• Be wary of illusion of competence!
  • Get to learn on track.
  • To overcome the illusion of competence do these things.
    • Mini testing, test yourself everyday. Make it a competition against your own will.
    • Try to remember and recall everything.
    • Value yourself when making mistakes.
  • Reading book over and over again is not productive.
    • Instead do recall!
    • Reading book over and over is what you called as over learning.
    • This could give you the illusion of competence.
  • Recalling the most information as you could.
    • So, instead of re reading book, it is better to first recall what the most thing you can remember.
    • Then, verify it by briefly reading the book again.
  • The keys here are to practicing and recalling.
  • By recalling she meant to create concept map.
    • Does this mean that making a note is worse then creating mind map?
    • Mind map is harder and take longer to make though.
    • Unless you invent yourself a fast, draft style mind mapping application.
  • When we retrieve knowledge make sure you meant it.
    • Because this makes you easier to connect the knowledge to the situation.
    • I think I can also try to understand environment as well when retrieving new information.
  • Chunk is like a web page to a bigger website.
  • Making a neural hook so that it is easier you to recall it in other occasions. The octopus analogy.
  • Solution needs to be yours. It should not just be seen.
    • This is important because mainly I studied from the examples.
    • I think this might be the reason why I failed.
  • Try to look after main idea before highlighting.
    • Do not highlight too much.
    • Instead to these things.
      • Search for the main idea.
      • Only highlight anything that is related to the main idea.
      • Usually 1 to 2 highlights per paragraph.
  • Jeffrey Karpicke, a researcher has done a research on illusions on competence.
  • To make sure your knowledge is not an illusion, make sure to always test yourself.
  • Mini test your self. To makes mistakes, then learn from it.
    • Mistakes repairs thinking flaws.
  • Another tip that the lecturer recommend is to learn something in a new place.
    • This make it easier for the knowledge to be connected with the new place where you studied it.