| Summarization of the article: Meta-learning: one must learn how to most effectively learn before they can effectively read. 1. Learning is a combination of recall and understanding. One must have the ideas in their mind before they can process them and put pieces together. Use mental models to effectively partition articles and integrate bits of information. Effective reading: using active learning processes results in enhanced information processing. 1. Know why you're reading. 2. Actively reading is a combination of adding information to existing knowledge branches and picking information which is relevant to you. 3. Approaches to do this: mind mapping, [question, evidence, reflection] -> asking questions about the stuff you're reading and answering them. 4. Remember through active recall/repetition. It's a decent guide but quite verbose. Most readers are better off learning how to speed read and use memory palaces. Effective reading is built off those 2 pieces. |