This is an incredibly effective technique to deeply engrain new knowledge. Read a few pages or a chapter or any passage that strikes you as particularly pithy or relevant to your current challenges. Close the book, write out a summary. This will be harder than you think! Doing so forces you to not only remember key concepts but to also tease out the reasoning, the logic path, to process and organize. Terrific reach!
The best way to learn is to teach; teaching yourself counts!
Closing Quotes:
“Being a student is easy. Learning requires actual work.” – William Crawford, 1772-1834
“In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, 1749-1832
“One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.” – Frank Herbert, 1920-1986, Dune
“One hour per day of study in your chosen field is all it takes. One hour/day of study will put you at the top of your field within three years. Within 5 years you’ll be a national authority. In 7 years, you can be one of the best people in the world at what you do.” – Earl Nightingale, 1921-1989
As always, I share what I most want and need to learn. – Nathan S. Collier
Note: Every effort has been made to properly source any 3rd person material. I am, however, a voracious reader. If anyone finds any unattributed material, pls let me know asap and I will be delighted to give credit where credit is due.
“All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832