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一、Liam Gorman

· Set your learning onto one topic at a time and focus on that.
· Make the learning as simple as possible- simplify your language and note down the information clearly in lists and small sentences.
· Keep control of your focus- don't procrastinate and sit in a calm area to take in maximum information, music and TV aren't really beneficial as background noise and neither are screaming children.

1、每次的學習集中在一個主題上，并專注于該主題。
2、使學習盡可能簡單，需要簡化你的語言，并用列表和小句子清楚地記下信息。
3、控制好你的注意力，不要拖延，坐在一個安靜的地方以接受最大程度的信息，把音樂作為背景雜音并不會帶來真正的好處，吵鬧的孩子也一樣。

· lixing back to other points, monitor your time by not spending too long on your work each day- just a couple of hours every week (or some more if you feel it to be necessary). Also, do not cram your studies into one night before the test or a day you have free, it won't work as much.
Hope this helps, I'll add more if I think of them. :)

13、回到其他方面，每天工作上花費點點時間用于檢查，每周只花幾個小時（如果你覺得有必要，可以多花一些時間）。另外，不要在考試前的一個晚上或者你有空的一天里補習功課，因為這樣做不會有多大效果。
希望這有幫助，如果我想到更多，我會補充的。
二、William Beteet III, TEDx Speaker, Published in TIME, Juris Doctor TEDx演講者，在《時代》雜志上發(fā)表過文章，法學博士

2. Immersion - It’s easier to learn something when you study nothing but that for weeks at a time. When everything you read, watch, write, and talk about is that subject. This is especially true for foreign languages, that’s why many of my friends who are polyglots recommend taking bootcamps and while living in a country that speaks that language. The intensity of that experience will leave a lasting imprint on your mind.

2.沉浸式學習——如果你一次只學習一個內(nèi)容并持續(xù)幾個星期，當你讀、看、寫和談?wù)摰囊磺卸际沁@個主題，學習起來會更容易。這對外語來說尤其如此，這就是為什么我身邊許多精通多種語言的朋友都建議在一個說外語的國家生活時參加訓練營。這種強烈的體驗會在你的腦海中留下持久的印記。

3. Scale Up - When you want to learn something new, start watching documentaries on the subject, write down words that you do not know and look up the definition. From there buy introductory books, read them, after every session write down what you remember in a Google Doc. Try to work the new themes, concepts and words into your conversations in everyday life. After you’ve a couple introductory text, start reading graduate papers on specific concepts that interest you. Do the same process of looking up words you don’t know. This process will allow you to sounds like a graduate student in a subject in just a couple weeks.

3.擴大規(guī)?！斈阆雽W習新的東西時，開始看關(guān)于這個主題的紀錄片，寫下你不知道的單詞，并查找定義。從那里買一些介紹性的書，讀一讀，每節(jié)課結(jié)束后把你記得的東西寫在谷歌文檔里。試著在日常生活中把新的主題、概念和詞匯融入你的對話中。在你讀了幾篇介紹性文章之后，開始閱讀你感興趣的特定概念的研究生論文。用同樣的方法查找你不知道的單詞。這個過程可以讓你在幾周內(nèi)聽上去像一個該專業(yè)的研究生。

4. PODCAST - Podcasts are the most underrated way to learn about a new subject. Human beings learned primarily from conversation for a hundred thousand years. The lecture style is a very new phenomena, and it is why we can have a difficult time staying engaged for extended periods of time. Podcast simulate that conversational style of learning, which just make it feel like you are listening to wiser people talk about something.

4.播客——播客是最被低估的學習一門新學科的方式。人類從交談中學習了十萬年。演講風格是一個非常新的現(xiàn)象，這就是為什么我們很難長時間保持專注。播客模擬了這種對話式的學習方式，只會讓你覺得你在聽更聰明的人談?wù)撃承┦虑橐粯印?br/>

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三、Martin Veil, J.D. Law, California Western School of Law (1997) 加州西部法學院法學博士（1997）

I distinctly remember reflecting on what had happened. Why was I able to go from not understanding anything, to suddenly understanding all of it and realizing what was incorrect? It was like my unconscious needed to be exposed to the material, then it needed time to create neural networks that would explain to my conscious mind what everything meant and what was incorrect to boot. Remember the movie the Matrix, where the characters would just download a program into consciousness that allowed them to suddenly understand and do things that previously were impossible. It is like that - but in slow motion. Really, I think reading and re-reading is just a way of allowing the unconscious time to do what is needed and letting the unconscious know that I was really serious about understanding this - so it needed to help me.

