Tips: How to Learn

This is a list of items from some notes I took down years ago that may be applied to learning anything.

• Know the difference between focused thinking and diffuse thinking.
• Allocate study times of 25 minutes and ensure interruptions and distractions are removed
• Practice recall by going to difference physical locations and write down what you remember.
• Think on the contrast from where you are in the material to where you want to be in the material.
• Deliberately focus on the hard material.
• Write a plan and schedule the night before.
• Focus on the process of learning, not the end product.
• When stuck trying to remember something, close eyes and breathe deeply.
• Do not fall to the illusion of competency.
• Personalize concepts, pretend they are people you know.
• When memorizing concepts, use analogies, metaphors, and visualizations.
• Compile a study guide for the material, consisting of basic elementary school things like "fill-in-the-blank" and vocabulary sheets.