Focus on improving your meta-learning capabilities before and during your learning project

The more meta-learning projects you do, the more general meta-learning skills you will master

Two major motivations

Write down three columns on a piece of paper: concepts, facts, and procedures, and then brainstorm. If it’s not correct, you can adjust it at any time.

Concept: something to understand

Facts: things to remember

Procedure: Something that takes practice

Use meta-learning analysis to draw learning maps

Two methods

You should devote approximately 10% of your expected study time to research before your studies begin

Before you start, you don’t know how quickly your learning project will progress and what obstacles you may encounter, so reassessment is a necessary step in the learning process.

Spend some time with each method and quickly assess the relative value of the two methods

The more time you invest in an activity, the less and less you gain as you get closer to the ideal approach

At some point, you have a desire within you that drives you to do something else, or an aversion that prevents you from doing the task at hand, or both.

Being aware that you are procrastinating is the first step to avoiding it

Which is stronger, the desire not to do the current task, or the desire to do something else?

The 5-minute rule: Tell yourself that you only need to try this task for 5 minutes before stopping or doing something else.

Pomodoro technique: focus for 25 minutes, rest for 5 minutes

Use your calendar: block out a specific time in your calendar in advance to complete the project

Flow is a pleasant state between boredom and ease when a task is neither too difficult nor too easy

The self-awareness missing from flow is so necessary in super learning and deliberate practice

Don’t resist flow. There’s no need to feel guilty if you’re not in flow.

You can retain more content by arranging learning content to be practiced at different times than by squeezing learning content together.

A study period of 50 minutes to an hour is appropriate, with a few minutes of rest after each hour. You can also adjust the plan that best suits you according to your needs.

Interference source

Firstly, if your studies are directly related to the skill area you ultimately want to apply, then the need for long-distance transfer will be much less.

Secondly, direct learning also helps transfer knowledge to new learning environments.

So when we learn new things, we should strive to relate them directly to the scenarios in which we are going to use them. Building knowledge based on real-world environments is much better than traditional strategies

Learn by doing: Whenever possible, spend most of your learning time working on the things you want to do better, and direct learning will take care of itself. If this is not possible, you will need to create a project or environment to test the skill.

A deeper understanding of a subject will allow us to be more flexible in moving it in the future

The process of immersing yourself in a target environment in which you can practice your skills

Simulation environments also work when direct learning is not possible

Increase the difficulty of the challenge

Figure out where and how the skill will be used

First make a hypothesis about the factors that hinder you, keep training, and strive to solve it, and then use the method of direct learning and repeated training. Whether it is right or wrong, you can get feedback quickly.

Find ways to better train sub-skills

Training 1: Time Cutoff

Training 2: Cognitive Component

Training 3: Imitation

Training 4: Magnifying glass method

Training 5: Prerequisites

Try to retrieve information in your head without looking at the text

The act of trying to recall knowledge from memory is a powerful learning tool in itself, not just direct practice or feedback

Retrieval practice – try to recall facts and concepts from your brain’s memory

The short-term gains of passive learning do not translate into the long-term memory required for real learning

Take the test again in a few days. Retrieval practice is far better than passive review.

As long as the retrieval behavior is in the right direction, the more difficult the retrieval will be, the better the learning effect will be.

It's more efficient to increase the difficulty and choose to self-test before you're "ready"

If it is too difficult, it is not advisable, because you have no way to search if you have no knowledge reserves at all.

It is better to postpone the first test than to take the test immediately after studying

The time interval should be long enough so that you can remember the knowledge you retrieved deeply, but not so long that you can’t remember anything at all.

forward testing effect

The direct method forces you to search for problems that often occur during use, thereby strengthening the training of related skills.

Strategy 1: Memory Card

Strategy 2: Free recall

Strategy 3: Question Set

Strategy 4: Create your own challenges

Strategy 5: Close Book Learning

This type of feedback tells you how you are doing overall, but it does not tell you what you did well or poorly.

Results feedback is the easiest to get, and it can be helpful even if it doesn’t pinpoint areas where you need to improve.

This feedback tells you what you did wrong, but it doesn’t necessarily tell you how to correct it

This feedback usually comes from your direct interaction with the environment

The best feedback is corrective feedback. This kind of feedback not only tells you what you did wrong, but also how to correct it. This kind of feedback is usually only available through a coach, mentor or teacher

Try to avoid situations that always make you feel good (or bad) about your appearance

An important form of metafeedback is learning speed

A second way to apply metafeedback is to compare two different learning methods

The act of remembering is not a passive process. When recalling facts, events, or knowledge, we engage in a creative reconstruction process

Dividing your study time into small chunks and inserting gaps may cause you to perform poorly in the short term (because of the opportunity for forgetting during the intervals), but you will perform better in the long run.

Spaced-Repetition Learning System (SRS)

Procedural skills, such as you always remember how to ride a bike, are less likely to be forgotten than knowledge that requires explicit recall to retrieve

Core exercises, continually practicing and perfecting the core parts of a skill

Advanced practice, that is, improving a set of skills by one level

Mnemonics can serve as a bridge to remembering difficult information, but they are usually not the final step in building a lasting memory

1. Write the concept or question you want to understand at the top of a piece of paper

2. In the space below, explain the idea as if you had to convince others of the idea.

3. When you get stuck, that is, when you understand that you cannot provide a clear answer, turn to your books, notes, teachers, or reference materials to find the answer.

Something you don't understand at all

Problems you can't seem to solve

Expand your intuition

Learning methods, materials and resources

Make a fixed schedule

Short-term investments are easier to stick to

High-intensity projects lasting a month with few interruptions

Create a positive feedback loop

Self-discipline, motivation and commitment must come from the children themselves