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#+title: Understanding comes first from memory
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#+date: "2021-05-14 11:48:20 +08:00"
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#+date_modified: "2022-06-19 13:10:24 +08:00"
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#+language: en
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Rote learning is often considered to be an inferior method of understanding a concept.
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It is often underestimated.
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You may have often hear something along the lines of "I don't want to memorize a bunch of facts but rather understand the process." or "Knowing something is different from understanding something.";
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it is rooted from an experience of bad teaching thus we associate memorizing a bunch of facts as bad.
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Knowing the related things — or memorizing a bunch of facts — is a good way to start learning a concept.
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With those things in mind, you can then combine the ideas, [[id:1e135aee-0464-4756-9f55-bbf12afe8254][Chunking]] them, and innovate new ones.
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You cannot build upon more ideas if you don't know what those ideas are in the first place.
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- You cannot know how to read and write traditional music notation if you don't want to memorize the order of the notes or the meaning of various symbols.
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You can't put your finger why Undertale's music ties altogether with familiarity in its entire soundtrack or why [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdDeufxfJeE][Baka Mitai sounds very good]].
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- Don't expect to have a good time comprehending derivatives if you don't know how to get the missing values from a system of equations or don't know what is a function.
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- You cannot know what makes a good film if you cannot bother with the basics of 180 rule and solely focusing on understanding film techniques and comparing them from other films.
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From personal experience, I used to not like this rote method of learning.
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After some reflection, I think I got the reason: lack of understanding especially with the basics.
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Remember that [[id:114b7874-6a20-49c8-be2c-46970c7110dc][Information is only acquired when you try to make sense of it]].
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The problem could be the lack of time understanding it.
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For one solution, see how my perspective on [[id:af0ccefe-c671-47bf-94f7-62243c805745][Skill-building]].
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However, once you applied and understood a topic, this could lead to another perspective into looking at the process of understanding.
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That [[id:47d78835-a519-4e61-b735-858f3eaa678c][Understanding doesn't have to come from memory]].
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