I’m a strong believer of learning to learn is a actual skill in itself, meaning there’s a multitude of ways to efficiently learn whatever subject you’re interested in, and many ways to go about building those foundational skills.

I’ve been learning stuff on my own as of late and my next big hurdle is reaching calculus level in math. I’m not saying math was hard for me to comprehend but it’s just I never really have at bout it when I was in high school and thought it was boring.

Fast forward to now I’ve grow a fascination of learning new things and new insights and building those skills and nothing is stopping me from using any resources I can to accomplish the task

There is ultimately no one set rule to learn something, everyone’s study routine is different. I’ve kinda built my own study plan. For example before I said I want to reach calculus level, this is not the ultimate goal it’s just a stepping stone cause I might be interested in probability and statistics...
But to set that plan in motion I have to first look for resources .

Ultimately your first choice would to always check google. If you ask what you want to learn in question form it will lead you to searches where people most likely asked that same question before for you to look through and jot down some answers . I find Reddit pretty nice as my first research of learning a subject just because of the large subreddits and nerds that live on their that provide great recommendations. Hell there is even a learnmath subreddit with 100 of free resources links that lead me to some crackpot math nerd YouTube channel and lectures for me to put on 1.75x speed and take notes too. Online resources like khan academy can help also.

But learning to learn is kind of a abstract idea in itself. Efficiency is also everything to me, How to efficiently go about learning the subject. I’m a artist I still have a hard time dealing with depth in my drawings which relates more about perspective and composition, well to help me better i basically imagined the basic shapes, cube , sphere, cone etc. and I just rotate that shape in my head like I’m rotating it from some 3D software but I’m using my imagination then I take that object and set it in a space and think about the composition , i kinda then just see different frames of different compositioninvolving the shapes. Sure of course I can do it with 3D software and visually see what’s going on but my tip really helps for recalling what you learn into your memory. Most days before I fall asleep I just spin cubes in my head and imagine how it looks in perspective . When you’ve just closed your eyes , your not thinking of anything , your mind just kinda wonders before you do fall asleep , so why not use that time to sort of meditate and recall what you’re learning before you fall asleep .

There are lots of other ways I’ve found that has help me learn and I’m continuing to find more that work for me, I just thought this could be a thread for people to post their own study tips and learning tips to help others with whatever they want to do.

What to learn how to make beats better? Read the manual first, front to back. If you curious of what each knob do for a DAWs plug-in , it’s definitely there in the manual. Then play around with it. What to know how to make synths that you like the sound of in massive/serum. Read the manual, check the stock sounds/expansion pack sounds and write down the ones you like. Load them up and just tweak them a bit to your liking then save. Next day load up just a sawtooth wave and then turn one knob at a time till it matches that synth you made the previous day and takes notes on which knob changed the sound of the synth the most.

This is a lot to write and just a collection of thoughts, but there’s really levels toward learning and really out there ideas o. How to efficiently learn a skill.

tl;dr

Pomodoro

Op nobody gonna read all that s***.

Easiest way to learn math is to get a decent math book and do literally every question in the book and work out the examples given for yourself and try to explain them in your own language. If you ever get stuck, go on stack exchange and pray that those brainiac gods will help you.

one time i studied for a test the night before in my dreams

no idea how i did that but it helped a bit

This is more general about giving your own study tips. I already made a blueprint on my math learning from my post

Don't do it the day before the exam

Not in school atm, this is what I’m doing on my own time mainly during this pandemic

i think convincing yourself of your interest in what youre studying is important

i never have and never will study something i dont give a s*** about

Sometimes it's a prerequisite in a course you actually enjoy doing, but you just need to get that module out the way

i think its also possible to trick yourself into giving some passion though. As in maybe its possible to somehow justify it to yourself through some weird way?

You could, and honestly that's how you can get through it without struggling

Adderall xr

you need to plan ahead

give yourself enough time to understand the material before the test/due date

i remember taking this learning how to learn coursera course from uc san diego and they introduced me to some good learning techniques such as chunking and pomodoro

That’ll only take you so far.....when you gotta understand rigorous explanations of a theorem or proof it’s best to read a book on it. Or when you are tasked to making your own mathematical proofs from calculus, there’s only so much a Reddit post can do for you....before you will need a decent book for a through and concise explanation.

