I am a click-and-get-it person, meaning that I only need to get the big picture and key concept to understand a huge complicated matter. But I always feel that I have never got my learning methodology quite right. Something, some key point is lacking here. It holds me back all these years as a student and throttles my ability.

To learn is to associate. Associate old stuff already learnt with new stuff to be learnt and distinguish between the two. Fit the new concept into a big picture. That's all. I believe my problem is that I am lost in trivialities and therefore, slow in grasping the whole picture. Ahhhh, all these small details in my charter financial test material are killing me now. It is NOTHING difficult. The mathematics is no-brainer. The financial statement analysis is easy to understand. Yet all the details about cash flow and tax and acounting conventions are unnecessarily troublesome and irritating. I am now in urgent need of a rock-solid concept that underlies the whole finance thing, providing the foundation that I can build my system on.