/lit/ - Literature

>>19495140
>my most succesful learning experiences happened when I had to research the topic well enough to write about it/explain it to someone else
you can attempt to explain it to a piece of paper by writing it down in one paragraph, when you hesitate or don't know what to write exactly you've identified a whole in your understanding that you need to revisit the material to fill
it's the feynman method, basically like teaching it to someone else but easier and quicker

>>19495148
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>>19495140
I generally have a question I'm going in with. Pretty much everything I do is part of my project. I look for analogies.
I've found the absolute best way to retain info is to summarize it then try to use it in a debate because I get to work it out and justify it.

I suppose w fiction I may lampoon it or write a flash fiction w some elements I enjoyed? I haven't tried that yet tho.

>>19495140
You want to write down the information you want to retain and then retrieve it in a few days time. You can stagger the different things you are learning each day with this process. Write it down. Try to write it down again from memory the next day but more briefly. If you get stuck, review the previous days writing. You want to give your brain the bare minimum to be able to recognise something it has already taken in and then recall it. Do this a few times and you'll encode the information successfully. Writing stuff down once is not learning it.
It's also a good idea to scribble illustrations and diagrams sporadically through your notes. It uses a different part of the brain to reinforce what you've written (or something like that, not sure, but it does work). My understanding is that explaining it to someone else is similar to the drawings in that you're approaching the information in a second, slightly different context.
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>>19495850
On the debating bit I've found I'll get around 3 insights each study session that are worth a damn and generally one good one at least when I'm studying normally and not finding books or figuring out what to study because I picked the wrong book or thing to study.
Anyways whichever insight would seem to have some fundamental truth. Generally I try to use it on the fly but analogizing it into some political topic can help since ppl always want to debate that. It gets easier especially the more fundamental it is.

>>19495140
This is what I do to build on knowledge I've learnt. I don't know if this will make sense without variables so lets say you are trying to retain statement X and you have already retained statement Y which is something related to X.

Normally I try to put X in simple terms so someone dumber than me can understand. Then I try to find relationships between X and Y. So to recall X, I just have to recall Y, which I have already retained, and use problem solving skills to find the relationship between X and Y (this would be easier than normal because you put X into similar terms and the effort of creating that connection makes your memory better), then I follow that relationship till I recall X. This for some reason improves my retention even thought it looks like its good for memeory. With enough practise you'll be able to do this in your head. It might not work because I'm doing probably doing easier work than tho.

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