我清楚地記得對發(fā)生的事情進行反思。為什么我能從什么都不懂，到突然明白了所有的東西，并意識到什么是不正確的？就像我的潛意識需要暴露在物質(zhì)中，然后它需要時間來創(chuàng)建神經(jīng)網(wǎng)絡(luò)，向我的意識大腦解釋一切意味著什么，什么是不正確的。還記得電影《黑客帝國》中的角色只需在意識中下載一個程序，讓他們能夠突然理解并做到以前不可能做到的事情。就是這樣的，但僅限于慢動作中。真的，我認為閱讀和重讀只是一種方式，讓潛意識花時間去做需要做的事情，并讓潛意識知道我真的很認真地在理解這一點，所以我需要得到“它”的幫助。

So I started using this same technique in other areas that interested me - philosophy being a prime one. Read, re-read, re-read, re-read and question, re-read and write about all the things I agreed and disagreed with as well as identifying the holes in the writer’s ideas that would require more of my own thinking to fill. I found that it worked for everything, but here’s the deal, each new time it got easier.

所以我開始在我感興趣的其他領(lǐng)域使用同樣的方法——哲學是最重要的。閱讀，重新閱讀和提問，重新閱讀和寫出我同意和不同意的所有內(nèi)容，并找出作者的思想中的漏洞，這些漏洞需要我用自己更多的思維來填補。我發(fā)現(xiàn)這對任何事情都有效，但這很重要，每一次新的嘗試都變得更加容易。

Eventually, I understood most things on the first reading, not the fourth; my mind was working faster, but my conscious mind was still in a relaxed state. It seemed as if my unconscious had reconnected to my conscious mind and was using the connections to create the neural networks that were needed to understand, not just for the specific areas I was interested in learning, but neural networks that could be used more generally to understand everything more easily.

最終，我在第一次閱讀時可以理解大部分內(nèi)容，而不需要閱讀四次；我的大腦工作得更快了，但我的意識仍然處于放松狀態(tài)。似乎我的潛意識已經(jīng)重新連接到我的意識思維中，并利用這些聯(lián)系來創(chuàng)建需要理解的神經(jīng)網(wǎng)絡(luò)，不僅是針對我感興趣學習的特定領(lǐng)域，而且還可以更廣泛地用于更容易地理解一切。

Now, all this started happening when I was 18 years old. At that age, the mind is still being constructed and the structures could be altered with relative ease. A few years later, I graduated magna cum laude from law school, and I was a slacker because things came so much easier to me than they did at 18. But now, I’m much older.
Still, for a long time I have wanted to play guitar. Twelve years ago, my ex-wife gave me a guitar for my birthday, and strummed a little but didn’t really know what to do with it and so I gave it up. I didn’t take the time to learn, but, in the back of my mind, I still wanted to. So, a couple years ago, I picked up a guitar and started to learn how to play, “House of the Rising Sun.” There are a fair number of chords in the song and so there are a lot of chord changes. It was a good song to learn with, as it would require me to learn a lot of chords and how to switch between them, and I liked the song because I used to sing it all the time in karaoke.

現(xiàn)在，這一切都發(fā)生在我18歲的時候。在那個年齡，思維仍在構(gòu)建中，結(jié)構(gòu)可以相對容易地改變。幾年后，我以優(yōu)異的成績從法學院畢業(yè)，那時我比較懶惰，因為事情對我來說比18歲時容易得多。但現(xiàn)在，我年紀更大了。
不過，很長一段時間以來我一直想彈吉他。12年前，我前妻在我生日時送給我一把吉他，彈了幾下，但不知道該怎么用，所以我放棄了。我沒有花時間去學習，但是，在我的腦海里，我還是想學。所以，幾年前，我拿起一把吉他，開始學習如何彈奏《日升之屋》。這首歌中有相當數(shù)量的和弦，因此有很多和弦的變化。這是一首很值得學的歌，因為它需要我學習很多和弦以及如何在它們之間切換，而且我喜歡這首歌，因為我以前總是在卡拉OK里唱它。

Now, applying what I said before, you would think that all of the intellectual work I have done in the past would help me with learning the guitar, but this is not the case. I have never learned anything about details of music, nothing I have done in life has involved intricate fine motor skills in my hands, and though I have sung most of my life, playing an instrument is very different than singing. So the neural networks I have built over the course of my life are not the right ones for playing a guitar - in fact, I kind of feel like the ones I have built interfere with playing a musical instrument, so I was giving my unconscious a lot of work to do if I really wanted to learn to play guitar.

