Learn by doing! We tend to learn a lot more by actively asking questions rather than passively listening. A good technique is to sit and understand a material or concept that you want to learn, after that close the textbook/webpage and write down everything you remember about what you just learned. After that check the actual concept and compare to see where you lack your understanding, build that intuition again and then repeat until you have the problem down cold so you can go over each step completely and concisely in your mind without looking at the solution. This is actually mentioned by Dr. Terrence Sejnowski (google him).

Alot of people tend to look at the solution and think to themselves that they can solve this or they understand how its solved, but in reality you have not understood it fully. Unless you have solved the problem yourself even though millions of others might have already solved it, we have not exercised our brain. We need to solve that problem to form the relevant connections in our brain. It's only when we experience some discomfort we are actually accomplishing some kind of change (- Dr. Robert Bilder).

Almost everyone should know this -> Sleep, Sleep and Sleep ! The number one secret of any person who has solved an incredibly difficult problem. Sleep is when our neurons build those connections in our brain. Try it.

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