Before asking the question "How to learn to process information?", You should decide: what or why it needs to be processed. Oddly enough, but even background viewing of television shows, and even more so zapping (frequent channel switching) is also information processing. Apparently, it’s worth understanding its meaningfulness.
Instruction manual
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Processing information is the assimilation, storage and storage of it in such a way that it is convenient to use. Sherlock Holmes’s words fit perfectly here: “… the human brain is like a small empty attic that you can arrange as you like. A fool will drag any junk that comes under your arm and there’s nowhere to put useful, necessary things …” Pragmatic extremes to nothing, but the principle - not to litter - should become fundamental for you.
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It is clear that efforts should be made to obtain a result. Out of efforts, perseverance and the ability to hold attention are crucial. Despite the apparent lightness, concentration in an adult requires strong motivation. The school lacked responsibilities (for teachers, parents) and fear of poor grades. Outside and even more so after school and university, you have to convince yourself of the need. Here, all the means are good: estimated earnings, victory in disputes, the opportunity to show oneself on the best side. Installation "I need this for …" with clearly expressed benefits will not let you relax.
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To read or watch the studied materials you need to completely, if necessary, for example, significant volumes, split into fragments that you are able to "digest". Incomprehensible places need not to be missed, but repeated until they become clear. However, it is important to remember the effect of satiation - this is when words (terms) or phrases cease to be perceived by consciousness and lose their meaning from frequent use. Therefore, you need to repeat the incomprehensible not in a row, but returning to it after short breaks. In difficult cases, do not be lazy to refer to directories and dictionaries.
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It is especially important to learn to separate the actual from the irrelevant. The easiest way is to constantly correlate goals and means. If you intend to learn more about how the team works, about the interaction of leaders and subordinates and the resolution of conflict situations, it is hardly necessary to pay attention to the color of the cover of some "Tutorial for Beginning Leaders".
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The last step for successfully processing the information received in different methods is usually called "binding". You constantly use the Internet, which means you have an idea of hyperlinks. Take Wikipedia at least. Already from the first paragraph of the article "Information" you can go to articles on computer science, geometry and axiomatics. In the same way, you need to organize the work of your consciousness, only relationships, in addition to conceptual ones, can be emotional. Read about manufacturing conflicts? Try on the described situations on yourself, do not disdain even imaginary experience.
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Constant comparison and juxtaposition of the studied data will teach you to analyze, and therefore properly organize the subsequent storage of information that you can easily retrieve, as from a warehouse, as you update.
Useful advice
The computer is extremely convenient, but if you are not 12-14 years old, that is, you are not a teenager of the 2000s, then manual writing skills will be more useful than typing skills on the keyboard. Take a pen or pencil and mark difficult places, write down the rules, make notes in the fields and bookmarks, make lists of important and secondary matters. Thanks to the participation of visual and mechanical memory, memorization and analysis will be greatly simplified.
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