Books about how to learn something correctly, is there anything good?

Question

Books

It's not about books in any particular discipline, but in general. Read a book and learn anything from programming to surgery. More or less like this. Has anyone seen/read something similar? Did it help or was it a waste of time reading? You can also video if there are no books, except for the course with Learning how to learn coursers.

Answer 1

There is learning technology. It is based on the fact that when studying any material, there are only three barriers that need to be overcome in order to fully understand what is being studied: 1) The material may not be real enough for a person. It's as if a person was required to study airplanes, but he would only have books, with texts, even without diagrams and photographs. (And absolutely no one gives him either simulators or real aircraft.) It is clear that it would be impossible to study the subject. However, in lectures and in books, this happens all the time - teachers and authors of books very often present the material completely without taking into account the fact that it is still unfamiliar to the student. This problem is especially common in the study of mathematics and a number of other disciplines. The means to deal with this is very simple - find either the device itself, car, appliance, etc. Or at least his photographs, diagrams, etc. There are no diagrams - we draw. When learning programming (a new library, language, framework, etc.) for each concept, especially at first, we run a test case right in the code and figure out how and what works. As you become more familiar with these test cases, you will need fewer. 2) The principle of gradualness is violated (as they say in learning technology, the gradient is too steep). The bottom line is that for practical, real work with the material (with examples, as they say, from life), you must first run simple examples many times, from the textbook, really master them. Really many times. Then the transition to more complex examples occurs naturally. In universities and books, this is simply a disaster. Too often, listening to a lecture or reading a book, you realize that in order to understand the material, you have to read and master five more books and lectures before that. Too often teachers and book authors assume that "the student already knows this" and do not explain the basic concepts at all. The recipe for this is also simple. If we feel confused, we move on to simpler material that seems to be well understood. (But it always turns out that, in fact, there is something left misunderstood).
3) Misunderstood words in the text. This is a real ambush. School and university have taught us to pass by misunderstood words in the text so much that it seems that "it is impossible to do otherwise" and that "everyone reads like that." Moreover, not even special terms, but the most ordinary words, can be misunderstood. The reason is that the word can be used by the author of the text in some specific meaning, but we do not know it. (Although the word may even sound familiar.) It is enough to look into any dictionary and see how many meanings the so-called "simple" words have. There are dozens of them. Coping: The dictionary is our best friend. The material seems incomprehensible - we are looking for whether all the words are clear in the text. We met a word that raises questions, we immediately look in the dictionary. (And also in Wikipedia or in any other encyclopedia). We feel that it is not clear - we clarify. We look what does it mean. Immediately everything falls into place and begins to be clear.
All three barriers even cause reactions in the body (headache, dizziness, discomfort in the eyes and in the stomach, and others), which are specific to each barrier and are clearly distinguishable by a trained person. There are also emotional reactions - for example, irritation. And also - the desire to quit the studied subject!
You can take a course on learning technology. Personally, after taking such a course, I realized how much time and effort I spent in vain during my studies at the university. And how much better it would be to study the material. There are only three barriers to understanding and, accordingly, three tools to deal with them. The granite of science should not be gnawed, but crushed with tools. Here are these.

Answer 2

The closest to this topic is "Think Like a Mathematician" by Barbara Oakley, but it is quite superficial and full of common truths.

Answer 3

https://vk.com/wall-186473262_71
An article about "six strategies for effective learning, each proven by decades of research in cognitive psychology and beneficial regardless of subject or level of study."
https://vk.com/@thevyshka-uchimsya-uchitsya
Related article from TheVyshka.

Answer 4

In addition to "Learning how to learn" there is nothing to advise. From a personal point of view: I learn the Rust language and just do it at my own pace (the official book of 1/2/3 chapters every 1/2 weeks + from time to time I repeat the code behind the screencasts), applying some techniques from the course (the pomodoro method , for example, an incredibly powerful thing that boosts productivity wildly).

Answer 5

YouTube channel Anastacia Kay, but in principle, the main provisions are set out by Barbara Oakley or Peter Brown's "Remember Everything". These are not magic pills like putting a book under the pillow, but techniques that you can use or not use =)
Well, as far as I remember, it’s a myth about auditory / visuals, etc., people just get used to a certain method and it seems that it effective.