The learning methods and training details of Harvard's top students

Chapter 10 Use the method that suits you, learning is the most effective (2)
14. Is learning in addition to books or books?
15. Do you have the habit of consulting dictionaries and reference books when you encounter something unclear?
16. Do you study while watching TV or listening to the radio?
17. Do you take good care of textbooks and reference books?

18. Is there a bad habit of studying while holding a snack or drink?

19. Can you concentrate in class or self-study, and rarely go off?
20. Are you unwilling to learn weak subjects and subjects you are not interested in?
21. Can you learn and help each other with your classmates?
22. Are you unwilling to study at home, but often go to your classmates' home to study?
23. Can you use every bit of time to learn?

24. Do you always worry about a poor test result?

25. Did you answer the questions carefully and neatly during the exam?

26. Do you ignore the test paper after listening to the teacher's comments after the test?
27. After being praised by the teacher, do you like school life more and become more interested in the teacher's class?

28. Once criticized, do you feel brooding and frowning?
Scoring method:

If you choose "Yes" for odd-numbered questions, you will get 1 point, if you choose "No", you will get 0 points; if you choose "Yes" for even-numbered questions, you will get 0 points, and if you choose "No", you will get 1 point.Add the scores for each item to get the total score.

Test Results:

If the total score is above 50, it means that your learning method is excellent; if you score 40-49, your learning method is good;

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Mr. Lu Dengting, who served as the president of Harvard University for ten years and is now the honorary president of Harvard University, said: "What Harvard University gives students is a way of learning and a way to solve problems."

He said that the method of solving problems is not limited to learning, but also applies to life.Harvard University has students from more than 100 countries in the world studying together. They have different religious beliefs, different living habits, and different political views. Therefore, we must teach them how to solve problems and help them when differences arise. Strengthen communication, understand each other, and achieve harmonious coexistence.

"At Harvard University, yesterday the teacher gave a student a book, and today he will ask him what he thinks, instead of taking that simple test method."

He emphasized that students at Harvard will have a lot of freedom, choose courses freely, and engage in different researches, so that they can learn in a passionate way.The school should provide them with research topics and directions, provide a large number of information resources (including online and jointly collected by faculty and staff), guide students to make their own decisions and maintain a certain goal of continuous learning.

【Harvard view】

An excellent study plan is a blueprint to achieve your goals

If you want to be successful in doing anything, you must make a detailed plan before taking action, and learning is no exception.The study plan is the blueprint for realizing the study goal, making a good study plan can help us effectively improve the efficiency of study.

Harvard University professor Stanley Hoffman said: "In any case, in order to improve the efficiency of learning, it is indispensable to formulate a detailed study plan." , obviously helpful.

In the process of learning, we often see some students walking around, looking left and right, as if there is nothing to do after the homework is completed.This is actually a kind of learning attitude without clear goals and easygoing, which is largely caused by not making a detailed learning plan for yourself.

Students with a strong plan, when and what to do are very regular, they will immediately do another thing after finishing one thing, and never have nothing to do, no goal.They also grasp the time very tightly, and they will not easily waste the good time in vain.

A detailed study plan makes your learning activities clear. When you strive for your study to go according to plan, due to the ever-changing study life, there will often be some unexpected situations that will affect the plan, such as temporarily increasing the collective Activities, more homework, approaching exams, etc., often disrupt our study plans.In these situations, we must not be impatient, or still rigidly follow the plan, but adjust our study plan in time to enhance the feasibility of the plan to adapt to the changed study situation.Sometimes you will encounter difficulties during the implementation of the plan. At this time, you need to use your strong will to overcome difficulties and eliminate temptations to implement the study plan.When implementing the plan, every time you overcome a difficulty and complete a task, you will enhance your confidence and courage to overcome the difficulties in learning while enjoying the joy of victory.

If you study and live according to the plan for a long time, get up when the time is right, go to bed when the time is right, concentrate on studying when it is time to study, exercise when it is time to exercise, you will not be able to listen to the next class without previewing, and you will not be able to listen to the next class without reviewing. do homework.This will make the study life very regular, and you can gradually develop good study habits.

This kind of good study habits can greatly improve your study efficiency and study quality.

[Easy interaction]

1. During your study, have you made a long-term study plan?

2. Do you make a small plan for your study every day?
3. In the usual study, can you stick to the plan?

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Here are some things to keep in mind when making a study plan:
1. The plan should be comprehensive

In addition to the time for study, the plan should also have time for social work and collective service; time for sleeping; and time for recreational activities.There can't be only three things in the plan: eat, sleep and study.

2. Arrange regular and free study time
Regular study time is the study time stipulated by the school, which is mainly used to complete the study tasks assigned by the teacher that day and "digest" the knowledge learned that day.In the free time, there are generally two things you can do: make up lessons and improve.Free study time should be a key part of your study plan.

3. Long-term planning and short-term planning

In a relatively long period of time, there should be a rough plan for what to do.For example, a semester, a school year should have a long plan.If you have a long-term plan, you must also have short-term arrangements, otherwise the goals to be achieved in the long-term plan will not be easy to achieve.

4. Highlight key points while taking into account the general

The so-called key points: one refers to the weak subjects in one's own study, and the other refers to the key content in the knowledge system.When making a plan, you must concentrate your time and energy to attack the key points.

