The Science of Self-Learning: How to Teach Yourself Anything, Learn More in Less Time, and Direct Your Own Education (Learning how to Learn Book 1)

by Peter Hollins

level, you will already be leaps ahead of others. Use the survey component to form an outline of what you’ll learn. In a sense, it’s more like you’re plotting out a metaphorical “book” for yourself. You want to form a general outline of what you’re going to learn. Since you’re studying this on your own, there might be a few gaps in what you think you’ll need to know. So in this phase, you’ll want to determine exactly what you want to become knowledgeable about, as specifically as you can make it. For example, if you want to learn all about psychology, that’s going to take a significant amount of time. It won’t happen in one shot. You’d want to specify it a little more: the early history of psychoanalysis, the works of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, sports psychology, developmental psychology—the possibilities are plenty.