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20220526 - Preface 20220527 - 1. Learning Is Misunderstood Mastery requires both the possession of ready knowledge and the conceptual understanding of how to use it. p18 Mastery contains two stage. Learn and memorize knowledge, and fully understand it, bit by bit. Retrieval - testing - interrupts forgetting. p20 Learning is an interactive process that requires that we revisit what we have learned earlier and continually update it and connect it with new knowledge. p21 While studying, is our system 1 or system 2 working? 20220528 - 2. To Learn, Retrieve Arrange more quizzes in the class remind the students to spend more time preparing for those quizzes Students would also pay more attention during the class time, because they know the incoming quizzes are waiting for them. I believe this is another reason that "test" helps students to learn. So far, my impression is, the more attention we pay during study, the more connections we make with existing memory, the more we can memo...

20220531 - The Hallmarks of Trauma ... 5 This book is deeper than I thought. Why our relationship with money is based on traumatic experience? The three categories of trauma are all illusion. We need to be brave to face them, and need the first principle to recognize them. Collective trauma and epigenetic trauma are more like meme to me. For example, eat as much calories as possible, or avoid standing out to express ourselves. Our brain is big data analyzer. Trauma is some data input which is so strong that it changed an important part of the whole big data set, so it affects us for long time even the environment had back to normal quickly. 20220531 - The World According to Quantum Physics ... 10 Why strong social network makes people happy? In prehistory time, only the people with strong social network could survive. 20220531 - Our Financial Context ... 12 How to balance the conscience with gap in themselves and others? That could be a real challenge to affluent people. Others nee...