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Learn Programming Like Einstein Learned Physics

May 7, 2017 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

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As I wrote in a previous post, one other article that I had the pleasure to write has been published in SimpleProgrammer.com. It is about emulating the patterns of the Nobel Prize winner physicist, Albert Einstein in software development. I invested more than eleven hours in it, taking into account the research, article outline, writing, and reformulating the points that I wanted to mention. It may seem so much time, but I enjoyed writing it, and I am grateful that so many people have found it helpful. Continue reading

5 myths and misunderstandings about learning

September 25, 2016 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

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Scott Young is a writer of a few books that are mostly about learning more and productivity. He is probably famous especially for his astonishing project of finishing a four year MIT Computer Science curriculum in one year learning on his own without being at MIT. He writes in a blog mostly about ways of learning more and better. A couple of weeks ago, Scott Young held a webinar about the myths and misconceptions that people have about learning well. The webinar was not intended to be recorded, so I had to wake up at 2:30 am to watch it because of the time zone differences, but I consider it totally worth my time and effort. In this article, you can find some notes that I took while attending the webinar, hoping that they may be beneficial for you. Continue reading

Learning to control our response

February 5, 2016 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

When you think about the word successful, who is the first person who comes to mind? Then, if you think it once more, you might probably think about somebody else instead of the first person that you remembered. If you would take about ten minutes to think about this, you might get surprised when you mention another name now, which is quite different instead of the first name that popped up in your head. This is just an experiment of knowing how our response can change over such a short period of time for the same thing even when we are dealing with such a simple question. Continue reading

Save a lot of time: Learn from other people’s successes

January 22, 2016 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

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Do you often find yourself trapped in the mindset that if you fail learning something, you simply have to keep a bit harder, and then a bit harder than that? A lot of self-declared gurus try to motivate people to simply push themselves a little harder to achieve their goals, and that it takes only some efforts to do something amazing. The truth might not be too far from that, although it might take a lot of time. Aiming for the east, but walking towards the west will most likely turn out to be a terrible waste of time, energy and effort. Continue reading

2 tips from Grandmasters of Memory on how to remember anything

May 2, 2015 / Fatos Morina / 2 Comments

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I have not identified myself as a person who remembers things that I am supposed to recall later, but I do not want to stay with that type of identity for the rest of my life. Thankfully, I have stumbled upon two interviews from Grandmasters of Memory that do not claim to have any special inborn skills of memorization, but rather have been training and getting very good at it. What you are about to read is an article with the tips that they recommend to other people that can profoundly improve your ability to remember things. Continue reading

Speed reading is not effective and science confirms it

January 30, 2015 / Fatos Morina / 1 Comment

About two years ago I started practicing speed reading, because I wanted to read more and the challenge of reading more books per year excited me. I started to quickly move my eyes through the lines, because I had the opinion that not everything included in a text is with the same importance and not being able to recall a lot of things seemed normal. However, I was a bit ashamed that sometimes I wasn’t able to recall almost anything from a chapter, because I found myself tending to be impressive by showing the others that I was able to read a lot of pages for a short period of time. Continue reading

Age is not an excuse for failing to learn a new language. See what might help

November 16, 2014 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

Learning a foreign language can usually be seen as a very difficult task to do, especially if you didn’t learn that language when you were younger. But this doesn’t seem to be true, because according to a research, this belief is false and that age is not a valid excuse for failing to learn a new language. Let’s investigate maybe one of the main reason why children are better in learning a new language compared to old people, which has been as a factor to form that belief about the potential impact of age in learning a new language. Continue reading

How NOT to pass an exam

May 15, 2014 / Fatos Morina / 3 Comments

We always hear a lot of advice about approaches and tricks on how to pass an exam and if we fail using them, we simply try again and again, but we are not aware that sometimes we are unconsciously admitting to fail. In this article I will try to make a pattern about the actions that may lead to not pass an exam.

Do not attend your lectures

Even though some of them may not be as efficient as we would like them to be and they can be early in the morning, or late during the afternoon, lectures are really important and skipping them can have a considerable impact in a few more hours needed to understand and learn something. Continue reading