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Sometimes I find myself reading theory and thinking to myself 'man am I too stupid to understand this or what?'. I'm not but I think reading theory just doesn't help to bring across the point that is made in the books. I feel like I need some other form of learning theory.
I like to listen to theory a few times as an audiobook while I do chores, cook, exercise, or play less cerebral videogames. It builds a familiarity with the simple ideas and the flow of the text, how the parts relate to each other in general. It lets my brain work on the ideas without my conscious mind getting in the way because it is busy doing other things. Then after listening to it 2 or 3 times read along with it and really get down to attaching all the parts together in the order they are presented and turning them into one solid thing.
That's exactly how I approach theory as well!
I'll look up for an audio book, podcast, video or something that I can listen to while doing something else so that I can at least get acquainted with the terminology used and write down something I might need to search for it (eg. Let's say the topic is about a specific event that happened in the USSR that I'm not familiar with. Before listening to that audio again, I'd like to have looked more into that event and the factors that led to it).
And of course, repetition is key. If possible, I'll try my best to read even just a quick paragraph during the day and ask myself what I learned from the previous paragraph.
Also, since we mentioned audio books, I can't recommend or thank Dessalines enough for his amazing YouTube channel which has an insane amount of audios recorded by him