save the way to efficient learning

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What

Save the way to efficient learning.

Why

Save the way to efficient learning based on my self-reflective learning experience which has allowed me to gather wide theoretical and somewhat practical skill in different areas.

How

A way to learn efficiently

When learning new things, a lot of information needs to be accepted as is and simply memorized. the process of memorization is tedious and reading same content over and over again until memorized won't work, so the question is, how?

My family and I needed to move to the new house in summer. I remember feeling astonishment looking at the three step stairs to climb to the door. The owners opened the door and showed us room to the left and right with a bathroom in front of us. All of that left a huge impression on me that I still remember it to this day. Day after day as I was comming back from the school, I had the same feeling about the stairs, doors, and entering the house. A month later and the sensation was greatly reduced, I got used to the door, stairs, my view of the stairs and house has changed, but they looked the same as before. The only thing that has changed was that I got used to the new place.

How does that work for studying? Imagine a book as a house. Visit pages of the book as you feel like, no order, nothing. The book is terrifying and leaves great sensation. However, reading one page occasionally and taking the book in to the hands over and over again doesn't make a book different, but the reader. The readers mind simply gets used to picking up the same book over and over again. How does that affect learning? As readers accomodation to the book improves, the way the mind sees it changes. The contents of the book do not change, but the shape of mind does. The same concept applies to each chapter of the book. Reading a new chapter may leave the reader in a sensation of discomfort, unfamiliarity, confusion, disoerientation or more. However if the reader removes the idea that the initial reading has to yield results and remember details, the story changes. Looking at the pages while reading the content mindlessly may not necessarily create memories. However it creates accomodation which is a fertile ground for creation of meaning. The more often reader repeats the process of looking, reading, looking, holding and other actions, the greater the effect becomes.

Our attention is scarce and we can't keep reading one book forever... Hence, read many in order which does not even matter. It doesn't need to yield any knowledge either, simply read them. None of us can eat only bread for days, weeks, months... We can, but it is not fun. Since we eat various types of food, we can read various types of books.

The next step once the familiarity settles in is practice. Once we are comfortable with what book has to offer and we memorized contents, it is time to acquire the skill. Since we have many ideas of the contents of the book, but we don't know to apply them, take one at a time. Think of how to use it and use the contents of the book for that chapter to solve it.

Through the repeated process of existing with the book and its content and familiarity to discard discomfort, followed by practice through usage of the content of the book as a solution to the ideas of problems that we have at that point, we can achieve greatness. In such a way every book is conquerable and memorizable. The great benefits of these approaches is that theoretical knowledge will be much wider than practical skill. That is because the skill is highly specialized and requires constant practice and effort to shape to apply without thinking. However the theoretical knowledge helps us know what to practice, the book yields the how and solutions, and all of that begins with the theoretical knowledge which is supposed to produce ideas that initialize the learning processes.

Additional information

After thinking about what makes learning so efficient I came up with an exhilarating idea that wraps together all of the ideas I have come up with so far.