Learn or leave the market

you 
need to get into the right 
mindset. Sit back and relax, 
cover your eyes with your 
hands, and take a deep breath. 
Imagine something pleasant, 
such as a nice dinner you will 
reward yourself with after your 
presentation.
Tell yourself that everyone 
around you is your friend 
and they will all support you. 
They are not your enemies. 
It’s OK to be afraid of something 
or not to know every little thing.
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 Chapter 3. Self-education And How to Organize It.
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HOW TO CREATE
YOUR SELF- EDUCATION SYSTEM
Your personal development must be systematic for it to be effective. 
You need to determine your learning strategy in advance. Self-educa-
tion systems also include methods for remembering useful information 
and screening out everything that is irrelevant. That is why a systematic 
approach is so important. The sooner you start following this plan, the 
quicker you will feel the practical benefits of self-education.
You may have already attempted to learn something by yourself, such 
as a foreign language. You probably started doing it on an impulse, 
without giving it a serious thought. That is why you perhaps gave it up 
just as quickly and abrup tly. You had no clear plan or strategy, just 
some free time and a downloaded app. The problem is that you lacked 
a proper system.
Any self-education system should be based on four principles:
▶
Regular revision  
(to better absorb information)
▶
Associations  
(to simplify the process of learning new material).
▶
Filtering
(to learn only the information that is actually useful, rather than 
wasting your efforts on “mental junk”).
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