In such an era of lifelong learning, learning ability has become the most important ability in this era. If I want to ask you how to improve your learning ability, do you have an answer?
Learning ability has three core elements.
The study of all knowledge and skills requires learners to stay focused. The degree of concentration determines the quality and depth of learning. Without concentration, time becomes garbage. No matter how much time it takes, it is difficult to get more results. Therefore, concentration is the core basic ability of 1 learning. Is the first ability to be acquired.
All learners need to have a certain memory ability, and the stronger the memory ability, the better. However, some people hold objections. They think that since there are search engines and Google, there is no need to remember many things in their minds. When necessary, just search online. So they will think that a person only needs to have thinking ability. Is that really the case? We can think about it, where does our thinking ability come from? From the brain, of course. Thinking needs materials, and these thinking materials come from our memory. How can we think if there is nothing in our brain? What do we use to think? So we insist on the need of memory ability, not to remember more things, but to remember the materials we use to think. Memory ability is not so much for memory as for thinking. The more you remember, the richer the material for thinking and the stronger your creativity.
All learners need to acquire knowledge through reading. Therefore, the third core ability of learning ability is reading. How to improve reading speed? How to improve reading comprehension? Reading ability is a skill that people in our time must master.
Through these three core abilities: concentration, memory and fast reading. We can build our super learning platform, take these three core competencies as three legs, and build our core competitiveness in learning.
So is there a book that can tell us how to improve these three abilities and build a platform for efficient learning ability? . Rod Bremer built such a fast learning system for us through a book How to Become top student.
The English name of this book is Menu: A Guide to the Ultimate Learning Method. The direct translation should be the guide to super learning methods. The author designed the name of his method on his website with the initials of three words: USM. Let's use USM to refer to this method.
How to become a top student has three very important characteristics.
The first characteristic. The design of this book is very scientific.
1 Part focuses on concentration, part on memory and part on reading ability. The order of the three parts is very important. First of all, in the process of learning, you must pay attention to continuous concentration in order to improve your learning effect. In other words, concentration is the ability to solve first. When the concentration is completed, the next step is to repair the memory. The effect of memory actually needs to be supported by concentration. The author ranks memory in the second place. On the basis of concentration, memory can become more effective. The author ranks the ability of high-speed reading in the third place, because the speed of reading should be based on attention and memory. With the support of concentration, your reading ability can be more efficient, and with the support of memory, your reading ability can be more effective. Let's think about why, after reading a book, many people ask him to tell you what is written in the book, and he will only tell you: this book is great. Why can't you say more? It's because he didn't remember it at all, that is, there is something wrong with his memory, or that his memory has not been trained. Maybe he has a problem with his concentration. Then the author provides us with such a sequence, concentration, memory and high-speed reading ability. According to the scientific order, it provides us with three supporting points to build your learning ability. Moreover, when practicing, you must also train in the order of concentration, memory and high-speed reading ability.
With the three support points of concentration, memory and high-speed reading ability. You need to use these three support points to build our platform for efficient learning. In the fourth part, the author built such a platform for us. So this book is very logical in order.
In addition, this book is explaining how to improve our attention, how to improve our memory and how to improve our ability to read quickly. It provides us with detailed basis. The author tells us the theoretical basis of his views. At the end of the book, he provides a large number of reference materials and reference books. This also reflects the author's rigorous scientific attitude.
The second feature of this book is operability.
You can follow the instructions in this book and train your concentration, your memory and your fast reading ability step by step. The author provides us learners with very detailed practice steps. How to practice? When do you practice? How long will it take to practice? What problems may be encountered in practice? How to solve these problems? He even listed a practice plan for learners. So this book can be used as a teaching material for study and practice. This is the second feature of this book.
The third feature of this book is that it integrates concentration, memory and fast reading ability into an efficient learning system.
The name of the system that the author built for us is USM. That's what the author calls a super learning system. You can learn more about this system on the author's website (www. Ultimate Udymethod.com).
In this way, the author has established a closed and complete efficient learning system. If you want to learn a knowledge quickly. You can use the method in this book, from step 1 to step 2, step 3 and finally step 4. Gradually establish your own learning system.
Focus and meditation.
