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- smurf22, on 10/10/2007, -1/+70I just use the genius pills the nigerian prince sent me. All I had to do was give him 5,000 dollars he said he'd pay me back.
- jwmcevoy, on 10/10/2007, -8/+58Alternate Title: How to subvertly advertize an Apple product
- SpyDerMann, on 11/01/2007, -0/+48Wrong summary: IMHO the title should be "How to learn more and MEMORIZE less". Memorizing is NOT learning. Quoting Feynman, you could memorize the entire works of Plato (in greek) and still not understand a word of what you're saying. UNDERSTANDING, on the other hand...
- AUmrysh, on 10/10/2007, -1/+45I now smell the relationship between Sine and Cosine. Smells kind of like tomato soup. Valence electrons taste like spearmint.
- alx1507, on 10/10/2007, -0/+28now if only I could remember these techniques... lets try,
These techniques remind me of digg, digg reminds me of technology, technology reminds me of the internet, the internet reminds me of pointless stuff I look at, some pointless stuff I look at is porn, which reminds me... i'll be back in a bit. - Shiftyeyedgoat, on 10/10/2007, -4/+30Hi, I'm a biomedical engineer, not an English major.
Sitting in a circle, chanting, while listening to new-age trance with the air saturated in incense won't make me better at what I do. - greenlight2001, on 10/10/2007, -1/+21At first I was calling ***** before I even opened the website. Most of this stuff is complete crap. I'm currently in my second year of medical school, I KNOW about studying. I do it for a living. I do quite well in school, too (easily top 10%). When I was reading down the page, I realized that this is exactly what I do when I study for med school. The kids who rote memorize facts for medical school are your 70-80% on a test people. The people who link ideas and concepts and incorporate other learning modalities, are the ones who float up too the top of the class. The more ways you interact with the information, the better you brain is about sorting it all out and recalling it later. So this stuff actually work (well, at least for me).
- curios, on 10/10/2007, -0/+18That's the purpose of their website. From the about page - Zen Habits covers: achieving goals, productivity, being organized, GTD, motivation, eliminating debt, saving, getting a flat stomach, eating healthy, simplifying, living frugal, parenting, happiness, and successfully implementing good habits.
The article, 16 ways to get motivated when you're in a slump, did actually inspire me the other day, to focus on my mission and goals and not get sidetracked and distracted. - Gabberwok, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15b.s. schools make honors classes out of 5, and sometimes AP classes out of 6. Occasionally colleges have gpas out of 4.3 for A+'s. Basically, if your GPA isn't out of 4.0, someone's full of crap.
- SuckMyDigg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14"subvertly" isn't a word. But I understand what you're getting at, and it still doesn't make sense, because you obviously picked it up right away.
- mightyjlr, on 10/10/2007, -5/+18or get a prescription for Adderall...
- SuckMyDigg, on 10/10/2007, -6/+184.2 gpa? What?
- h4mx0r, on 10/10/2007, -2/+14Test coming up? Just ***** the test! ***** it man!
- tymonn, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13Great job dude ;)
- theojanke, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10He goes to the University of Manitoba, in Canada. Our GPA here is calculated out of 4.5.
Like this:
4.5 A+
4.0 A
3.5 B+
3 B
2.5 C+
2.0 C
etc... - dbalaski, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7
Pretty well put together -- a lot of people don't really understand the difference between rote and learning.
Here are some things to add to the list that I have found extremely helpful:
1) At the end of class -- Don't rush out of class -- spend 3-5 minutes reviewing notes taken during class -- good chance to re-enforce what you have learned and possibly ask prof to clarify something as well.
2) Before class begins, review the notes you took during your last class in this subject. Saved my backside often on quizzes , as well as being able to relate the current class concepts back.
Both these habits help re-enforce what you are learning very well.
3) All nighter cram sessions don't work. Based on psychology, your shouldn't spend more than 1.5 hrs on any one subject -- you really won't retain much (the retention curve drop in a negative exponential fashion.) If your spend an hour on a mathematics intensive subject, then switch off for something opposite (Like history, languages etc).. Take a little break in between. Your retention will be much better -- and your brain will thank you.
4) especially for college folks -- it's okay to write notes for yourself in the books -- if an idea stuck me I made a note of it right next to the passage. If something the prof said related or was of special interest, then I noted it. Always came in handy at exam time.
