I have been reading articles for a while and I have found that the sq3r strategy is the best way to remember and understand what you are reading.
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survey: so first you need to scan through the text to see if it is what you want or even scanning through the text can help you connect ideas and get a better understanding about the article before you start to read it.
Question: does this answer all that you need the article to. you can also make question and then by the end of the article you should be able to answer them
Read: go ahead an read through your article
Recite: after you have finished reading to get a better understanding or to make sure you understood the article say what you have learnt out load to yourself or someone else. trying to teach someone is always a good idea.
Review: a few weeks later try to repeat/write down what you learnt and this helps to keep your memory fresh and prepares you for that exam. no more overnight cramming
now it is your go have a try at this article.
Facts Don't Change Our Minds. Friendship Does.
Convincing someone to change their mind is really the process of convincing them to change their tribe. If they abandon their beliefs, they run the risk of losing social ties. You can't expect someone to change their mind if you take away their community too. You have to give them somewhere to go. Nobody wants their worldview torn apart if loneliness is the outcome.
The way to change people's minds is to become friends with them, to integrate them into your tribe, to bring them into your circle. Now, they can change their beliefs without the risk of being abandoned socially.
The British philosopher Alain de Botton suggests that we simply share meals with those who disagree with us:
"Sitting down at a table with a group of strangers has the incomparable and odd benefit of making it a little more difficult to hate them with impunity. Prejudice and ethnic strife feed off abstraction. However, the proximity required by a meal – something about handing dishes around, unfurling napkins at the same moment, even asking a stranger to pass the salt – disrupts our ability to cling to the belief that the outsiders who wear unusual clothes and speak in distinctive accents deserve to be sent home or assaulted. For all the large-scale political solutions which have been proposed to salve ethnic conflict, there are few more effective ways to promote tolerance between suspicious neighbours than to force them to eat supper together."
Perhaps it is not difference, but distance that breeds tribalism and hostility. As proximity increases, so does understanding. I am reminded of Abraham Lincoln's quote, "I don't like that man. I must get to know him better."
