Super top students: the most efficient learning method for top students

Chapter 20 Upgrading Memory and Cultivating Good Habits of Memory (2)
"That's not necessarily the case, but they always maintain a good memory habit. Mao Yisheng, a bridge expert in my country, is one of them. He designed and built dozens of bridges such as the Qiantang River Bridge, Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge, and Panzhihua Ferry Bridge in his life. The modernized bridge has opened up the road to the success of China's bridge theory and technology. He has written many books, and Comrade Mao Zedong once praised him as "not only a scientist, but also a writer". What is the secret of Mao Yisheng's road to success? ,do you know?"

"The spirit of diligence, hard work, and serious study."

"In addition to this, he also has a good habit of repeating memory. When he was a teenager, he paid attention to the thinking method of repeating memory, paying attention to the use of brain memory and notes, and using notes as the basis and basis for the brain to re-memorize. October 1911 , Mao Yisheng was admitted to Tangshan Road and Mining School. During the five years at the school, he compiled 10 lecture notes, nearly ten million words. The school was named No.5. In the No.200 school, Mao Yisheng ranked first in the graduation examination. Mao Yisheng's memory is very amazing. Until he was in his 1916s, he could still recite the number of pi after more than 7 decimal points digit value, which is very remarkable. But he thinks: "It is also very simple to say, repeat, repeat, repeat! According to the research of psychologists, without 1 repetitions, it is impossible to remember. I for Remember it firmly, remember more than 1 times and 80 times! As long as you are willing to work hard, there is nothing impossible in the world.'”

It can be seen that repeated memory is a very important habit for a person to learn knowledge.We've all been there, if you stare at someone for 3 hours straight and never see him again, maybe in the next month or two you forget what he looks like.If you spread those 3 hours over many days and only look at that person for a minute or two each day, you'll never forget what he looks like for the rest of your life.

Someone has done an experiment: two groups of students study a section of text, group A has a review shortly after the study, group B does not review, after one day, group A maintains 98%, group B maintains 56%; after one week, group A maintains 83% , Group B maintained 33%.The average forgetting rate of group B is higher than that of group A.That is to say, our learning process is a process of repeated and repeated review.

Only by repeatedly memorizing and learning repeatedly can we reduce the frequency of forgetting and strengthen memory in the process of continuous repetition, which will help us consolidate our knowledge and improve our academic performance, and lay a good foundation for us to become a top student. Base.

Forgetting is the enemy of memory. It makes memory traces gradually indifferent or even disappear. Through repeated memory, the traces of the cerebral cortex can be increased, so as to achieve the purpose of deepening the understanding of the recorded content, repairing and consolidating the memory.So, how do we develop the habit of repeating memories?To start from the following aspects:

1. Repeat memory in time
According to the law of forgetting, forgetting does not occur in the same proportion over time.The content learned that day should be reviewed on the same day, and the second review should not be too long.The interval between two review sessions should be at least 30 minutes but less than 16 hours.Because starting to review within 30 minutes will interfere with the physiological process of the brain to consolidate the original memory content, which is not conducive to the memory effect; if you review after 16 hours, too much of the memorized content has been forgotten, which is tantamount to wasting energy ahead.In the future, the interval between reviews can be longer, and the time spent on each review can be less.

2. Repeat memory many times
"Learn and learn from time to time", the students all understand this truth, but there are not many people who can really stick to it.Many students often review once or twice, and then stop asking questions after the exam.In this way, as time goes by, the things in memory are completely forgotten.

In general, multiple iterations are best done like this:
For the first review, organize the notes immediately after learning the knowledge, remember the main points, and repeat it in your own words. This is the best way to keep your memory.

For the second review, read your notes again, and then repeat it in your own words. If there is anything you don't understand, you should check the information in time.

The third time to repeat the memory is to associate what you have learned with the old knowledge points, and then repeat it every one or two weeks, so that the memory effect will be very good.

3. Change the way of repeating memory

According to the law of memory, repeated review often tends to make the brain tired, so we must learn to change the way of repetition, so as to keep the brain in a state of excitement.

Sir Richard Bolton, a British translator, can speak 27 languages ​​fluently, but he admitted that he would never practice or study a certain language for more than 15 minutes at a time, "because, once more than 15 minutes, the mind loses its alignment. It's fresh."

