“Who owns the information - owns the world” - this phrase does not lose its relevance. But navigating the information flow that hits us every day is not easy. It is even more difficult to process and assimilate this information. In order to facilitate this process, work with information must be systematized.
Instructions
Step 1
As a rule, when teaching, preparing various kinds of reports, articles, etc., most often you have to use written sources. It is easier to work with written information than with the one that you perceive by ear: you can process it slowly, without fear of missing or forgetting something.
Step 2
Focus on one written source. Once finished with it, proceed to work on the next one. This will allow you to concentrate and focus, which will make your work more efficient.
Step 3
Resist the temptation to emotionally evaluate what you read - it interferes with your work. Try to be objective and impartial.
Step 4
Best of all, information is memorized, structured in the form of diagrams, graphs, abstracts. If there are no ready-made ones, make them yourself in the process of working on the content of the article.
Step 5
Get a general idea of the text you are working on. Analyze whether you understand the topic, idea, main provisions of the information block.
Step 6
Asking questions about specific parts of the text will help you focus on key points. When you read it again, try to find answers to the questions posed. Make sure they are complete and expanded.
Step 7
Try to retell the material by looking at the outline (list of questions) you have drawn up, using diagrams and graphs, but without looking at the text.
Step 8
After 3-4 hours, open your plan again and consolidate what you have learned, trying to remember the content of each point as fully as possible.
Step 9
It is more difficult to perceive and process information perceived by ear. If you are attending a lecture or listening to a talk, take notes as you listen. After the lecture, try to reconstruct the speaker's line of reasoning. If you remembered some important points that sounded in the message, do not be too lazy to fix them as well. Further, you can work with the synopsis in the same way as with other written sources.
Step 10
The most difficult thing is to systematize and assimilate the information obtained in the process of communication, in the course of a live dialogue, but even this is not impossible.
Step 11
After the end of the conversation, analyze it, identify the topic and goals of the discussion. It will be great if you can isolate not only the obvious, but also the hidden purpose for which the conversation was started.
Step 12
Think about how the roles were assigned during the conversation and which of these roles you personally played. Think about what tasks you pursued while maintaining a dialogue.
Step 13
While assimilating any information, try to determine how valuable and useful it is for you - it is known that facts that are necessary and significant for a person remain in the memory much longer.
