Valedictorian secrets III
In today's economy, Darwinian rules of competition are revised: Only the fastest learners survive.
In other words, your LQ matters much more than your IQ. Your Learning Quotient depends chiefly on your ability to learn fast, absorb and assimilate new success principles, and apply them accurately in the relevant situations where they can be brought to bear on the issues or problems at hand.
IQ is about how smart you are. LQ is about how smart you are about getting smarter.
This is why I believe that, whether we like it or not, we have to go beyond just learning. We have to learn HOW to learn.
And this can be quite technical. The study secrets I share below may sound simple, but in fact, they embody a vast amount of scientific research (in neurology, psychology, etc.) and universal principles that can simply not fail.
They only "fail" to produce results when the person fails to apply them diligently and consistently.
Aristotle said that one should master principles, for he can then create any method to suit him or the situation at hand. But if a person becomes slave to a method, then he will be at the mercy of that method.
In a similar vein, the following study secrets should be considered as "principles" and be adapted in your own situation. They are not how-to recipes for success.
As usual, please feel free to email me if you have questions.
In other words, your LQ matters much more than your IQ. Your Learning Quotient depends chiefly on your ability to learn fast, absorb and assimilate new success principles, and apply them accurately in the relevant situations where they can be brought to bear on the issues or problems at hand.
IQ is about how smart you are. LQ is about how smart you are about getting smarter.
This is why I believe that, whether we like it or not, we have to go beyond just learning. We have to learn HOW to learn.
And this can be quite technical. The study secrets I share below may sound simple, but in fact, they embody a vast amount of scientific research (in neurology, psychology, etc.) and universal principles that can simply not fail.
They only "fail" to produce results when the person fails to apply them diligently and consistently.
Aristotle said that one should master principles, for he can then create any method to suit him or the situation at hand. But if a person becomes slave to a method, then he will be at the mercy of that method.
In a similar vein, the following study secrets should be considered as "principles" and be adapted in your own situation. They are not how-to recipes for success.
As usual, please feel free to email me if you have questions.
- Compete with the teacher, not with other students. If you compete with the teacher, then the best outcome is a "tie." You cannot win because the maximum score you can get in any course is 100%. Few students can outshine their masters (unless you are Wittgenstein, whose genius was immediately evident to his teacher Bertrand Russell).
How do you compete against the teacher? By predicting every possible twist and trap that the teacher can "design" as he formulates a problem to be solved in an exam. By also having a time management strategy when you take the exam, given the fact that many teachers would design a question to be time-consuming so as to lure students into "wasting" time which then prevents them from having enough time to answer all the questions (finance exams or any math exam). - Read slowly a number of books on speed reading. It's well worth the investment in time. Speed reading workshops and seminars are also available.
- Master memorization techniques by Harry Lorraine. He sells audiotapes etc. online but I think you only need the little book he wrote on memory.
- Use post-it notes to mark key sections of a book or textbook, and write your own comments on those stickers.
- Little by little, does the trick. If you are doing a case analysis, take every single fact mentioned in the case, and infer as many strategically useful information as possible from that single fact. This will systematically enable you to design solutions or recommendations that are highly faithful to the information presented in the case (i.e. your solutions/recommendations will be more realistic).
- Understand the principle of "neural-access hierarchy or prioritization through successive query designs." Man, this principle is too complicated, I will write it in an upcoming post (it's Friday night, my brain is dead!).
posted by Super Peter at 7:04 PM
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