Your only options when you encounter a problem

Options:
1.          Fix-it
2.          Suck-it-up
3.          Or Move-on

... but never complain about it!

Students and learners: RULES OF GOOD STUDYING

MORE RULES OF GOOD STUDYING

Explain to me like I'm 5!

Whenever you are struggling with a concept use explanatory questioning and simple analogies. Using an analogy really helps, like saying that the flow of electricity is like the flow of water.

Don’t just think your explanation - say it out loud or put it in writing. The additional effort of speaking and writing allows you to more deeply encode (that is, convert into neural memory structures) what you are learning.

Use recall. 

After you read a page, look away and recall the main ideas. Highlight very little, and never highlight anything you haven’t put in your mind first by recalling. 

Try recalling main ideas when you are walking to class or in a different room from where you originally learned it. An ability to recall - to generate the ideas from inside yourself - is one of the key indicators of good learning.

Students and learners: MORE RULES OF GOOD STUDYING

 

MORE RULES OF GOOD STUDYING

One of the first steps toward gaining expertise in your work is to create conceptual chunks — mental leaps that unite scattered bits of information through meaning. 

An example is driving a car and it involves the ability to creatively mix together various mini-chunks and chunks in your eye, hand, foot skills as well as technical knowledge of the car. 

Chunk your problems. 
Chunking is understanding and practicing with a problem solution so that it can all come to mind in a flash. After you solve a problem, rehearse it. Make sure you can solve it cold - every step.

 Or pretend it’s a song and learn to play it over and over again in your mind, so the information combines into one smooth chunk you can pull up whenever you want.

What is mindful studying?

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  THE COMPLETE study COURSE - A MINDFUL APPROACH

  Mindful studying refers to the quality of being conscious of how you learn. 

1. Although you keep in mind where you have come from and contrast that with the dream of where your studies will take you; 

2. you achieve a mental state by focusing your awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting your feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations.

  This includes noticing, acknowledging and changing behaviours that do not serve you, like

thinking you can learn deeply when you are being constantly distracted. 
Every tiny pull toward an instant message or conversation means you have less brain power to devote to learning. Every tug of interrupted attention pulls out tiny neural roots before they can grow.

 

      And another is going to bed too late. 

Your brain pieces together problem-solving techniques when you sleep, and it also practices and repeats whatever you put in mind before you go to sleep. Prolonged fatigue allows toxins to build up in the brain that disrupt the neural connections you need to think quickly and well. If you don’t get a good sleep before a test, NOTHING ELSE YOU HAVE DONE WILL MATTER.