I'm not too crazy about highlighting -- I've found people mostly highlight practically everything...
I really appreciate that he says Visceralize & Metaphor -- I've always tried to look for ways to relate what I am learning in class to something I've seen/experienced. Even coming up with allegorical comparisons -- worked well in understanding how things work.
Add these to the article -- it rounds it out nicely. - Gabberwok, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Why did he wait until the end to let me know his tips won't work for my anatomy exam? ***** bracchial plexus....
- muffinmanpoo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5No, he probably would have said "How to subvertly advertize a Dell product".
It still wouldn't have made any sense... - duzytata, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6From the looks of things you sure did ***** learning a long time ago....
- greenlight2001, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6You gave no real advise on your blog. You just repeated what you wrote here.
- SuckMyDigg, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5I'm old enough to know how to check when someone joined Digg and by the look of it you're the noob.
- psbpv3o, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Science and math are tasty!
- AUmrysh, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5I think the use of holistic was kind of misguided on the writers part. Those are good studying techniques that any professor might tell you to use, they just don't call them holistic.
- santaliqueur, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5So if it was a big Dell logo, you'd have said the same thing, right?
- zeromancer, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4based on your statement, i assume you are in high school. a lot of people can do that in high school. high school is a big joke compared to college. and if you're not in high school, i'll bend over and kiss my own ass.
- SuckMyDigg, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4What the hell? Did you even read the article?
- Fordi, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Strangely enough, I have ADD - and still learn quite well. When I was young, I learned to focus all my threads of attention into connecting those things I was learning at school. The connections would become sufficiently disparate to keep me occupied. Books are similarly involving - I pay particular attention to the different physical, theoretical, social, and potential aspects of every event that occurs.
It makes me a pain in the ass to talk to in person, though. I keep going fully off-topic to verbally vomit an epiphany on a diffrent thread of thought. I've been called on this so many times that my girlfriend's coping mechanism is to think it's some cute little quirk of mine, rather than it being a symptom of how my brain works. Then she pulls out her keys and jingles them to get my attention (via shiny things).
That it works particularly well is rather insulting, but I can't actually deny the tactic. - Sinistocrat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3In this case, you would have to first learn the basics of the language by memorization (it shouldn't be too hard to learn the basic structure). After that, you relate all further information learned about the language (such as words and grammar) to this basic model you've created for yourself. While this may sound intuitive, many people tend to stick with rote memorization even after they've built themselves a solid foundation in a subject (in my experience; I assume it as a general truth). Remembering words and grammatical rules becomes a whole lot easier when you relate them to each other and the foundation you've built yourself in the beginning. This can mean the difference between learning a language in 2 years, and learning it in 6 months.
The general idea of this article is that knowledge and understanding are different in the sense that isolated knowledge is easy to forget, whereas truly understanding a bit of data by adding it to a greater "network" of information will burn it into your memory. - tanto, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Imagine being able zip through books, documents and papers and not miss a word, taking it all in but in half the time.Sounds good doesn’t it?
http://orangtuamurid.info/blog/2007/04/17/the-real-secrets-of-speed-reading/ - Nichiren, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4I think you're being dugg down for the irony in your comments.
- InferiorWang, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4You can't cheat at typing.
- philomatic, on 02/08/2009, -0/+2Effective technique, but I must warn: paper cuts sting like hell
- drakelord, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4Actually, a lot of Universities I have looked at do their gpa out of 4.3. Most schools that don't simply do not count A+'s as anything, and associate them with normal A's.
If you look at the standard grading rubric, it goes like this.
A - 4.0
A- - 3.7
B+ - 3.3
B - 3.0
B- - 2.7
C+ -2.3
C - 2.0
C- - 1.7
D+ - 1.3
D - 1
D- - 0.7
F - 0
So it'd only make sense that the A+ would be 4.3. - isunktheship, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Yeah... this article is basically saying "don't memorize" I don't see why this is a zenhabit, it's just common sense. Understand the material, don't memorize it.
Unrelated note: I wish digg implemented a method to mark people as flamers, directly limiting their daily post count. - kablaaamo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Seconded. I'm in a premed program, doing a ton better than most of my classmates with less work...and I too called *****. Until the author described (at least partially) how I already studied. If you understand WHY a fact is important, it's a lot easier to remember it, and it's a lot easier to remember it in context. Anyways...
