The Science of Self-Learning: How to Teach Yourself Anything, Learn More in Less Time, and Direct Your Own Education (Learning how to Learn Book 1)

Now that you’ve got all the information you need, it’s time to identify what your sources are, what kind of information they present, and whether it’s good or not. This step could reduce the amount of information you’ll study by 75% or even more.

Specific: clear and definitive Measurable: easy for you to track progress Achievable: within your reach but not too simple Relevant: personally significant to you and your life Time-based: organized to some kind of schedule

1. Gather information. The first step is to retrieve as much data about a topic as you possibly can.

This is the truly important step because it will show exactly what you do and do not understand

you’ll have to be proactive about figuring out what all this new data means to your course of study. You’ll have to do the investigative work to understand the framework and substance of all these bits of knowledge. We call this pulling information, because it means dragging what’s important and creating significance out of the huge mass of info th

Analytical. The third level of reading is the deepest level for consuming a single book or volume of work—it’s full digestion of and interaction with the material at hand.

you need to build confusion endurance. This confusion may come as a result of not knowing where to start, being perplexed at how to attack a problem, having a muddied view of what you’re trying to achieve, wondering what resources are available and relevant to the task, and the like. Confusion endurance is all about being able to stay with a task a

Then, at some point, probably when you least expect it, you’ll hear that first “clink” in your head—and something will finally make sense to you.

The Feynman technique is a specific application of elaborative interrogation. Remember, the goal is not to actually answer the questions; it’s to see what you are unable to answer—that is the information it provides. It has four steps.