###### 🔑 Highlighting, rereading, and cramming are almost useless To highlight or copy and paste excerpts is to mark it for rereading, but it removes ideas from their context without recontexualizing them, which strips off some of their meaning and can be confusing. And cramming is just stuffing your mind with rereading -- but the knowledge quickly disappears. Rereading produces a sense of familiarity which triggers a similar emotion as learning, but familiarity is not learning -- [[🔑 Learning requires effort]]. It might help you pass a test, but they're basically useless for real [[⭐️ Learning]]. To learn is to understand, and if we can't teach complete beginners what we're supposed to have learned in our own words, we don't understand it and have learned nothing at all. You're much better off learning [[🦮 How to Take Good Notes]] and [[🦮 How to Study]]. If there's no time for that you're better off with [[🕯️ Movement Practices 👟]] (because [[Exercise reduces stress]] and [[Stress makes learning impossible]]) or [[⭐️ Sleep]] (because sleep is where [[💡 Recoding|Memory Consolidation]] happens and it too lowers stress.) [^1]: [[Make It Stick The Science of Successful Learning]] [^2]: [[How to Take Smart Notes - One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers]]