"Ultralearning" is a book written by a Canadian author, Scott Yang.
The author learned the skill of sketching in a month. 4 languages, which are Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, and Korean in a year. He also finished MIT courses in a year, and passed the exam. How did he do that?! In his book, he tries to teach us how to implement autonomy and intense learning. Here are 9 tips.
1. Build your learning map. In the filed you want to learn, to draw where is the goal and direction? Where are you now? What are you lack of to your target? And Then, to find out the common points of successful persons in this field, and to collect their methods. That is to say, before you learning a knowledge, to learn how to learn it.
2.Start do it directly. Learn it while doing it.
3.Try and error, find out the problems, analyze the reasons, like you are doing experiment.
4.Recall the memories you learned to strengthen memory.
5.Review it interval to make the knowledge keeping in your long memory area of brain.
6.Repeat to practice your weakness, not where you are good at.
7.Remove the elements that distract you. Build a concentrate environment.
8.Try to receive feedback from outside to adjust yourself, then back to 3. Make it circle.
9.Develop intuition. After you accumulate a lot of knowledge, your brain would become a database. Then update it all the time through reading.
The purpose of learning is to know all the potentials and possibilities of you.