Hi hello wow, this is Xiang Nuan.
In the blink of an eye, it has come to the last month of the year, and there is one thing that everyone must not be able to bypass, that is, review.
As a writer, I've taken a lot of notes and done a lot of reviews, but it wasn't until this year that I really learned to take notes and do reviews.
Next, I want to share with you the detours I have taken, I hope it will inspire you.
When I was in school, every time I took a big exam, I would sort out the subject knowledge and make a mind map, so that the content of the semester could be understoodThis method is really useful for subjects that require memorization and memorizationI've also got good results with this method.
After leaving school, I often read books and like to make mind maps to sort out the knowledge points, and I feel that only in this way can I be regarded as having read this book, which is also a good student thinking left over from my student days.
But slowly, I found that a lot of the books I read didn't really work. Because without the notes, there are very few things that can really be remembered.
Why is this so?
Because I'm confusing some concepts, what I'm doing is, at best"Summary" and "Summary".instead of "notes" and "reviews".
I summarize the knowledge points and summarize the key pointsBut he didn't record his thoughts and feelings, let alone connect with his own life scenes.
Even nowadays, many people's methods are simpler and crude, directly copying and pasting, or putting them into favorites with one click. But your so-called learning and recording have not really become your own knowledge, and most of them are lying there "eating ashes".
The most important thing is not to memorize knowledge, but to use it, to combine it with your actual situation and experience, and really use it for your own use.
If you've ever taken notes like I do, ask yourself:
What information is stored in your notes, and what knowledge is recorded?
What did you remember a week ago, a month, half a year ago?Isn't it hard to think about it?
The American cognitive scientists Björk and his wife proposed it".Theory of necessary difficulty”。What it means is that there are two basic mechanisms of our human memory:Storage and extraction
In the past, people used to think that the faster you remember, the better you learn. But".Theory of necessary difficultyHowever, he said: "Storage is negatively correlated with extraction." ”
That is, the easier it is to store a memory, the more difficult it is to retrieve it;On the contrary,If you're struggling to deposit, it's easier to extract knowledge.
For example, when you are in a notebook, you are no longer simply collecting, saving, crossing, copying, and pasting links with one click, because you have not made any effort to understand the meaning, nor have you connected with past knowledge, so that when you extract it, you can't remember it at all, let alone use it.
Every time before recording, I have to ask myself in turn: Why do I think this thing is good?Why do I think this stuff is wonderful?
Resolutely don't let your mind become someone else's racetrack.
So, how exactly should you take notes?
It can be proposed by the German sociologist Niklas Luhmann".Card note-taking
In the process of reading and learning, do not record the whole article, but break it down into one knowledge point after another.
Each knowledge point is recorded with a card, and each card records its own views and ideas, and labels are marked.
Specifically, it is".Take notes in your own wordsWhen taking notes, add your own inspiration or experience, even if it's just a sentence or two.
Don't underestimate this action, it can help you to make other people's knowledge truly your own, and then use it for you when the right time comes.
So, how do you check whether your notes and reviews are effective?
We can try to use the "Feynman Method".
To put it simply, it's about telling others what you've learned, which is a teaching approach to learning, inspired by Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman.
For example, now, I am openly expressing what I have learned through writing, which is also a test of my learning effect, and if I find that I can't express it clearly, I will go back and learn again.
I hope that today's article can provide a little inspiration for all lifelong learners