- Pake, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Yeah, that would make more sense for the article. It's not saying to study less, just to understand the material from the ground up rather than just memorizing the top layer.
- emjaymj, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Holistic learning, in this context, really makes sense to me. I believe it's how I've managed to be at the top of most of my classes with really no studying whatsoever. I even once struggled with calculus, but after learning computer programming the next semester, I was able to draw a lot of comparisons between the two and it just made a ton more logical sense to me. Even though I'll admit I forgot certain concepts because I wasn't studying, usually I was able to figure them out on my own anyways because I was able to think of it as more than just random numbers and formulas.
- Nateon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1"Studies have shown that people remember more vividly information that comes to us in an emotionally aroused state."
I'm sorry, nothing about trigonometric functions could ever "emotionally arouse" me no matter what this article says. - Gabberwok, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3According to my music theory teacher back in college, I don't know about incense but pot is supposed to help you with ear training....
- psbpv3o, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2@Stevalford...you are stupid.
- ghettodev, on 10/14/2007, -0/+1I don't think 'grammar' means what you think it means.
- Echo18, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The post has nothing to do with New-Agism. This is basic psychology you'd learn in any Psych 101 class (which I learned in my AP Psychology class in High School).
These are tested and proven methods of better learning. Not "mumbo-jumbo oogie boogie new-age *****"
And, according to Webster's dictionary.
Holistic:
relating to or concerned with wholes or with complete systems rather than with the analysis of, treatment of, or dissection into parts. - Fordi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Not quite all of it is latin. A bunch of it is greek. What is in which never seems to follow any pattern. Meanwhile, neither ever seems to have more than a passing bearing on what a particular body part is for.
- Fordi, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3This article has nothing to do with any of those things.
It's about relating concepts to each other to effectively 'compress' what you're learning and make it easier to get at.
Chances are you already do this. - otros, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2yeah, just dugg down the stupid person who wrote an article which didn't cover all the ***** possibilities of learning. Anything less is just lame.
- Fordi, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I've seen rubrics that have a range between 1.0 and 5.0 - though I can't imagine why. It kind of annoys me; I'm a programmer, and if an array or variable isn't indexed from zero, it just makes working with it - even in my head - all the more difficult.
- Fordi, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2The term 'holistic' is misleading you towards the stupid new-age *****. 'Holistic' in this sense, refers to its proper meaning of interconnectedness. Basically, you learn like a relational database, linking facts together by what they mean to you and to each other (which are also 'you', in a sense). Zen is an important metaphor here for focus, but can be discarded as long as you can study with detachment, concentrating on meaningful relationships between data rather than your specific opinion on them.
I say to discard your opinion on information because it makes it harder to sort through what you know as you age and your opinions change. You can lose entire blocks of knowledge that way. Like if you get out of music, and can't remember how some band-related events happened until you pick up a guitar (a personal memory of mine, but you get the idea).
Overall, it's not some new-agey thing we're talking about here - it's what every 'smart kid' in high school knew instinctively; you can learn a lot more quickly if you recognize how information is related, and break your ideas into abstraqct processes that can apply to many disciplines. The faster you can apply this to a given subject, the faster you can take it up. It's also not important to be accurate in the beginning, as you can refine things as you learn more.
As I said, though, 'holistic' is misleading - most people relate it to stupid crystal and mysticism crap. 'Relational' learning would be a better term - but let the man name it whatever he feels like. Just getting the information out there and making people smarter is good enough for me. - iknoritesrsly, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2This is just about what I do. A couple years ago, I realized that taking notes in class actually hindered my learning, hence, instead of laboring over writing down every last thing the professors were saying, I just stopped taking notes altogether, focused more on simplifying what the prof was saying, and then trying to consciously link whatever was being taught to previous lectures.
Last semester, I didn't even bother buying books. Occasionally I borrowed a book from a friend or the library if I thought there was something not covered well in class, but I made A's with just about no studying at all simply by thinking in this kind of way. - Fozefy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1His is obviously the same system...he just broke it down more.
- svenathon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Don't know why you're being dugg down. I know my ear is much better when I'm high, maybe there's a reason so many musicians smoke so damn much
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