It’s less like you intellectually remember something, and more like you feel it. True memorization is more like developing intuition. Secondly, intuition – if you create a high enough level system, you will be able to intuit the system and it becomes again like the organic process. But, this requires time and consistency of action. So perhaps your system will take 2 hours instead of 3 hours and then the system wins hands-down. One, practice – if you practice a system, you will become more efficient at its use and being able to flow through the stages of a system. There are two things that can modify this to make systematization more efficient. On average, if you follow a system you come out at least the same (following the assumptions laid out above). So it’s a bit of a gamble to just try without a system – though success can occur organically. However, if all does not go well, and the project takes 4 hours, you would have been better off with the process-focused methodology. That is to say, for project X, if it would take 2 hours to complete if all goes well, or 3 hours if you follow a rigorous linear process, the 2 hours is preferable. This is my observation rather than Cal’s statement, but it seems like the way it works is not that these processes actually take less time, but they are more efficient in the long-term because they are less likely to falter. ![]() ![]() Interesting read, but one thing that struck me was that this didn’t describe a actually significant decrease in the amount of time required for the learning process (studying, taking tests or notes, writing/presenting). I recently finished How to Become a Straight-A Student, by Cal Newport, whose Study Hacks blog I’ve been a fan of for some time. The more I work to stay aware of what it is I am doing, the more I realize how important it is to keep track of how much time activities take, how long you allot for them (that is, you must limit the amount of time you will allow things to take – à la Parkinson’s law, and you must realize what the impact is of the time taken on other activities, specifically scarcity of future available resources – time or willpower.
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