Learning is something which we do generally in life multiple times. We do learn lot of things and are interested in learning different things.However everyone has their own way to learn anything .Some are very good and learn things fast and some are a little slow.So this brings us to the question, is learning a skill or is it a virtue ?
I believe that learning fast is just a skill.Most of the people who learn something fast must be following some process by which they make learning anything easier and others.So if you ask me, how do you think one can read something understand it and then able to memorise it for a long time? Well, this is how they probably do it.
After just one reading of anything without any conscious effort of memorising, if we try to recollect what we have read, we get to grasp may be 5-10 % of the actual conept.But now if we try and read with an intent to know what are the main points we have missed, we would tend to grasp things better.
Now, the idea in here is to get something like an image of what ever we are reading, so that we are just placing the points in that mind image.Now for the 2nd time we could surely get a better idea that then earlier reading.So now you have got a rough idea of what the author is trying to say.Now we can make a note of what the key points are in the note are. Now if you can just remember this sequence and understand these points clearly, we can remember anything and also quite easily recollect.Doing something like this is important because you actually remember a lot lesser that what the author is trying to and and since you are trrying to pick up the key points you would remember it better.
Why is it revising in the middle a better way to learn? Here is a story.Two men joined a plantation where their work is to cut off trees and who ever cuts more would get more money.Both started by cutting 10 trees in 8 hours.Now slowy the 2nd person among them even though didnt spend any extra time was able to cut more trees than the 1st one. The 1st one gets motivated to do better but could not get good results like the 2nd one. So once these two guys met and the 1st one enquired about the 2nd one's secret and the 2nd one said this "After successfully cutting a tree I spend some 10 minues in sharpening the axe I have so that my efficiency is better". So we can infer that revising things while we are learning something, gives better results.
I believe that learning fast is just a skill.Most of the people who learn something fast must be following some process by which they make learning anything easier and others.So if you ask me, how do you think one can read something understand it and then able to memorise it for a long time? Well, this is how they probably do it.
After just one reading of anything without any conscious effort of memorising, if we try to recollect what we have read, we get to grasp may be 5-10 % of the actual conept.But now if we try and read with an intent to know what are the main points we have missed, we would tend to grasp things better.
Now, the idea in here is to get something like an image of what ever we are reading, so that we are just placing the points in that mind image.Now for the 2nd time we could surely get a better idea that then earlier reading.So now you have got a rough idea of what the author is trying to say.Now we can make a note of what the key points are in the note are. Now if you can just remember this sequence and understand these points clearly, we can remember anything and also quite easily recollect.Doing something like this is important because you actually remember a lot lesser that what the author is trying to and and since you are trrying to pick up the key points you would remember it better.
Why is it revising in the middle a better way to learn? Here is a story.Two men joined a plantation where their work is to cut off trees and who ever cuts more would get more money.Both started by cutting 10 trees in 8 hours.Now slowy the 2nd person among them even though didnt spend any extra time was able to cut more trees than the 1st one. The 1st one gets motivated to do better but could not get good results like the 2nd one. So once these two guys met and the 1st one enquired about the 2nd one's secret and the 2nd one said this "After successfully cutting a tree I spend some 10 minues in sharpening the axe I have so that my efficiency is better". So we can infer that revising things while we are learning something, gives better results.
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