🔼: [[⭐️ Learning]], # Elaboration --- Elaboration is finding additional layers of meaning in newly [[⭐️ Learning|learned]] material. Thinking about what you've learned, how you'd teach it to someone else, new questions and topics it could inspire, how it relates to what you already know, and how it relates to your life outside of a classroom. It helps us find the gaps and errors in what we already know, which points us in new directions. Elaboration is best done through [[🦮 How to Take Good Notes|taking good notes]] or [[🕯️ Journaling]] and is the best-researched and most successful [[🦮 How to Study|study method]], though it may not be the best way of learning isolated facts.[^1] [^1]: [[📖 🟢 How to Take Smart Notes - One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking]]