Before you set about reading a book, article or document, try to guess from its title what is written in it (or what you would write in the author’s place). The same “forecasting” applies to the heads of chapters and the first paragraphs of the text. Before reading (listening and glancing through) think of what information you want to derive, and what for. This will stimulate your interest and prepare you for its cognition. Where the author, citing a number of arguments, is going to draw a conclusion, make a deduction yourself first and only then continue to read.
Before reading recall all relevant information known to you. In other words, “brush up” your knowledge. Try to imitate Ancient Roman orators, who learned their speeches pacing up and down and “establishing connections” between the text and the atmosphere of their homes and then would recall the speech by taking “mental strolls”.
If you want to memorise a text in detail don’t learn it piecemeal. Learn the whole text, and learn it in its natural sequence. To avoid forgetting the name of a new acquaintance, strengthen the first impression left by him by repeating his name aloud (”Excuse me, have I heard you right?”), using it in the conversation and when parting. Write down this name, if only with your finger in the air. imagine in whose honour this man may have been named, etc.
Try to evoke the strongest possible emotions connected with the information you memorise. Incidentally, this is exactly what Lenin did. The margins of the books he read bristle with categorical and profoundly emotional notes: “True!”, “What nonsense!”, “Ha-ha!”, and “You’ve hit the nail on the head!”
When preparing for intensive mental efforts consider the state you are in at the moment. Sadness, irritation, uncertainty and fear are enemies of memory. Never write down things without an attempt to grasp and memorise them! To these rules you may add a host of your own, based on the laws of memory. In short, the knowledge of these laws will enable you to memorise much more than before even if you had complaints about your memory.
Taken from : A Guide To Memory Increase By Rocco Oppedisano
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1. Clarify your goals and objectives
First, look at the bigger picture and then break things down into
shorter time segments.What do you want to have accomplished by the end of the first six months of graduate study? The first year? Sketch these goals out broadly, as they are likely to change over
time. Now, write down your objectives for the next three months, and then fine tune these for over the next month. Now that you’ve written your goals down, ask yourself two things: are my goals measurable? How will I know when I’ve achieved my goal(s)?
2. Write down a list of actions
Now it’s time to think about all the things you need to do to achieve your goals. What limitations and constraints do you have in terms of time, know-how, equipment, material, etc?Write down as many actions as you can that will help you achieve your goals.
3. Prioritize
Take a good look at your list. Prioritize the actionable points so that you do first what is most efficient and what will most likely assist you in achieving your goals (in other words, if you need to build a piece of equipment before you can run an experiment, you will naturally have to do that step first).
4. Organize your actions into a plan
Actions that are set into a time framework make up a plan.Make sure your plan is workable. Can you do the actions you have set up for yourself in the time frame you’ve allotted? Make sure you’ve ordered your actions into a logical sequence.
5. Monitor and measure your progress
On a regular basis you will have to monitor your plan and make adjustments if necessary. It’s important to remain flexible and re-state your goals from time to time as necessary and as you gain
more experience with your project.
One question a lot of people ask is how to know if a goal is good or bad. In other words, how do you discriminate between the really important goals and the “nice to have” but not really important ones?
You will know whether or not a goal you have chosen is important by answering these five questions.
- Is it really MY goal?
- Is it morally right and fair?
- Are my short-range goals consistent with my long-term goals?
- Can I commit myself emotionally to completing the project?
- Can I visualize myself reaching this goal?
If you have answered “No” to even one of these questions, you may want to reconsider this goal. In the short-term it may appear to work for you, but in the long run, you may exposing yourself to a lot of unnecessary conflict and frustration. Be sure to set big goals as well as multiple goals. Big goals force you to reach in and use the potential that is inside of you. Long-range goals help you to overcome short-range failures. They can also help you to change your direction without going back on your decision. Whether or not they ever reach the goals they have set, people who set big, long-range goals have been found to have higher self-confidence, higher self-esteem, and greater personal motivation. The bottom line is that more than half the rewards and benefits achieved from goal-setting come from actually taking your first step in that direction, regardless of the consequences.
Long term - to provide you with a vision of what you want to do in your lifetime. Short term - to provide you with gratification, to keep you going on a day-to-day basis. Realistic, achievable and challenging - to balance the need to provide yourself with challenges as well as the need for success.
Flexible - so you can revise goals as your life changes, as priorities change and as new opportunities arise. Precise and measurable - so you know exactly what you need to do, with deadlines. Your goals - no one else’s. They must reflect your learning style and the way you to operate. In writing - to make them real. Goals aren’t real goals until they’re written down - don’t be afraid to put your dreams in writing. There are two kinds of goals: outcome goals and performance goals which involve actual tasks. Outcome goal for my computer course: I’m going to get a 3.75 in my computer course this semester. Performance goal: I’m going to utilize all available lab time, ask my instructor about specific concepts I don’t understand and review regularly, not just before quizzes or exams.
Outcome goal for English: I’m going to get at least a B+ on my next paper. Performance goal: I’m going to improve my English grades by improving my essay writing techniques. I’m going to learn to organize my information clearly before I start writing. I’m going to proofread my work, finding common mistakes. Outcome goal for Math: I’m going to earn an A in my math course. Performance goal: I’m going to improve my grade by studying and working on math problems at least an hour and a half every day. I’m going to do all chapter problems, not just the assigned ones. I’ll work with tutors
in the Tutoring Center whenever needed. If you achieve the tasks in your performance goals, you will achieve your outcome goals.
