Xueba does not have a memory that is different from ordinary people, but just learns knowledge more skillfully than normal people

June 23, 2022 <br class="smart">Today's reading is to teach readers how to study effectively. The author is a young man born in 1996 who was fortunate enough to enter Tokyo after retaking the exam in just 2 years from low grades. A first-class university such as a university must rely on specific skills.
The author proposes from the very beginning that people who are smart at reading and those who have been admitted to first-class universities are not different from ordinary people in terms of memory, on the contrary, they are even worse than ordinary people, but they have the "ability" to recite the required topics, knowledge, including recent 4-5 thousand English words, more than a thousand mathematical formulas, etc. The reason is that they have an effective way of thinking about learning.

"Dongdasheng" generally uses "everyday insight" to make learning more interesting and life-like, and uses the content of learning into daily life all the time, for example: listening to English lectures on the bus, reading newspapers It is precisely because of the training of "everyday insight" that it is easier for them to remember information. For example, when we see the English word Unite, for them, it can be imagined as the United states of america (United States). ), may be able to better understand the meaning of the characters, that is, the interpretation of "zhonghe".

In addition, the author also stated that smart people are very good at “accommodating”, that is, they can limit the information that needs to be remembered to a minimum, that is, we can say that we can find the place of “relevance”.
The author also uses the English word Unite as a metaphor. Unite can be imagined as united states of america (USA), the United States, and the Uni solution can also be regarded as "single". When different single individuals are merged together, it can become Unite , and (USA) represents the merger of many federations, and Uniform represents "uniform clothes", which means uniform, and Unique can also mean "unique". As long as we learn a Uni, we can derive With different characters, you will be able to learn first, understand second, understand third or more efficiently.

Furthermore, "Dongdasheng" will use the method of exploring the reasons to find out the theoretical reasons for things, such as mathematical theories, trigonometric functions, Sin, Cos, Tan, which made it very painful for us as students at the time to memorize them. However, "Dong Dasheng" believes that these formulas can be easily "naturally remembered", as long as we understand the theory and "cause" behind them.

When we understand the reason, we will naturally be able to have a more complete form of a story to understand the "fruit" we need to learn now, and it will also help us remember the entire relationship and principle. For example: if we only know the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin Emphasizing literature over martial arts made the Song Dynasty more centralized, making it difficult for them to fight against the people of the Jin Dynasty from the Northern Song Dynasty to the Southern Song Dynasty. What we need is to know why Zhao Kuangyin needs to "release the military power with a glass of wine" and concentrate the military power on the central body. This is because he used the mutiny to win the throne and succeeded in "adding the yellow robe to the body", so Zhao Kuangyin was afraid that history would repeat itself, so he decided to centralize power. The center, the origin of emphasizing literature over martial arts. This kind of context naturally allows readers to study, and when they read the policies of the Song Dynasty, they can use the "reason" to understand the "ins and outs of things", and it is easy to "remember a lot of information in one breath."

Then, the author divides the thinking of learning into the concept of "finding the upper reaches", that is, everything has a source, similar to the "reason" above, but this focus is on " making difficult problems concise and to the point" to facilitate explanations For example, before reading a book, "Dong Dasheng" must understand the author's background, experience, knowledge, etc. The purpose is to think about the "beginning" of things, which will let us know the author's reason for writing, motivation, and also I can read the preface of the author's book, so that I can better understand the author's mentality. As the so-called heavy rain upstream, the water downstream will also become turbid, this is a related concept.
After we understand "upstream", we must use "summary" to connect upstream and downstream information. Because of the possibility of upstream, there will be different "downstream" branches, as long as we can focus on the "summary" in the book ( Most of it is in the epilogue of the book, etc. It is easy to tell others the main point of the book, it seems that we have the ability to summarize, let "everyone understand" what you know. This will also make us more Understanding the content of the book is also a skill that "Tokyo University students" are very good at "organizing information".

Lastly, I love the remarks in one of the passages of this book. (Copy directly from the book)
"Now the society has begun to advocate "active learning", because it will be easier to remember the content of learning, instead of traditional passive learning, forcing children, students or adults to learn, recite, etc. Passive methods will only make knowledge difficult to stop on the head. This is a great progress, but the funny thing is that learning itself should be "active", why add the word "active"?
A few centuries ago, learning itself was an interesting thing, comparable to the entertainment of watching TV series and watching movies, as the so-called book one world, one book one journey. "As long as we can bring learning into our daily life and think more about the reasons behind it, this will also reduce the load on our brains. We don't have to understand a lot of things, but different applications of the same knowledge. Of course, learning new things will be very efficient quickly. .
As the author said: Smart people see the world with high acuity. They are like high-performance cameras that allow them to learn from everything around them.

PS: The above "Dongdasheng" is regarded by justice as the meaning and symbol of "smart people" generally considered by Japan.

Credit: <Special Training Course on Strong Thinking for Dongda Students>