Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by fburnaby 5540 days ago
Study with others. Preferably others who are motivated, but don't know quite as much as you. You'll end up teaching them the material. This forces you to explain the same concept five different ways (until you find a way to say it that your friend actually understands it) and this forces you to make all sorts of new connections.

It also gives you near-term motivation to stay on task -- your friends are counting on you to focus.