Taken from David McNally - Goals Settings
Why give a paper anyway? It is a remarkably inefficient method of disseminating scientific information. A speaker can reach only a handful of potentially interested colleagues, and the time constraints at most meetings rarely permit an extensive exploration of a subject. A talk is an ephemeral event, of which the only lasting elements lie in a brief abstract and the fading memories of the relatively few who attended the session. Yet oral presentations are a time-honored means of transmitting the fruit of scientific research and scientists will no doubt be speaking at professional meetings for a long time to come. It is a way to reveal quickly our most recent thoughts and discoveries to our colleagues – a way of informing the world that we are into a specific aspect of research (staking out a bit of scientific territory, if you will). It is too often a prerequisite for obtaining funds to attend these meetings, but we won’t go into that. A scientific talk unquestionably is highly effective for developing fruitful discussion with others interested in the subject. So we will continue to give talks; the question is how do we insure that we give good talks. Consider an audience – part of it is there specifically to hear your paper, the rest because they have nothing better to do. It will in most cases be composed of a few people as knowledgeable (or nearly so)
as you on your subject, a majority who know at least something about it and many who are totally unfamiliar, or nearly so, with it. A successful talk provides something of value 9 although not necessarily the same thing) to all these groups.
How does one leave most of an audience with a feeling that they have profited from the talk regardless of
the level of knowledge with which they approached the subject? All the memorable talks I have heard, regardless of my familiarity with the subject, shares one common trait; simplicity. The speaker convincingly presented a few conclusions, which I retained for a long time. It is more important to get across a few points that will be remembered than to tell everything you know about a subject. Better to save the detailed account for the printed text. Too often speakers waste this precious time at the podium presenting unessential data. Few listeners care for, or will remember numbers, lists, etc. Of far more interest are significant trends, relationships, or differences – in other words, the interpretation of the data.
Taken from How to Keep an Audience Attentive, Alert, and Around for the Conclusions at a Scientific Meeting by H. Edward Clifton
What are your goals? Really, what are your goals? It might help to divide your goals into time frames (immediate goals, short-mid-term goals, long-range goals) but you don’t absolutely have to do so for the exercise to be useful. And, you don’t have to have firm answers to those gripping questions about what you want to be or do when you’re done at university to make this work; your goals are likely to shift and change over time anyway.
All you need to do right now is think of a handful of goals to get started. Write down a list of goals now before reading further. Take a look at your list of goals. How many of the tasks you intend to do today contribute to accomplishing the goals you have set for yourself? Are you actively working on these goals? Are you putting any of them off for a later time? What would you have to change in your life to make it possible to work on these goals?
Taken from : Time Management for Students, Brian Pose
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Cisco is one of the famous names on IT industry, they have built numerous computer parts that serve people needs of IT improvement. If we talk about Cisco, we also have to know that Cisco memory actually not built or manufacture by Cisco themselves. They were manufactured by Cisco’s approved OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer). Those companies are could be one of their vendor, NEC electronics, or Samsung are example of those OEM companies.
Although these Cisco memory parts were manufactured by Cisco’s vendor, but in the quality maintainance they were inspected and have to be approved first by Cisco before it can be sell. These memory parts are guaranteed to be compatibled with other Cisco equipment. Those computer memory parts are named by OEM Cisco memory, there were another memory modules you could found on the market from those companies of Cisco’s vendor. These memory are not inspected and under Cisco’s trademark, so you have to be careful picking memory parts.
Even those parts are guaranteed by the manufacturers to be full compliant with other Cisco component, Cisco doesn’t give you guarantee those third party parts.
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As I wrote in my post before, when I recently visited a big housing and apartment expo. I really don’t have any interested in houses that they offer on the expo. No, not the house that I don’t like, I like their design for those house, but thing that I don’t like much is their location. It located at downtown. It takes up to one hour from those locations to my office, imagine how much time I waste if I take those house offered by them. Because of that I prefer to look at the apartment offering, their location is more timed friendly for me. You see, if I lived in downtown and I work at the very heart of the city, imagine how much time will I lose in just a month.
In addition I’m a huge fan of Modern Furniture, and those apartment more likely to suit that kind of furnitures. Yes, maybe it’s because they were designed for people who live in the uptown are busy and active people. So modern furnitures would get more attention to them. Some of those apartments include their offer with a fully furnished unit of apartment. And most of them are in modern theme. For you a classic lover, it would be much easier to buy a conventional house than apartment, it’s because almost none of those apartment offers a classic or traditional theme.
You could choose buying an empty apartment and searching your own furniture, or maybe you’re too busy to look for furnitures that suit your apartment, than buying a fully furnished one is the best choice. But if you’re not that busy, and you’re enjoying time to find yourself a great modern furniture maybe you better look at the internet. Yeah, searching online, is easier for you than walking around just to comparing design, themes, or price for your furnitures. See if there anything you like, look for their price, and you still plenty of time to compare it with another choice. And when you’re done searching, and finally get your choice, buy it online. After you done with your payment, they will have them delivered at your door.. See, you don’t even have to go out your room.
