Anonymous at Sun, 15 Sep 2024 12:44:13 UTC No. 16381783

1. We're all connected by the moon
2. Use this in the best way you can

Anonymous at Sun, 15 Sep 2024 12:46:32 UTC No. 16381785

Irregardless.

Anonymous at Sun, 15 Sep 2024 12:57:50 UTC No. 16381794

>>16381782
>read texts about difficult topic
>suddenly difficult topic is not so difficult anymore
Feels good having a high IQ.

Anonymous at Sun, 15 Sep 2024 13:07:04 UTC No. 16381803

Suicide until high IQ

Anonymous at Sun, 15 Sep 2024 13:43:05 UTC No. 16381836

the 3 laws of thought

Anonymous at Sun, 15 Sep 2024 14:12:15 UTC No. 16381866

>>16381794
There's also the /pol/ method: If I can't understand it, it's fake.

Anonymous at Sun, 15 Sep 2024 14:26:20 UTC No. 16381887

>>16381782
Ask someone to explain it to you as if you’re 7. If they can’t, they don’t understand it themselves. If they’re an “expert” you can disregard it completely.

Anonymous at Sun, 15 Sep 2024 14:26:57 UTC No. 16381888

>>16381887
What's your BMI and math background?

Anonymous at Sun, 15 Sep 2024 14:39:35 UTC No. 16381902

>>16381888
Explain BMI to me as if I was 7.

Anonymous at Sun, 15 Sep 2024 14:40:17 UTC No. 16381904

Read and engage. Ask yourself questions about the material and actively use your resources to answer those questions. Assuming you're facing something so difficult that passively reading material isn't clarifiying, the next step is active reading. Imagine explaining it to someone else, think of all the dumb questions they might ask and still answer them anyways.

Also in age of internet, you have great advantage of easily obtaining alternate resources. Many concepts I had difficulty with from 1 textbook, then I'd find 2 or 3 other textbooks and read their descriptions. Either one of them made sense, or else the repetition of seeing it worded in multiple different ways made it finally click. Do practice problems and especially make your own open ended questions and answer them. If you have a friend or family member, explain the idea to them, this has a great benefit because laymen will ask surprising questions that make you actually strain your understanding. Even if your response is just "this concept doesnt apply here", explain WHY. For example, imagine someone asked you "So can we take the derivative of a box of pizza?" Explain why that doesnt make sense. ("Well it's about a rate of change") or else reinterpret the question in a way that is more enlightening ("however we could use the methods to calculate the change of area as one side of the box increases/decreases")

Anonymous at Sun, 15 Sep 2024 14:44:08 UTC No. 16381911

>>16381904
> the repetition of seeing it worded in multiple different ways made it finally click.

You can’t actually learn anything until the third time through. The first time you’re just trying to understand the language. The second you’re trying to apply your new vocabulary to the concepts. It’s only after the third time that you can begin to understand the concept itself.

This also explains our failing school system. It attempts to cover too many concepts in too short of time this covering everything superficially. Also, there’s no vocabulary drills any longer.

Anonymous at Sun, 15 Sep 2024 14:51:11 UTC No. 16381923

>>16381782
Actually making sure I do not delve in something very far from my current understanding. Most of the brainlets who write here saying nothing makes sense, when they don't even understand elementary logic and mathematics.

Remember anon, no topic is inherently difficult, everything follows from other things in a logical flow, and you should make sure you have no gaps in your knowledge of the preliminaries for each subject. Learning new things can be challenging but if your motivation is in the right place (ie you sincerely want to understand something, and not learn it because it has a "difficult" reputation) you will get there eventually and with enough effort.

Anonymous at Sun, 15 Sep 2024 14:52:36 UTC No. 16381924

>>16381866
you mean the /sci/ method

Anonymous at Sun, 15 Sep 2024 14:53:37 UTC No. 16381926

>>16381923
This is true but also you gotta be wary of the trap of never progressing because you spend too much time on the prerequisites.

You probably don't need to read every last page of those 1200 page precalculus books to start learning calculus, but I remember certainly trying to do just that.

Anonymous at Sun, 15 Sep 2024 15:04:22 UTC No. 16381940

>>16381911
this is not science lol you are just saying bs, hi iq people just intuit it the first time thru

Anonymous at Sun, 15 Sep 2024 15:34:37 UTC No. 16381983

>>16381926
>You probably don't need to read every last page of those 1200 page precalculus books

Of course you don't. I am taking as a granted that you can actually evaluate yourself on some level. Solving 50 exercises that are just "plug this into this and get that" does not necessarily mean that you understand what you are doing. You should be able to at least tell what you don't understand/your weak points/what seems shady on a subject. That is if your interest is to indeed learn it and being honest with yourself. Often people disregard details here and there but these details can pile up, so when you move to some other topic and need to apply it (eg calculus) they have a hard time and blame the new topic. If you feel like you spend too much time, you should take a step back and try to grasp the bigger picture and core ideas.

Anonymous at Sun, 15 Sep 2024 16:38:11 UTC No. 16382065

>>16381782
Two or three 8-minute youtube videos will make anyone an expert. Thank you, Internet. You are so smart.

Garrote at Sun, 15 Sep 2024 16:41:51 UTC No. 16382068

Biokinesis to get smarter.

Raphael at Mon, 16 Sep 2024 22:32:53 UTC No. 16383866

>>16381782
ChatGPT inductive reasoning narrowing down till it agrees with me works every time

Anonymous at Mon, 16 Sep 2024 22:36:17 UTC No. 16383872

>>16383866
>til it agrees with me
if that's how you approach the scientific method, perhaps you must return to the foundations of thought and reasoning.

Anonymous at Mon, 16 Sep 2024 22:58:27 UTC No. 16383904

Study a lot and occasionally do study groups with people who are at a lower level than me so I have to explain it really simply.

Anonymous at Mon, 16 Sep 2024 23:00:51 UTC No. 16383910

>>16381782
like learning a song on a musical instrument, studying and practicing over and over again until it sinks in.

Anonymous at Tue, 17 Sep 2024 02:14:35 UTC No. 16384074

>>16381924
it’s more like
>if I can’t understand something, I’ll pretend like I do

Anonymous at Tue, 17 Sep 2024 10:17:52 UTC No. 16384450

>>16384074
sure anon, cope harder, its easier than putting effort on something. Most of the people who post here are textbook degfinitions of Dunning-Kruger

Constanze !rfs5.AkaKE at Tue, 17 Sep 2024 12:15:06 UTC No. 16384544

>>16381782
I study until I physically cant, once I did 3 days no sleep when studying topology, I eventually passed out due to tireness, but I was able to learn each topic