How to solve a difficult problem or How to understand a difficult concept

 Repetition is the key

Understanding a difficult concept or any concept:

Say you need 25 minutes to understand a particular concept for which you have to read say 5 pages, then a much better way to utilize those 25 minutes would be to split those 25 minutes into 3 stages, first 2 stages of 10 minutes and last stage of 5 mins. 

Stage 1: 

10 minutes: Set a timer for 10 mins and read very fastly those 5 pages, our aim is to get a surface level understanding of what is being said.

Stage 2: 

10 minutes: Reread those 5 pages but now focus on what you did not understand and read those paragraphs well, this time you will get most of what has been written


Stage 3: 

5 minutes: now focus on the very difficult portion that you could not get and read it once try to understand it in a diferent way 


Bonus Stage 4:

Search difficult topic on google, YT, any other website, ask your teacher, friends. The point is to get help on that topic.


Now lets see, what will happen if you just start to simply read those 5 pages for 25 minutes or worse without any time limit:
First 2 pages  even though they do not contain much information will  take you 10 - 15 minutes to finish. 

Now you will go to page number 3, which actually contains the most difficult portion, you will get stuck in trying to understand page number 3, you will spend 15 mins alone on page number 3 and there are high chances that you will still not understand whats written on that topic, now you are absolutely frustrated because you not only spent 15 mins on page that you coudn't even understand moreover you have already taken 30 minutes for a task you decided to finish in 25 minutes and you are just on page number 3 (which you didn't even understand). 

Now in the depths of despair, and underconfident on your IQ you giveup the task of reading those 5 pages saying to yourself that "I'm not smart enought".

You repeat this process the next and get the same frustrating result and if you do this enough number of times you might actually  give up on studying that subject entirely until exam saying "I'm not made for this field, should have taken arts after 10th std".

The only thing that you had to do was to devide that reading into chunks, and being ok with not understanding some topic for a few days.

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