Quora精选：学霸们有什么特殊的学习技巧？

I am smart but a slow learner, I have seen people who learn things quickly have a different approach to new things and a different attitude but I can't clearly tell these things apart. Can you?

我很聪明，但学的很慢。我见过一些人，他们学起东西来非常快，对待新知识有自己独特的技巧和态度。但是我区分不了，你可以吗？

Answered by Will Stern

Will Sern的回复：

I've been in the web development industry for 16 years and have had to learn countless new technologies. I've also been a guitar, graphic design & video editing teacher for the better part of 2 decades. As a result, I've learned some very efficient ways to help people learn new things quickly:

我从事网页开发工作长达16年，不得不学习无数的新技术。这20年来的大部分时间里，我还教人弹吉他、做平面设计和编辑视频。因此我学到了一些十分有效的方法，能帮助大家快速学习新事物。

Drown your way to swimming.

学习要破釜沉舟。

Don't start at the bottom, start at the top. Find the very best person in the field and follow what they say. If you don't understand their words because they're over your head. Listen to them more - Google their terminologies - until you do understand the world they live in. Compare your work to the best on earth, not to your peers.

不要从底层出发，要从最顶端开始。找到你所在领域最优秀的人，关注他们说了什么。如果因为他们的层次太高，你不能理解他们的话，那就多听听他们是怎么说的，上谷歌（Google）搜一下他们说的专业术语，直到你真的能够理解他们的世界。跟世界上最出色的人作比较，而不是你的同侪。

Put yourself in a place that's way over your head. Apply for a job that you probably won't get ... The failed interview will provide invaluable information as to what people value on the playing field you want to be on.

让自己处于一种远远超出你能力范围的环境，找一份你很可能应聘不上的工作……失败的面试经历能让你获得非常宝贵的信息，让你了解在你想进入的领域中，人们都看重些什么。

"Play with the big boys" any chance you get. Get addicted to the feeling of being the worst on the team. If you become the best, find a new place to work where you aren't anymore.

抓住一切可以和大牛接触的机会。迷上做“凤尾”的感觉。如果你成了最棒的那个，那就跳槽去一个你不再是最优秀的新环境工作。

Refuse to learn without doing.

切忌光学不做。

Don't read a blog on how to code without hand-coding/copying every example.

不要光读教你如何写代码的博客，而要自己动手敲代码，或者模仿其中的范例。

If you listen to a lecture, take unnecessarily complex notes—this will lock in information.

听讲座的时候，笔记要尽可能详实——这能帮助你牢记信息。

Edit: Research shows that taking more selective notes causes you to process the information and retain it better: Taking Notes by Hand Benefits Recall, Researchers Find

注：研究表明，有选择性地做更多笔记能促使你的大脑处理信息并记得更牢。（来源：研究发现，动手做笔记有助于回忆）

Start a blog. Disseminate the valuable information you're learning to others.

开始写博客。把你正在学习的有价值的信息传播给其他人。

The simple act of teaching will cause you to process the knowledge to a level of simplicity that greatly increases your understanding. Plus, any human interaction surrounding the knowledge - comments, arguments, corrections, will cause it to lock-in deeper into your memory.

教别人能帮你整合所学，由繁化简，从而更好地理解所学知识。此外，任何与这些知识点相关的人际互动——评论、辩论、指正，都会加深你的记忆。

Practice shorter, but more frequently rather than longer, but less frequently.

短时间、高频率地练习，而不是反之。

A guitar student who practices 10 minutes every day will do far better than one who plays 2 hours once a week. The latter will simply keep re-learning much of the same thing each week, forgetting it by the next week. Your brain remembers the first and last things the most, so make sure to recap each "learning session" with the most important things you want to remember.

每天练十分钟吉他的学生，弹得会比每周练两个小时的学生好很多。后者只是每周重复学习大致相同的内容，然后下周又忘了。你的大脑对第一件事和最后一件事的印象最深刻，所以一定要简要回顾每个“学习阶段”中的要点。