How to reduce being Overwhelmed when studying
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- Опубліковано 16 січ 2023
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Relevance is a key context for me. That applies almost universally. I don’t always think to stop and ask myself why something is relevant. When I do, it’s always a step in the right direction - either towards or away from something.
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Overwhelmed tricks - relevance,prior knowledge,broad not detailed ,top to bottom approach
PEOPLE may say that make your video shorter but it doesn't cover up many things in details like in superficial level,
"Path of relevance", love it. It makes so much sense.
Questions:
How do I know which is the right Prior Knowledge?
And
What is the most efficient way to find, extract and store that Prior Knowledge?
As far as I understand knowledge always has an application, keeping a big picture image of a topic's purpose helps us seek its foundational knowledge, which acts as 'Prior knowledge' for more detailed concepts, in turn these do the same for even more specific concepts creating a sort of hierarchical schema of the knowledge a topic covers sorted by importance, meaning the effect a given concept delivers in relation to the goal/topic's purpose/application (this was a tricky concept to grasp in my experience so don't hesitate to ask if you need further clarification).
Going through a whole topic always trying to fulfill the most foundational/important knowledge first will help our brain create "hooks" for more detailed concepts next, aiding retention. Keep in mind that as long as the mental schema/structure of a topic's knowledge you create is logical it doesn't need to look the same as the one you see in a learning resource (book, video, lecture...) in fact its often better for it to feel intuitive as it helps to learn efficiently.
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Justin can you please tell me how i find the things that are relevant?
Thats absolutely on you, mostly find sources that are relevant to your major/ what you want to learn, google, youtube... ask questions to seniors in your field... thats how
Edit: its even better that you actively find the relevance to the topic in hand, that would make knowledge you acquire sink in better.
As whimsical as it might first seem your brain's curiosity is a great mechanism for pointing out relevant information because it signals knowledge that is "clicking"/related with other patterns of information already stored in your memory.
In my experience, when approaching a new topic you will most likely find things pretty irrelevant until you get a grasp for its most foundational/big picture knowledge and its application/purpose first.
It's often the case that learning resources don't structure their information in the most intuitive way, so it becomes really helpful to use non-linear methods of learning that prioritize seeking that foundational knowledge first regardless of where it is placed on the book, video, lecture, etc. this will help retain the information much better that simply going through the resource linearly without heeding how it's structured.
what's the meaning of relevance here? Just making information important, or?
Making it important + Make intuitive connections
Bro its just simplyy : to relate what youre actively learning for the first time with prior acquired knowledge !
You want to connect what you're learning to other concepts to make it easier to understand and remember, but sometimes you don't have the prior knowledge of those "other concepts" to build those connections.
A better way to phrase it is foundation knowledge. Start with the basics. Do the easy stuff first and build off of that. Then you can move onto the harder stuff.
Relevance is a property of knowledge that has a compelling (to us, in anyway) purpose.
When learning, specially when doing so linearly, we run the risk of trying to retain information that isn't clear to us how it is related to the big picture of the topic, this is usually futile because we don't know how to apply it making it an isolated piece of information and thus easily forgettable.