The idea of preparing and structuring your learning in a logical way beforehand comes up a lot in accelerated learning circles. In his accelerated learning book disguised as a cookbook, The 4-Hour Chef, Tim Ferriss shares his framework for preparing to learn anything faster. It goes like this: Deconstruction: How small can I break things down into their basic units of learning, such as individual vocabulary words or grammatical rules? Selection: What are the 20 percent of those units that will give me 80 percent of the benefits (Pareto’s Principle)? Sequencing: What is the best order in which
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