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)

self-education carries a few potential advantages that don’t necessarily arise in the scope of traditional education. They can be of great benefit—not just for your personal intelligence and self-esteem, but for “real-world” scenarios as well.

Think about the difference if you could add even 100 words more per minute. You would be able to finish a book 25–33% faster. You would be able to spend more time on what matters—analyzing and thinking about the information as opposed to absorbing it.

After our emotional centers are done processing new info, the next brain part to receive the data is the front brain, or the prefrontal cortex.

In elaborative interrogation, the learner inquires about how and why certain concepts work. Nothing is safe from this inquiry. They go through their study materials to determine the answers and try to find connections between all the ideas they’re learning about.

If you understand the governing principles around something, the facts follow organically.

If someone reads at around a thousand words per minute (entirely possible and trainable), there is no way they could hear the words in their heads while trying to process them. Instead, they simply see the word and their brains extract the meaning of what was written. It’s about processing the meaning without speaking the words out loud—this is the

American educator Francis P. Robinson developed a method meant to help students really get the most comprehension from the texts they’re assigned—and,

Elementary. You’re already past this level—this is, essentially, learning to read.

Asking Questions and Pulling Information