Have a mental conversation with ideas to learn effectively
Summary
- You must interact and process material that you have read in order to assimilate the information
Details
- Just reading is not enough to learn
- Asking questions, interacting, writing in your own words are all methods to interact wtih what you learn
Reflections
- This is true - see Process information to make it useful
References
Quotes
Information itself is not going to teach you. You must have a dialogue with the material you discover and interact with it in a way that makes up for not having a stimulating teacher or professor. You must pull information out. You can accomplish this through asking critical and probative questions—the goal is to gain understanding, context, and perspective, not to seek a correct answer. As long as you focus on the overall purpose of finding a nuanced and three-dimensional view of a topic, your questions will be well-guided.