Learn as if you are a student taking exams
On engineering
When we grow up as an adults, most of the time, we lost our learning attitude. I’m not saying that we don’t work hard or learn diligently as a student, but I did lost that precision and quality I used to have when preparing for exams.
What if, I imagine myself learning like a students preparing for an exam again?
Before: I self study ML in my free time, but I often want to stop when things get hard, or I ignored what I didn’t understand.
With the new attitude: I don’t just take notes for important concepts. I take complete notes to the level that I can read it without supporting documents (aka I also need to handwrite codes). Yet, slowing things done greatly improve my understanding and attention to important details.
When I’m bored doing similar work, what if I imagine I’m a student practicing problem set?
Before: I get annoyed that there is bug here and bug there.
Now: I wrote now all the problems and time it.
Problem set 1: The bar doesn’t show….. Problem solving time: x min
Problem set 2: …
It greatly reduced my personal boredom, but also allow me to monitor my progress.
As a engineer, of course, we rarely do handwritten notes, and we think build build build will help us improve. Yet, can we do better by applying different learning methods?
Inspired by my law student friend’s bar test studying style, and another friend who used flashcard app to study leetocde.
Yes yes yes!! I want to be a student forever. Can we create a school together and reinforce student-ship??