Lesson 2: The Three Questions for Effective Meta-Learning

People who learn to extract the key ideas from new material and organize them into a mental model and connect that model to prior knowledge show an advantage in learning complex mastery.

Here are four criteria I suggest to help you decide exactly which nuggets of knowledge are worth keeping:

learning about how knowledge is structured and acquired within this subject; in other words, learning how to learn it.

Once you’ve gotten a handle on why you’re learning, you can start looking at how the knowledge in your subject is structured. A good way to do this is to write down on a sheet of paper three columns with the headings “Concepts,” “Facts,” and “Procedures.” Then brainstorm all the things you’ll need to learn. It doesn’t matter if the list is perfectl