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2349: These 4 Steps Will Help You Learn Quicker and Retain More by Dominic Zijlstra

Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

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Learning Science - Four Steps to Building Your Tree of Knowledge

Learn by drawing a map. Write down everything you already know about the subject. Trigger your memory with questions like, how does this relate to topics you are already familiar with? How does this tie into your personal experience? And what challenges you? As you draw patterns start to emerge and you make new connections, you can literally see your knowledge growing. To learning doesn't happ and isolation. New information needs to be connected to what we already know in order to stick elon musk. Creating feedback loops is essential for detecting failure and making improvements. Learning requires re wiring your brain. The ones that don't generally don't learn much. Nobell prize winning physicist richard finman said,

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