A random rant about how I don’t like working hard, yet I do it anyway…
Author: chichi
Horror Haiku
A poem
On Familiarity
When getting comfortable is more important than forcing yourself!
Eating Easy
A simple guide on how to eat everyday
A Slow Dancing Start
A Poem
Learning and Emotions
From LEARNING (1.), it’s easy to see the heavy emotional aspect of learning — it’s easy to remember emotional events, hard to remember when stressed and it’s impossible to be purely mechanical with our thinking. It’s nothing close to rational as people like to say. Stress can make you forget things not only when learning……
On Being Curious
Jotting is all about questioning — all about making sure the idea on the paper is worthy of being written down. If anything, questioning is building of creativity, like going to the gym to build muscle. The more questions you ask, the more relations you build between data points (’How is A related to B?’……
Point out the Problem
Also relates to : Asking better questions List out all the things happening in the area you’re working on Question every point to ask what’s going on Do you know what is the reason for that point to exist? List down your problems As many as you can, I’d say at least 20 points, maybe……
Notes and Notetaking
Taking notes while learning is two things — noting down interesting points and free-writing where I’m just writing down what I’ve learnt. Write drunk, edit sober. You can always remove stuff after writing it down, but once forgotten, it’s hard to remember again. I’ve probably deleted 99% of my notes because they were irrelevant later.……
Memory and Creativity
Memory techniques like mnemonics and memory palace help. However, it is important to learn the context and be creative to use the data effectively. Spaced repetition to make memory of a data point more solid. Interleave to reduce connections related to the order of learning (like B comes after A, tell me what comes before……
LEARNING
How to Learn
What can I say?
A Poem
Cruisin’ Blue
Row hard
Dreamy Girls
A Poem
The FIG Method [Part I]
TL;DR: File–Image–Glue is all you need to remember anything!