>I would argue that most people can't, which kind of irks me that recommendations like this have been the status quo for quite some time. It's not a static pro

>I would argue that most people can't, which kind of irks me that recommendations like this have been the status quo for quite some time. It's not a static property we each have -- one can learn to learn differently. I would argue that sort of information gathering is vital to documentation-heavy professions, programming included. In other words : (imo) if you can't learn that way, you're doing a tremendous disservice to yourself by not looking for methods by which to learn how to learn that way.