2021-02-15, 11:45, Monday

Tensor analysis is beautiful, but heave georgian accent of my professor kinda ruins the mood.

Jokes aside, I happened to listen to some random podcast wth Ali Abdaal (yes, I am a productivity nerd; link is https://youtu.be/a28SdBZNIOc) and there was a very important concept: learning happens not through repeated exposure, but through repeated recall. The book mentioned was “make it stick”, although I never read it.

There was an extreme approach to this problem: don’t write notes, write questions to test yourself. This is extreme and doesn’t work for math-heavy subjects, but writing questions separately is, indeed, a good idea. Especially for chemistry-related subjects that require memorization along with problem-solving skills.