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Establishing how information is structured

Establishing how information is structured

From the course: Ultralearning: Accelerate Your Career and Outsmart the Competition (Blinkist Summary)

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Establishing how information is structured

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- [Instructor] Blink number two. Meta-learning is a crucial yet overlooked step for reaching a big-picture understanding of your field. Whether you're teaching yourself stochastic calculus or perfecting your tennis serve, your ultra-learning project should always begin with meta-learning, the process of learning how to learn. The idea here is that you shouldn't start by absorbing information at random. You should first establish how information is structured in your chosen field. For example, the writing system of Mandarin Chinese isn't just a bunch of random characters. Instead, the characters are organized by radicals, which are visual markers that express the relationships between those characters. So if you were learning Mandarin, you'd want to start with organizing principles like radicals, rather than just memorizing each character individually. Meta-learning is all about looking for the big picture, then using it to…

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