After more than 30 years of research and practice, the author summed up a set of practice methods to improve concentration through meditation. We all know that meditation can release stress and relieve anxiety. Meditation can also improve concentration. As we know, there is a mindfulness meditation center in Oxford University and a mindfulness meditation center in UCLA. The University of Wisconsin-Madison also has a mindfulness meditation center. We also know that. Google provides a place for meditation practitioners in the company. IBM, including many Fortune 500 companies in many countries, has meditation practice places. These places, we are usually places to help employees release stress. However, meditation can also improve the effect of attention, which has been confirmed and summarized by Richard Davison of the University of Wisconsin for more than 30 years. Meditation can improve concentration.
We know that Steve Jobs of Apple is also a meditator. So on the Apple phone, there is a meditation program built in. It's not a coincidence. The value of meditation is being recognized by more and more people. Therefore, in his 1 section, the author proposes to obviously improve the concentration and provides a detailed practice path.
About training memory
The method adopted by the author is very similar to that adopted by international memory experts, such as visual memory, such as building a temple of memory, building a pile of memory, and establishing the connection between old and new things. These methods have also been adopted by memory masters all over the world. The author subdivides these methods. Design the steps well and turn them into skills that learners can master step by step through learning.
The part about fast reading ability
People have different views on developing reading ability. Some people think that we should read word for word, while others think that we can skim, browse and read quickly. So which one is correct? In fact, the person who puts forward word-for-word reading does not ask you to read word-for-word while reading. Because the smallest unit of meaning is usually a word rather than a word, word-for-word reading is not very efficient, but it will affect understanding. What constitutes a complete semantic unit is often a sentence. So you can better understand the meaning of the article by taking sentences as a unit. But in many articles, some sentences only play a transitional role. So, if you read every sentence, it doesn't make much sense. The so-called word-for-word reading is a way of reading that allows you to understand the meaning of the article, which cannot be mechanically understood as word-for-word reading. Some people suggest that reading should be skimming, browsing and speed reading. It is not suitable for all occasions. If you don't understand the concept, skimming and express delivery are meaningless. Skimming and speed reading are methods of focusing on reading. Focus on keywords and key concepts. The purpose of browsing is to find what you are interested in and what you think is important. The purpose of skimming is to let you quickly understand the content of a paragraph. Speed reading can only be done on the premise of skimming. If you don't have a general understanding of the paragraphs and chapters of this article. Speed reading is very difficult and can only waste time. Whether skimming, speed reading or browsing, you need the support of concentration and memory. Most of these methods provided by the author will be mentioned if you buy a special speed reading, but the difference is that this book makes these methods into skills one by one and can be mastered through repeated training. This is the genius of the author. This is also the value of this book.
The author also mentioned a kind of ability in this book. If you don't have this ability, you can't cultivate your concentration, memory and reading speed. This ability is called self-discipline. If a person can't exercise self-discipline, then buy this book, read it and put it aside after reading it. If you want to train yourself step by step according to the requirements of the author and train yourself according to the methods in the book, it is difficult to do it without a certain degree of self-discipline. The author repeatedly emphasizes the persistence of the training process. In other words, these trainings cannot be completed in one day, one month or one year. It takes a continuous practice process to master it and make you a real effective learning master.
In fact, this book lacks a very important part, that is, physical problems. If a person is in a poor mental state, depressed and lacks sleep every day, then he will certainly not be an effective master of learning. Interestingly, although the author did not write this part in the book, he mentioned it in detail on his own website. He wrote 10 ways to make your brain more energetic and better remembered on the website, namely:
You can learn more about this book by visiting the author's website.
At the end of the book, the author gave us a surprise. The surprise is: improve your computing power. The author of this book graduated from London School of Economics and Political Science. He specializes in econometrics and mathematical economics. This major requires high mathematics, and has worked in the financial industry for 15 years, mainly developing mathematical models. So in the last part of the book, he devoted a chapter to improve his math ability and make the book more three-dimensional. Of all the books I have read to improve my learning ability, almost none teach how to improve my computing ability. The most important reason why the author put this part in the book is that mathematical ability is the best way to exercise the brain. And the author happens to be good at this job and has the ability in this field. So this chapter naturally became a happy ending of this book.
If you want to be top student, you can try to exercise yourself through the route provided by this book. However, as the author said, if you have no self-discipline and can't persist, you may see the excitement pass.
I wish you become a real scholar through this book.