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Make it Stick + How to Learn - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Recall the main point of what you’ve just read.
      - Create summary sheets without looking at the material.
      - Explain it to someone else.
      - Answer questions at the end of a book chapter.
      - How much we remember : Link
      - When you read a text or study lecture notes, pause periodically to ask yourself questions like these, without looking in the text: What are the key ideas? What terms or ideas are new to me?
    - - When you’re practicing to solve math or science problems, make sure you’re not only doing one problem type that uses the same solution as the previous numbers.
    - - Spaced practice means studying information more than once but leaving considerable time between
        practice sessions
      - In effect, you’re “reloading” it from long- term memory. This effort to reconstruct the learning makes the important ideas more salient and memorable and connects them more securely to other knowledge and to more recent learning
- - - - • Focus on effort, not the end result
      - • Focus on the process, not on achievement
      - • Believe they can improve – even in their weak subjects – as long as they put in the time and hard work
      - • Embrace challenges
      - • Define success as pushing themselves to learn something new, not as getting straight A’s
  - - - • When you first understand something, a faint neural pattern is created. But as you practice further you will deepen a neural model.
      - • When you are learning, you want to study something intensely and focused and then take a break. During the break, your brain will be in a diffused mode, and your “neural mortar will be able to dry”. Similar to physical exercise the growth takes place during the rest periods.
      - • Scientists believe we have two major memory systems, Long-term memory, and Working Memory, you can bring long-term memories into your working memory so you can think about it.
      - • Working memory is the part of memory that controls what you are immediately working on and processing in your mind.
      - • Researchers now widely believe working memory only holds four chunks of information. We automatically group information into chunks, so it seems larger that it is. Working memory can be considered like a blackboard.
      - • This is why your may repeat a memory to help remember it to stop other items invading the four chunks you have available.
      - Research has shown that trying to learn something by repeating it several times in an evening it will not be nearly as efficient as doing it less time but over multiple days.
    - - Create meaningful groups and abbreviations.
      - To remember numbers, associate them to memorable events.
      - Create mnemonic phrases from first letters of the words you want to remember.
      - Memory Palace Technique: Use a familiar place (like the blueprint of your house) and associate visual images of things you want to remember with physical places.