<p>I hate finals and can never seem to memorize formulas for my finance exams. Finally, I came across a pretty cool method of learning. It's a process that helped me retain, understand and apply concepts. Seriously has been a life saver for me this semester.</p>
<p>Take a look at the method here. It's a free online book written by some genius.</p>
<p>Here's the link:
Study</a> Less and Learn More Book</p>
<p>From what I read of it, this is actually not a new idea at all. It is, in reality, something called "depth learning" and has been empirically shown to be most effective in long-term recall of information. Basically, the more background you add to something or the more ways you look at that piece of information, the more neural connections that are made concerning that information, which makes recall much more likely.</p>
<p>Not sure if anyone else is getting that thing asking you to put in your zip code and other junk on there, but you can bypass the rest of that page with this direct link to the pdf: <a href="http://www.ebooks.thehelpster.com/d-loads/dl.php?filename=LearnMoreStudyLess.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.ebooks.thehelpster.com/d-loads/dl.php?filename=LearnMoreStudyLess.pdf</a></p>
<p>What this book talks about is actually what's causing me problems now in graduate school. In undergrad, I had a framework with which I could build all of my knowledge on top of. I was able to understand how everything fit together and what it all actually meant. Now in grad school I'm taking classes in a fairly different field than I had from undergrad and I never laid the groundwork to understand what's going on now, so the only way for me to make any sense of what's going on is to come up with a list of facts I know, and then try to interpret what they all mean together. It's much, much harder this way than starting from scratch and being able to incorporate everything you learn together.</p>