Does anyone know any effective techniques to speed up learning? I'm looking for two reasons:
1) I think it applies very well to poker. A true winner thinks about poker in a refined way and has spent a ton of free time analyzing the game. This leads to fundamental understanding that marginal winners don't have, and naturally such an understanding lets them avoid a lot more spew.
So what kind of thinking path did they take to begin understanding the myriad situations that arise in the game? Right now I'm hoping that through a liberal use of pokerstove, session reviews, and cardrunners videos I can stumble on a revelation.
2) I do a lot of reading in my free time and sometimes worry that a lot of the time is wasted since we forget a lot. I've done some reading about memory and know a few techniques/basics, but I haven't found anything comprehensive.
I did a search on this and nothing really came up. A quick googling spews a bunch of quick-fix products and how to teach middle-schoolers.
I do think that in every book/article/post you read which you find intresting you could find one or two "action items" that you could you use to make you poker game better. The point is that you don't really need to remeber everything you read only the important things.
It's not really about remembering details, what you want is that you automatically use the concepts you learned in your game.
To be honest i find articles a lot more helpful then these forums, because they often go deeper. Same goes with 1 on 1 discussions with a mate. The main differences is that you get feedback which forces you to think more about why you do things. I think that is the most important part about learning poker.
