Scott Young:

What I’d like to advocate in this article is a more creative, spontaneous form of learning than the style you were probably coached for in school. Instead of repeatedly scanning the same information for minimal benefit, invest your time learning in creating connections with the information you are learning. Not only is it a more natural way to learn, it isn’t painfully boring like most memorization tasks are.

I was using one of the methods on this list, without even knowing it: #5. I have always found that trying to teach the information to someone else is the most effective way for me to learn, perhaps that is why I blog about productivity.

via Think Simple Now.

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