What fascinated the author in writing this book, excited me to read it.
A new employee was hired in the author's office. Just after he was given the job the author came to know that the employee's resume was fake. What stopped the author from firing him was his worker's capabilities and willingness to learn and grasp things even within 2 months or so the employee learned everything he mentioned in his resume. In fact, he was so good at leaning things that he almost reached the level of the author's knowledge and worked almost like him. The author was so astonished because it took him years to reach that position . and so does made author research about how to learn and grasp things faster
To explain this better here I took 3 important lessons from the book.
1. The Learning Paradox: In a competition, Two groups were given various puzzles, experiments, and quizzes to solve. Group A was given a teacher for help with them, and on the other hand, group B students were left alone to discuss for the project. Results were as expected, Group A won ...but on the final test day the winner came out to be Group B.
now this happening is known as efficiency in a failure.
The reason behind the success of group B was a failure. Yaa sounds quite dumb but that's true group B discussed all the possible ways and analyzed the project themselves without any help. they used their brains and studied the subject from the core this made them fail the 1st time as they were new to it but later it became the reason for their victory.
This taught us that, don't fear to fail. fear if u didn't learn from it...
2. Passive vs active learning: output is more important than the input. now what happens is we generally intake the knowledge but don't use it as output . for example you wish to learn English speaking, for that, you regularly take classes and coaching which is a passive form of learning but only doing this wouldn't master your speaking skills unless you use it for real... same goes with fitness videos or any other motivational video... all are useless until brought into actions which signify an active form of learning. Also, this reminds me of the very old saying which says practice makes a man perfect.
3. Deep vs surface learning: According to research 94% of the people are unfit for their applied genre of jobs just because of the fact that they are surface learners. In simple words surface learners are those category people who just learn or study something for marks or short-term benefits. for example like most students, I had a bad habit of preparing lessons just a day or two before the exams. this may give short term results but later vanishes with time. Whereas deep learners take time to understand things which ultimately helps them to memorize it faster. An average student learns and tries to memorize the answers or a concept by repeating or maybe scribing topics this even though helps but only for a short period of time. The very simple and less time-consuming way is to understand the concept in the very first go. this engraves things in your mind for the long term. It's better to invest time in the beginning then to hectic at the last moment.
Some Learning model techniques from the book
1. Summarization: taking summaries for a glimpse or an idea about insights is good but just referring summary isn't enough.
2. Highlights: they arent enough but just good for remembering key points
3. Practice testing: try to write or revise anything you read by your own
4. Elaborated interrogation: ask as many questions to yourself about the topic you need to study. this takes you to the deep learning
5. Distributed practice: Instead of learning a thing for 7 hours a day start to learn one thing an hour for 7 days.
For many more interesting concepts and ideas refer to the book: https://amzn.to/2ENbdSP
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