現(xiàn)在，按照我之前所說的，你會認為我過去所做的所有智力工作都會幫助我學習吉他，但事實并非如此。我從來沒有學過音樂的任何細節(jié)，我在生活中所做的任何事都沒有涉及到我手上復(fù)雜的精細運動技能，雖然我大部分時間都在唱歌，但演奏樂器與唱歌有很大的不同。所以，我一生中建立的神經(jīng)網(wǎng)絡(luò)并不是合適彈吉他的神經(jīng)網(wǎng)絡(luò)。事實上，我覺得我建立的神經(jīng)網(wǎng)絡(luò)會干擾樂器的演奏，所以如果我真的想學彈吉他，我在我的潛意識上還有很多工作要做。

So, as I did with reading when I was younger, I started playing House of the Rising Sun, over and over and over and over and over and over. Yes, for almost a year, it was all I did (driving everyone crazy) and I had lots of free time to work on it, but it took a lot of time to build the neural networks; networks that likely had to be built around what I had built using my mind on thinking that was very different than what is needed to play music. My fingers didn’t want to do what I wanted them to do, and I felt like I was constantly stumbling - like my thoughts would get in the way of the natural movement of my fingers. I had to learn how not to think or analyze consciously when I played - a difficult task for someone like me who thinks all the time. I am nearly three years in now, and I am only just learning to relax my conscious mind while my fingers are moving across the strings, but now things are finally coming more quickly. Moreover, as soon as my mind could connect the dots with things I already understood, it did those things for me which has encouraged me to stick with it, despite the difficulties - the unconscious is always trying to encourage our creativity - it doesn’t want us to give up!

所以，就像我小時候讀書一樣，我開始彈奏《日升之屋》，一遍又一遍，一遍又一遍。是的，在將近一年的時間里，這就是我所做的一切（讓每個人都抓狂），我有很多空閑時間去做這件事，但是建立神經(jīng)網(wǎng)絡(luò)卻花了很多時間；這些網(wǎng)絡(luò)可能必須圍繞我的思維能力而建立，而我的思維方式與演奏音樂所需要的完全不同。我的手指不想做我想讓他們做的事情，我覺得我總是在不斷被阻礙——好像我的想法會妨礙我手指的自然移動。當我演奏時，我必須學會如何有意識地思考和分析——對于像我這樣一直在思考的人來說，這是一項艱巨的任務(wù)。現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)快三年了，我只是在學習在我的手指在琴弦上移動的同時放松我的意識，但現(xiàn)在事情終進展得更快了。而且，一旦我的大腦能把這些點點滴滴的東西和我已經(jīng)理解的事情聯(lián)系起來，它為我做的那些事情就可以鼓勵我堅持下去，盡管困難重重，但潛意識總是在激發(fā)我們的創(chuàng)造力，它不想讓我們放棄！

I have been writing and reading poetry for most of my life. I didn’t have any plans to write my own songs. I had written one song when I was in my twenties, but didn’t know how to create the music for it, so it had languished, though I still remembered the song. But songwriting was not really on my radar with guitar, I just wanted to play and instrument and maybe do some covers at open mic…or so I thought. Once, I was at the point that I could begin to string together chords, I felt the urge to begin songwriting and see if I could use my new understanding of music to create the music for the lyrics I wrote. In the last year and a half, I have written almost thirty songs. I have the rudimentary chords and melodies worked out for over ten of them and it keeps getting easier, just like it kept getting easier when I was reading and thinking about psychology and philosophy. I don’t know what is going to happen next musically, but it is exciting as hell to see what my mind can teach me when I keep working at it.
Maybe you know the Eddie Vedder song, Guaranteed - “A mind full of questions and a teacher in my soul….” I think he is talking about what I am talking about here. Almost everyone gives up in life. They have heard they aren’t good enough, so they never try and because they never try they never learn that being good enough is about relaxing that conscious chatter; the conscious mind is impatient and learning to let consciousness slow down to allow the process to take as long as it takes is the key to ultimately thinking faster.