We can also learn from Richard Burton's changing way of remembering.For example, when reviewing mathematics, you can recite formulas and laws, and look at sample problems; you can also do some problems; you can also tell others; you can also make tables or draw pictures of the contents of this chapter.When reviewing a text, you can read aloud, recite, copy, write silently, listen to tapes, and watch DVDs.

Eyebrows and beards cannot be grasped at once - learn to focus on memory

"Mumu, there is a super memory king in our class, I am very envious of him."

"Really? Tell me what he can do."

"Not only can he remember the knowledge points in the book, he can also remember things that have nothing to do with learning very accurately. That day we went out to play and walked on the road. Every time we saw a car, he could tell the model and name of the car. Let everyone listen."

"It's really enviable, but it's not a scientific way to memorize everything in one go. In ancient times, some people had a very good memory and could even recite articles backwards. However, Zheng Banqiao looked down on this. This kind of people, call them "dumb people who don't know". Zheng Banqiao believes that if you don't distinguish between priority and importance, regardless of whether it is useful or useless, and memorize them all in one brain, you will not know. A good memory should choose the most important and most effective. To remember the content of meaning, and at the same time strive to understand. Forming such a memory habit will benefit us throughout our lives.

The selective memory mentioned by Mumu is also called key memory, which is a method of selecting and choosing memory materials during the memory process and concentrating on remembering the key parts.

Professor Wu Wenjun is a famous mathematician in my country.

One day, a guest came to visit him.As soon as he entered the door, the guest happily said to Professor Wu Wenjun:

"Professor Wu, I heard from your wife that today is your [-]th birthday, so I'm here to congratulate you!"

"Really? I forgot." Professor Wu Wenjun replied.

The guest wondered if Professor Wu Wenjun was old and his memory was declining.

Later, the guest chatted with Professor Wu Wenjun.When talking about proving geometry problems with machines that Professor Wu studied, the guest pointed to a machine designed by the professor and asked, "When was this machine installed?"

"December 12 last year." Professor Wu Wenjun replied without thinking.

"What progress have you made in proving geometry problems with machines?" the guest asked again.

"I can't talk about big progress. Before January 1 this year, I programmed more than 11 'commands' for the computer and completed the first step of preparation." Professor Wu Wenjun replied.

The guest was very surprised and asked, "Professor Wu, you can't even remember your own birthday, but you can remember these days so clearly. What's the reason?"

Professor Wu Wenjun smiled and said: "I never memorize those meaningless numbers. In my opinion, what does it matter if the birthday is one day earlier or one day later? So, my birthday, my lover's birthday, and the children's birthday None, but there are some numbers that have to be remembered. It is also difficult to forget when we have the choice to focus on certain things.”

Although Wu Wenjun is old, he still remembers some important events clearly because he has developed the habit of focusing on memory.In our study and life, we should develop a good habit of remembering key points. As long as we remember the important questions, it will be easy to remember other content.

In our study, it is very difficult and impossible to remember all the questions clearly, so if you want to be a top student, what important content should you remember selectively?

1. The most basic theorems and formulas

For students, remembering all the knowledge points is certainly a good thing, but people's energy is limited, so we must remember some basic knowledge points of various subjects, so that even if some content is forgotten Formulas and theorems to infer.

2. Focus on memorizing the way and thinking of solving problems
We know that the result of learning is very important, but learning is also a very technical thing, just like fishing, we must learn how to fish, not just wait for others to give you fish.This is also the teaching purpose of teachers. They hope to "teach them to fish" instead of "teach them to fish".Sometimes we also have the experience that when the teacher explained the example problems in get out of class, we listened very carefully, but we still couldn’t do similar problems after class, which is why we didn’t focus on the method of memory .In fact, if we can keep up with the teacher's ideas, learn the teacher's problem-solving methods, and listen carefully to the steps explained by the teacher, similar problems will no longer be difficult for us.

Of course, grasping the key memory does not mean that there is no need to remember other content, but that after grasping the key point, it is easier to remember other content.For example, the reasons for peasant wars in the late Qin Dynasty can be summarized as "heavy taxes, many labors, and cruel laws".In this way, you can remember more comprehensively.The Soviet writer Baustovsky said: "Memory is like a sieve in a myth, sifting out the sand and leaving the gold." This is exactly the case, and using the key memory method can help you sift to the gold.

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