5. Don't get divorced from the reality of learning

Some students were full of enthusiasm and thought well when they made plans, but they couldn’t move forward when they took action. This is because the goals were set too high, the plans were set too rigidly, and they were divorced from reality.

6. Don't be too full, too dead, too tight

It is necessary to allow maneuvering time to make the plan have a certain degree of mobility, so that the possibility of completing the plan will increase.

7. Combination of brain and body, alternate art and science

When arranging the plan, don't engage in a single activity for a long time, and arrange study and sports activities alternately.For example: After studying for an afternoon, you should go to exercise for a while, and then come back to study.During exercise, the motor center is excited, while the brain cells in other areas are rested.When arranging subjects, liberal arts and science should be arranged alternately, and similar learning content should not be studied together.

8. Improve the utilization rate of study time
In the morning or evening, or at the beginning and end of a day's study, you can arrange subjects that focus on memory, such as foreign languages.When you are in a happier mood, more concentrated, and have more time, you can arrange boring subjects or subjects you don’t like; when you have sporadic and difficult to concentrate time, you can arrange exercises and subjects you are most interested in.This can improve time utilization.

【Harvard view】

Only by actively seeking shortcuts can we bypass the detours of learning

When people do anything, they hope to find a shortcut so that they can reach the other side of success smoothly.In terms of learning, we can also find a shortcut to learning and open a smooth path to success for our own learning.

If you don't seek a scientific learning method that suits you, don't find shortcuts, but always take detours, you will not be able to reach your destination. Even if you barely reach it, you will always be half a beat slower than others.This is the reason why some people study hard all their lives, but never produce results.

In fact, the learning method that suits you is the shortcut to learning.Shortcuts and shortcuts are good learning methods and scientific learning methods.

In addition to scientific learning methods, diligence and hard work are also "shortcuts" to learning. Although this "shortcut" has some difficulties, it is very effective in learning.

Diligent study not only includes being good at using time to read and practice diligently, but also includes diligently brainstorming and thinking.The great inventor Edison said: "Genius is one percent inspiration plus 90.00% ninety percent hard work and sweat." Without this 90.00% ninety percent hard work and sweat, no matter how clever a brain is, it is of no benefit to a person's study.

At the same time, diligent study without diligent thinking will make people confused and gain nothing; only thinking without diligent study will also lead to nothing.In the process of learning, we must be good at summing up experience and learn to learn and think in the correct way.Studying hard and learning skillfully is the real hard work.Diligence and hard work have a deeper meaning, that is, not only study hard, but also study happily.Only when you read to your heart and become interested in learning, will you learn voluntarily, forgetting to eat and sleep, and learning with great interest, and you will truly realize the joy of seeking knowledge, enjoy it, and enjoy the joy of suffering. Gain real knowledge in learning.

In addition, concentration can also improve the efficiency of learning and become another shortcut for learning.Concentration is also the most cohesive and integrated quality in learning.If a person does not concentrate on studying, he learns one thing for a while and then another for a while, in the end he can only learn nothing.Therefore, you must cultivate your concentration in your studies. You must concentrate on listening to lectures in class, concentrate on reading books, and concentrate on doing homework. This is also the most fundamental guarantee for efficient learning.Some students are talented and have a high IQ, but their learning effect is poor. A very important reason is that they lack concentration during the learning process.

American comparative psychologist Richard Hernstein once said: "Attention is the window of knowledge. Without it, the sunshine of knowledge cannot shine in." itself is also important.

If you want to find a shortcut to learning to get the ideal learning effect, then just do it according to the above, so that your learning effect will be improved quickly.

[Easy interaction]

1. Do you think there are really shortcuts to take in the process of learning?
2. In your mind, what do you think should be the shortcut for learning?
3. Think about it, do you think you have a good habit of focusing on learning?

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According to the opinions of American education experts and Harvard top students themselves, the top ten secrets are as follows:
(1) Put learning first.In their minds, learning is business, and business should precede entertainment.

(2) Study anywhere.Memorize words on the way to practice every day; post a vocabulary list next to the sink, and memorize a new word when brushing your teeth every day.No matter how different they are, there is one thing they are consistent: to ensure the study time and to persevere.

(3) Be organized.Put the commonly used learning-related things within easy reach, and pack important school supplies and materials in a carton or drawer to avoid rummaging around when you use them.

(4) Learn to read.Learn to read quickly, improve unit reading, learn to read the table of contents, illustrations and illustrations of a book, in order to understand the content of the book in advance and obtain more effective information; be an active reader-keep asking questions until you grasp all the information between the lines until.

(5) Reasonable arrangement.No matter how late you are, encourage yourself to finish your homework that day.

(6) Good at taking notes.Emphasize the effort of taking notes.Top students tend to memorize the key points while listening to the class; some draw a line in the middle of the notebook, half of which extracts the summary of the text, and the other half writes down what the teacher supplements.

(7) Neat writing.

(8) Ask questions in a timely manner.

(9) Learning to help each other.Students often discuss difficult problems in homework together, use different problem-solving methods and exchange ideas with each other.

(10) Self-examination.When taking notes, pay special attention to the knowledge points that you think you may be able to test. After class, you can make up mock questions based on these knowledge points, and make written answers on the eve of the test.If the answer is not satisfactory, go back and review again.

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