我一生中大部分時間都在寫詩和讀詩。我沒打算創(chuàng)作我自己的歌。我20多歲的時候?qū)戇^一首歌，但不知道如何為它譜曲，所以這首歌已經(jīng)停滯不前，盡管我還記得那首歌。但歌曲創(chuàng)作并不是我關(guān)注吉他的原因，我只是想彈奏和演奏樂器，也許在開放式麥克風上做一些翻唱等等，我是這么想的。有一次，當我可以開始把和弦串起來的時候，我就有了開始寫歌的沖動，看看能不能用我對音樂的新理解來為我寫的歌詞創(chuàng)作音樂。在過去的一年半里，我寫了將近三十首歌。我已經(jīng)為其中的10多首曲子編出了最基本的和弦和旋律，而且變得越來越容易，就像我閱讀和思考心理學和哲學時一樣。我不知道下一步在音樂上會發(fā)生什么，但當我繼續(xù)努力的時候，看到我的意識能教給我什么，真是太令人興奮了。
也許你知道艾迪·維達的歌《Guaranteed》， “腦中充滿了疑問，靈魂深處已有指引…”我想他講的就是我在這里所說的。幾乎每個人都在生活中放棄。他們聽說自己不夠好，所以他們從不嘗試，因為他們從來沒有嘗試過，所以他們永遠不會明白，做得足夠好就意味著放松有意識的閑聊；有意識的頭腦是不耐煩的，學會讓意識放慢，讓這個過程持續(xù)很長時間，這是最終加快思考速度的關(guān)鍵。

Of course, there are people who are naturally gifted and I do not expect that I will ever play guitar like Joe Satriani, or my 14 year old stepson or, in all likelihood, my soon to be 9 year old son who is quickly learning the violin. But for me, in terms of music, I am thinking more quickly now and new things keep happening. For the longest time, I have been unable to play any guitar except a classical. The classical strings are not as hard on my fingers and the distance between the strings is wider, so my fingers, which are relatively thick from working out with weights my whole life, were less likely to buzz the other strings when I use the classical. Last night, on a lark, I picked up my Celebrity Ovation steel string guitar that has been sitting unplayed for close to a year. I could play it.

當然，有些人天生就有天賦，我也不指望我會像喬·塞奇尼那樣彈吉他，也不會像我14歲的繼子那樣，或者很可能是我即將9歲的兒子那樣，他很快就學會了小提琴。但對我來說，在音樂方面，我現(xiàn)在思考得更快了，新事物也在不斷發(fā)生。很長一段時間以來，除了古典吉他，我什么吉他都不會彈。古典琴弦對我的手指要求不需要那么硬，琴弦之間的距離也比較寬，因為我一生都在練習重量，所以在我使用古典琴弦時，手指就不太可能敲擊其他琴弦。昨晚，隨便鬧著玩，我拿起了我的Celebrity Ovation鋼弦吉他，這把吉他已經(jīng)放了將近一年了。我發(fā)現(xiàn)可以彈奏它。

I could play it better than my classical because my fingering had become more precise and the strings, being closer together were easier to reach. I cannot tell you how exciting it was for me to realize I could play that damn steel string now. It sounds better with the songs I have written and it is a better rhythm instrument to sing with than the classical because the extended resonating tone makes it seem fuller than the classical. My 14 year old was excited too because now, when we play together with him playing lead, he can use the steel string which he prefers over the classical - likely for the same reasons I just mentioned.
There are no wormholes to faster thinking. You have to build the foundation with patience and perseverance and then, almost out of nowhere, you will find yourself thinking more quickly and - much more importantly - more deeply.

我用它可以演奏得比我的古典吉他好，因為我的指法變得更加精確，而且更緊密的琴弦更容易觸及。我無法告訴你，我現(xiàn)在能彈奏那該死的鋼弦，這對我來說是多么激動。用它來演奏我寫的歌聽起來更好，比起古吉他，它是一種更好的節(jié)奏樂器，因為擴展的共鳴音調(diào)使它聽起來比古典吉他更飽滿。我14歲的兒子也很興奮，因為現(xiàn)在，當我們和他一起演奏時，他可以使用自己喜歡的鋼弦吉他而不是古典吉他，可能是出于我剛才提到的相同原因。
沒有蟲洞可以加快思維速度。您必須以耐心和毅力來建立基礎(chǔ)，然后，幾乎在任何方面，你會發(fā)現(xiàn)自己思考得更快，更重要的是思考得更為深入。