To Learn And To Progress

Learning

Systematically Learning

Learning should be systematic. First, people are good at forgetting things, but memorize things strongly associated. learning systematically can help people's memory. Second, in a specific field, there are common knowledge, terminology, and many research patterns, without know these things, it is hard to understand others' works and might not be able to do research in the front field.

The first option is no skipping

Every time when I read a book, I tend to skip many parts of it, and try to read the core part only. But end up learning very little. Although some basic knowledge are already known, it is good to review them. Further more, the application of the knowledge to some fields is good for me to learn. And it won't take me too long to read things that I am familiar with. So, be more patient!

Do Summary After Each Time of Learning

Don't rush to another thing before summary is made. Summary can help me to review things, and highlight key points and concepts from materials. Therefore, summary matters a lot.

Fragmented Learning

Sometimes, I won't have enough time for systematically learning, fragmented learning can help me. But I should focus on things that can be learnt well during fragmented time, such as shell script, cmake, some algorithms. these are sort of things independent from other knowledge, or relative independent under a systematical subject. Although learning can be fragmented, I should have a clear structure and roadmap in my mind, which means fragmented learning but systematically associating all the knowledge.

Making Progress

Keep Learning

The only way to make progress is to keep learning. My problem is, after keep my plan for a few days, I will be distracted by some thing else, and then I will forget my plan, learning process stops. I need to refresh myself every several days. Make sure that I remember my plan, and also keep on doing it. So every day morning, set up my plan for today first, and keep recording. Plans are made to follow, not to forget.

Record what I have learnt

Recording things matters in people's learning process. It can both helps you master things better, and also reminds you of what you have learnt. I should find a place to record, and write down things I have learnt.

Find Applications of Learnt things

The best to master things is applying them to a specific projects. For important knowledge, I really should find its application, and master them better.