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How to Learn Effectively and Efficiently

Do you ever feel like you have learned a lot but all you have learned seem useless? If you answer yes, don't be disappointed. There are many people out there who feel the same. They have read a lot, exercised so many times, and done whatever it takes but they feel that their brain is still empty. Exactly similar to what you feel, right? So, what's wrong with your and their learning?

Well, actually nothing is wrong. You and they have done the correct thing namely learning or excercising. The only thing which is probably not so right is the effectiveness and efficiency of your learning. So what and how is effective and efficient learning? Well, continue reading this article to know the answer.

Something is said to be effective if it accomplishes what it is intended to accomplish. If your plumb is leaked, for example, and you want to fix it, the your fixing effort is said to be effective when the leakage is gone no matter how much money or resource or energy you spend. As long as the leakage is successfully fixed, then you have done the fixing effectively.

Unfortunately, effectiveness alone is not enough. You need another thing namely efficiency. Since, just like what have been described above, to do some thing effectively sometimes results in wasting of energy, money, or resources. And I believe you don't want to do that. That is why you need efficiency in everything you do. So what is efficiency? Here it is.

Something is said to be efficient if it takes the minimum resources to gain the most result. Related to the plumb leakage case above, the fixing effort is said to be efficient if it takes the minimum cost, energy, or resources but with highest success of leakage fixing. Therefore, replacing the whole old pipe with the new one is not the most efficient effort even though this may result in success in leakage fixing. Perhaps, the most efficient effort would be to cover the leaked pipe with glue.

So, how about effective and efficient learning? To know the answer, please be patient and stay tuned in this blog cause I will discuss that elaborately in the next article. Bye for now...

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