If you wanna get a great book that explains calculus very well I would suggest this...

It’s actually (at least for me) fun to read and not dry to the core like a traditional textbook. I’m being frank, if you’re serious about teaching yourself calculus then you’d have a textbook similar to this in your hands or the pdf on your phone, calculus gets extremely technical and you’ll notice the deeper you dig into rigorous math, the less stack exchange and Reddit will be able to assist you because you’re so far down the rabbit hole of knowledge .

I'm hip on everything that you said yeah reddit and searching is basically one layer for me as a resource, generally copying down robust information and saving it into my notepad to look into later, and ultimately the heart of any skill when you dig deep is in textbooks and practice and applications. there still are benefits from using every avenue or resource thats available than just one resource by itself.

Yup pretty much. Lee’s I typically only reach out to Reddit or Kahn academy etc after banging my head against the wall after like an hour or two on a problem or theorem I don’t understand

holy s*** no one is reading that
edit: plan ahead, always start studying weeks before

y'all niggas takin clinical meth to study

Don’t study, just know.

I’m a strong believer of learning to learn is a actual skill in itself, meaning there’s a multitude of ways to efficiently learn whatever subject you’re interested in, and many ways to go about building those foundational skills.
I’ve been learning stuff on my own as of late and my next big hurdle is reaching calculus level in math. I’m not saying math was hard for me to comprehend but it’s just I never really have at bout it when I was in high school and thought it was boring.
Fast forward to now I’ve grow a fascination of learning new things and new insights and building those skills and nothing is stopping me from using any resources I can to accomplish the task
There is ultimately no one set rule to learn something, everyone’s study routine is different. I’ve kinda built my own study plan. For example before I said I want to reach calculus level, this is not the ultimate goal it’s just a stepping stone cause I might be interested in probability and statistics...
But to set that plan in motion I have to first look for resources .
Ultimately your first choice would to always check google. If you ask what you want to learn in question form it will lead you to searches where people most likely asked that same question before for you to look through and jot down some answers . I find Reddit pretty nice as my first research of learning a subject just because of the large subreddits and nerds that live on their that provide great recommendations. Hell there is even a learnmath subreddit with 100 of free resources links that lead me to some crackpot math nerd YouTube channel and lectures for me to put on 1.75x speed and take notes too. Online resources like khan academy can help also.
But learning to learn is kind of a abstract idea in itself. Efficiency is also everything to me, How to efficiently go about learning the subject. I’m a artist I still have a hard time dealing with depth in my drawings which relates more about perspective and composition, well to help me better i basically imagined the basic shapes, cube , sphere, cone etc. and I just rotate that shape in my head like I’m rotating it from some 3D software but I’m using my imagination then I take that object and set it in a space and think about the composition , i kinda then just see different frames of different compositioninvolving the shapes. Sure of course I can do it with 3D software and visually see what’s going on but my tip really helps for recalling what you learn into your memory. Most days before I fall asleep I just spin cubes in my head and imagine how it looks in perspective . When you’ve just closed your eyes , your not thinking of anything , your mind just kinda wonders before you do fall asleep , so why not use that time to sort of meditate and recall what you’re learning before you fall asleep .
There are lots of other ways I’ve found that has help me learn and I’m continuing to find more that work for me, I just thought this could be a thread for people to post their own study tips and learning tips to help others with whatever they want to do.
What to learn how to make beats better? Read the manual first, front to back. If you curious of what each knob do for a DAWs plug-in , it’s definitely there in the manual. Then play around with it. What to know how to make synths that you like the sound of in massive/serum. Read the manual, check the stock sounds/expansion pack sounds and write down the ones you like. Load them up and just tweak them a bit to your liking then save. Next day load up just a sawtooth wave and then turn one knob at a time till it matches that synth you made the previous day and takes notes on which knob changed the sound of the synth the most.
This is a lot to write and just a collection of thoughts, but there’s really levels toward learning and really out there ideas o. How to efficiently learn a skill.

Dead my nigga mastered the matrix

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