Reading: Grasp the Meaning
Do you need to read again and again before you get it?
Let’s talk about how to get the new content connected with what you already know. If you’re neurodiverse, often learning things one at a time is problematic. There’s nowhere to catch the new ideas, nowhere to hold them, no way to really remember what’s going on.
You may learn best if you can connect new information to what you already know. So here’s how to go about it. It’s called active learning.
Say you’re about to read an article. Look at the title. Look at the header line. Think about what you already know about the topic.
Make a mind map if you like mind maps, or bullet points if you prefer those. Or maybe even draw a picture about everything you already know about that topic.
If you can, add in things that have personal meaning to you, things that trigger emotion, any kind of emotion, because emotion is good glue.
Now think of three things you’d hope to learn in the article, and jot those down as three questions. Any questions work as hooks. If you can’t think of good ones try who, what, where and when.
Now read the article. Perhaps it answered your questions. Add what you’ve learned to your mind map or bullets.
This technique often makes a big difference.
