With books, I put a piece of loose leaf in the table of contents. I write the name of the trick and a description of the effect as I read them. If it seems like something I’d do, a more detailed description (methodologies, props, etc) goes in the notebook. This was born out of frustration of trying to remember where I first read something years ago, and spending hours pouring over my library. Every few years, the notebook gets typed into a document for ease of searching a key word.
This was a great vlog. I taking learning very seriously and kind of have a reputation for regularly teaching myself new things. You and I have many things in common with regard to learning. I’m a note taker, I listen to video and audio files in the background, and I practice (or practically apply) whatever it is that I am trying to learn. One of the keys to learning, in my opinion, in self confidence. Or the confidence that one can learn. Though it may be sci-fi, the following quote by Frank Herbert has always illustrated this really well for me: “Many have marked the speed with which Muad'Dib learned the necessities of Arrakis. The Bene Gesserit, of course, know the basis of this speed. For the others, we can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.”
With books, I put a piece of loose leaf in the table of contents. I write the name of the trick and a description of the effect as I read them. If it seems like something I’d do, a more detailed description (methodologies, props, etc) goes in the notebook. This was born out of frustration of trying to remember where I first read something years ago, and spending hours pouring over my library. Every few years, the notebook gets typed into a document for ease of searching a key word.
This was a great vlog. I taking learning very seriously and kind of have a reputation for regularly teaching myself new things. You and I have many things in common with regard to learning. I’m a note taker, I listen to video and audio files in the background, and I practice (or practically apply) whatever it is that I am trying to learn.
One of the keys to learning, in my opinion, in self confidence. Or the confidence that one can learn. Though it may be sci-fi, the following quote by Frank Herbert has always illustrated this really well for me:
“Many have marked the speed with which Muad'Dib learned the necessities of Arrakis. The Bene Gesserit, of course, know the basis of this speed. For the others, we can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.”