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)

Chapter 3. Read Faster and Retain More

The Right Mindset

It involves explaining and articulating information to establish a baseline of knowledge and blind spots. Blind spots are when we don’t realize what we don’t know.

Small changes in communication—even in the most innocuous comments—can have long-lasting implications for a person’s mindset. This goes for how you communicate with yourself as well.

Elaborative interrogation has something in common with that childlike inquiry, except it relates to more advanced topics that adults are (hopefully) liable to investigate.

Fortunately, no matter how deeply a fixed mindset is ingrained in a person, it doesn’t have to be a permanent condition as they might believe. Mindsets are malleable and can be taught. It turns out old dogs can learn new tricks.

Confidence. At the base of Kruger’s pyramid is the self-conviction that we can learn. There’s no way around this prerequisite, and brain chemistry has something to do with it.

Inspectional reading actually has two mini-stages of its own:

You can set yourself up for lifelong learning.