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Gain broader context. Broader context helps you understand when to use the chunk and when not to. This helps with fitting the chunk into the bigger picture, and to apply your knowledge to new problems. You can gain this broader context by repeating and practising it in different situations – this strengthens the connections to your chunk, and builds many different “paths” to it. Skimming ahead to later chapters or lectures can also help gain a sense of the big picture. Focus your attention on the information you want to chunk. You’re making new neural patterns and connecting them with pre-existing patterns in your brain. It's not a coincidence that we experience "aha!" insights when we step away from a problem we've been working hard for a while. Harness this phenomenon. When working on something particularly hard, it’s helpful to sleep on it and return to it the next day. The more time you have between focus sessions, the more likely you are to make breakthroughs and see things in new ways. The problems of procrastination and how to deal with it. There were four chapters dedicated for it. (And it was here I found myself, a little, dragging the book).
Getting that out of the way, let's focus on the good. The book is clearly written, easy to follow, and frequently engaging.Math and science are best learned in small daily doses so your brain has the time to absorb and internalize what you’ve learned. So, make sure you alternate between focused and diffused thinking. This is also known as “distributed practice”, i.e. taking breaks between learning sessions instead of doing mass-learning. I got a "B" in maths, I hated Pythagoras and never understood why I needed to know about triangles, because of that I dropped behind in my class.My tutors thought I could get an A if I applied myself but unfortunately I was frustrated, so I didn't. Practice and repetition which helps you build and strengthen each chunk, so you can easily gain access to it when needed. Francisco J. Ayala, University Professor and Donald Bren Professor of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine, and former President and Chairman of the Board, American Association for the Advancement of Science The main challenge with repetition and practise is that it can be boring. [With recall, I think the challenge is also that it’s hard. We don’t like the sense of failure that comes when we try to recall something and fail. We prefer the illusion of competence involved in re-reading.] But practising regularly for short periods, is much more effective than practising infrequently for long bursts. Improving your memory
The techniques explained in the book are applicable to anyone, at any stage of life and learning. I highly recommend this book to everyone and especially those who are in transition stages of education, like coming up to university. It is very easy as a student to drift away from a task, to become too fixated on flawed approaches, to leave revision to the last minute before exams. However, this book showed me that the power to re-shape our brain is in our own hands. The key is persistence and working with consideration to your brain’s strengths and weaknesses. We all have a natural feel and flair for math and science. Basically, we just need to master the lingo and culture.” Happy to see the late Seth Roberts show up. He went too far and dogmatic, but his impulse towards self-experiments is great.Here is a small example: how are you reading books? Are you highlighting key ideas? Maybe you’re like me and trying to highlight every useful piece of information. But study had shown that this technique not only useless, but could be harmful. You should try to understand the basic idea, try to recall it without looking into the book and only after that, you may highlight key pieced with some insightful notes on the martins. How to adjust your chunking practices (e.g. incorporate “interleaving”) as you become more familiar with a task or subject; and
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