent a failure to understand key ideas. In the case of simple errors, just repeat a new question and learn from it. In the case of concept errors, go back to your models, metaphors and visceralizations to see if you made mistakes in the reasoning process.
Spending hours repeating the same type of questions is no different from rote memorization. I prefer to spend my time debugging on a shotgun approach, which tackles a few questions of each type, but doesn’t become repetitive.
Project-based learning can be useful when you don’t have an instructor or a final exam. It simply means constructing a 1-3 month project that will force you to learn. Here are some tips:
Keep it Small.
Write it Down.
Create an Objective Outcome.
Productivity Tips:
Energy Management
Don't “Study”
End Procrastination
Batch
Get Organized
Energy Management:
1) Increase your energy capacity. (do exercise; enough sleep time; eat healthy; drink more water; meals on time)
2) Switch your schedule from a linear format to a circular format. A linear schedule has work spread evenly over the entire time period. A circular schedule focuses on doing a lot of work earlier with ample rest time afterwards. (set a day off each week; evenings off; 90 minute timeboxes)
Don't “Study”:
Instead of studying, define the activities you need to perform in order to learn the material. Unless you itemize what you need to do in order to learn, you’ll waste endless hours “studying” instead of optimizing your time to actually learn.
End Procrastination:
Beating procrastination doesn’t mean just completing work earlier. (using Weekly/Daily Goals System)
Batching:
Batching involves taking a group of similar, small sections of work and doing them at one time. Batching helps cut down studying time because you can focus completely instead of switching between tasks.
Get Organized:
Everything has a home; Carry a notepad with you at all times; Maintain a calendar and a to-do list
Self-education comes with its own unique challenges. Without the structure of school, it is harder to maintain a focus, find resources and test your understanding.
Structuring Learning Habits:
Daily Reading (Books can’t teach you everything, but they form a solid foundation of ideas you can build any learning efforts from. By reading a large volume, you can structure your education more effectively, getting a wide variety of viewpoints on a subject instead of just one.)
Daily Practice (Practicing helps provide a structure for your learning, since it is the first time you will have a benchmark of your abilities.)
Daily Goal Setting
A few tips on setting your learning goals:
All Goals Need to Be Written. (Write down your goal as a few sentences, along with a deadline.)
Make it Objective.
Set Difficult, But Achievable Deadlines.
Break it Into Daily and Weekly Actions.
Review Your Goals Regularly.