How to Learn Well
The best way to learn is to push yourself to learn the material and enjoy the struggle! If for example, you are able to come up with the answers quickly, this is not because you are super smart, but because you have had the relevant experience. Sorry but we don't believe in genius. If you are not able to come up with answers quickly, this just means that you have not had the experience and thus you need to build it. So that is all that there is to it. Don't be harsh on yourself in you are not doing as well as you expected. Simply do your work to the best that you can and enjoy the process of failing and learning. If you find that the material easy and you enjoy it, that is great. You are lucky! If you don't enjoy it, then you should probably move on to the next step on your path, so see about doing that. We would recommend: 1) taking notes (the physical action of taking notes often aids learning), 2) as you read the course notes, write down a list of questions and try to solve them, 3) develop a habit of formulating variants of exercises and homeworks that you are given and solving them and coming up with new questions, 4) think about and research the questions that you may have by yourself and try to find the answers on your own (for example for 24 hours), before talking to your friends and course staff. Of course, everyone learns in a different way, but if you feel that you are having trouble learning in this course, we will point you here first.
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