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- Familiarity is not the same of understand.
- If we did not understand we cannot explain something with our words
- Try to search for patterns, detect the distinction and similarities between the concepts and questions
- Reformulate questions and piece of information is more important than to have extensively knowledge base.
- Learn how to manipulate the Literature Notes and Permanent Notes, reformulate it, choose the right words, try to search for gist/patterns. Which is important, what are the important mental models
- Each piece of information is source for other piece of information, make as many connections as possible, which meaningful context.
- Which aspects are important to write?
- Slip-Box help to create distinctions between concepts and things in general using connections. Use it to answer the questions you have in mind.
- Some ideas/questions can appear in the middle of research/findings of other ideas, you do not need to answer it right at the moment, store it on the Slip-Box.
- Write down the note make you argumentation being coherent and be discussed independently of the author.
- Connection is elaboration (Writing, take notes, thinking about connections)
- Slip-Box long-term memory, while brain takes care of creativity
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If learning is your goal, cramming is an irrational act
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what does this all mean for my own research and the questions I think about in my Slip-Box? This is just another way of asking: Why did the aspects I wrote down catch my interest?
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Learning would be not so much about saving information, like on a hard disk, but about building connections and bridges between pieces of information to circumvent the inhibition mechanism in the right moment. It is about making sure that the right “cues” trigger the right memory, about how we can think strategically to remember the most useful information when we need it.
References
Ahrens, 2017, p82-100