Entry tags:
Learning Strategy Search - Short Term, Completed
- Search target: finding a specific quote about learning that goes roughly "If you can read and understand the work of the world's foremost leading expert in a subject, you can make yourself the second leading expert". Quote believed to be in a book or website about Frank Abagnale Jr. or Ferdinand Waldo Demara.
- Search result: http://www.winwenger.com/bootstrp.htm
- Information source used: http://www.google.com
- Search strategy employed: "but if you can understand"+"second leading expert"
- Evaluation of material: I'd forgotten this website existed. An interesting collection of learning strategies, beyond just the one involving the quote I recalled. Also links to other related websites on enhanced learning strategies, such as Genius by Design, the site I was recalling the Abagnale and Demara association from.
- Paraphrased ideas or direct quotes: "When you read and understand the work of a world’s leading expert, you can become the world’s second-leading expert."
- What have I learned?: Finding this quote would have been impossible if I hadn't given up on the idea that it was in a book or website associated with Abagnale or Demara. Only by removing those names as search terms was I able to locate the quote.
- Ideas for next search: Go back to searching for generalized learning techniques and learning strategies rather than searching for material on Abagnale or Demara. Particularly focus on Renaissance Men and geniuses.