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Okay, to know what I'm talking about here, I downloaded the deck and am looking at sample questions now. Here are the first 10 questions I got:
1) The sixth virtue is _.
2) _ wrote in the Book of Five Rings, "quoted stuff".
3) The sixth virtue (again)
4) The _ is humility.
5) _ thus more can be said about a single apple...
6) If _, you will not advance to the next level and you will not gain the skill to notice new errors.
7) [as I realize I can copy and paste from Anki] The [...] is relinquishment.
8) [...] seeks to annihilate itself; there is no [...] that does not want an answer.
9) [...] that distorts what you say to others also distorts your own thoughts.
10) The [...] is empiricism.
What do you gain from knowing whether empiricism is the second or the seventh in the list, or from memorizing pithy quotes word for word, without context? The important thing is to learn how to practice and apply the concepts, not to memorize them by rote.
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Take a look at the list. Look at the last sentence of each item, and the first sentence of the next. Do you see how they flow into each other? Learning the order of the items helps me remember which virtues are connected to other ones, and how.
There is context, just not in the Anki card. It's in the article (which you would need to read before using the deck), and it's in your brain (the memories of the last time you read it.)
When I'm in situations where I might want to apply these virtues (e.g. when having an argument), I often don't have time to deduce them from first principles. If I've got them memorised, I can at least do a quick check of “is my current behaviour in opposition to any of the virtues?”. This helps me apply them to everyday life.
So how would you “learn how to practice and apply the concepts” from the article? What concrete steps would you take?
I'm sure my method has flaws; I want to know of a better way. Can you help me?
This post may be a better thing to internalize. I'm pretty sure there's other similar posts out there, but this was the most salient one for me.