How to learn anything new quickly: 1) Find an expert (Real Life
(tm) or Youtube.* Suspend your disbelief and trust their word as
Gold. 2) Have them show you what they do / what they know / what
you want to learn. 3) Whenever the smallest thing confuses you -
a word or phrase you don't understand - a part of the process
that doesn't make sense: Stop them immediately and ask
questions, measure, try it out, look up more information on
Wikipedia, find diagrams, other explanations of the same thing
worded differently. Do not continue until you have grasped it,
whether it takes you a few seconds, a minute, or a day.* If it
is a point that you need to feel, touch or taste, then set up an
experiment, take something apart, try to put something together
- really GRASP it completely to your fullest satisfaction.* Put
it in your own words, find analogies to other things you already
know about. If you continue before you are absolutely sure you
understand and fully comprehend something, you will find
yourself slipping further and further before finally, you give
up on the topic saying, "it's too difficult".* Don't.* See it
through and don't let it be boring to you.* Find a 'hook" that
makes it interesting for you. 4) When you do fully comprehend a
point, allow them to continue (or press "play"). 5) Repeat steps
2-4 until you are satisfied about the topic. 6) Teach somebody
else what you have learned as soon as you can.* This CEMENTS
what you have learned in your mind, for you learn more by
TEACHING someone else than by learning it all just for
yourself.** Learning comes from understanding, sharing and
feedback.* That's a fact. I applied it to 'Dissecting an Engine"
video.* Watched a few seconds.* Any term I did not know fully or
understand, i looked up.* When I "got it", i reworded it, found
an illustrative picture, and explained it on my status update on
Facebook.* 'i learn, you learn'.* That 1/2 hr video I "digested"
in tiny 20-30 second increments on and off throughout the day,
while doing my regular things, which made for a comfortable pace
of learning new material and didn't interfere with other things.
Example: If you know a cook whose recipe you adore (and they're
willing), ask them to show you how to make it.* Now, people who
cook for a long time don't usually measure everything - they
just have a 'feel' for the right amounts. Let's say it's a
baker, and she grabs a handful of flour and is about to toss it
into a bowl.* Before it goes into the bowl, STOP HER and measure
the flour and write it down.* let her continue.* she pours
something else in the palm of her hand.* Before she tosses it
in, STOP HER, measure it, then let her continue.* Keep that
going and you'll end up with a recipe - FROM AN EXPERT - that
becomes REPEATABLE.* HER INTUITION is ENCODED in the amounts she
uses for her recipe - and while you may not gain her INTUITION
of the proper amounts to you, you WILL be able to make the same
recipe. This was Ken Without The Clever Nickname - hoping it
helps you out.
