Royane Real
How To Learn – Three Techniques
By Steve Gillman
Introductory comments by Royane Real
Author of “How You Can Be Smarter - Use Your Brain to Learn Faster, Remember Better and Be More Creative”
When I was young, I was very good at learning – no matter what the subject. Learning was so easy for me, that I couldn’t understand why other people weren’t also good at learning.
As I got older, I continued to be very interested in the topic of how people learn, and how they could improve learning. I continued to wonder why so many people found learning hard, or why they found it boring.
I wanted to know how the brain worked, and what could we do to help ourselves to become better learners. I wondered, “Can we actually grow smarter?”
After many years of studying, learning, and teaching, I wrote a book about how people could improve their memory and learning. It’s called “How You Can Be Smarter” and it’s available at this website.
One of the things I discovered while I was doing my research into improving learning, was that if you really are interested in a subject, you will find learning easy and you will find it fun. Even if it’s something like calculus. If you tell yourself you really like it, you can actually train yourself to enjoy learning it.
I also discovered that if you tell yourself you can’t understand something, that it’s too hard and too boring to learn, your brain will quickly shut off and won’t even bother trying to learn the subject. You'll be a better learner if you can train yourself to be curious and confident.
If you keep telling yourself that you already understand a topic and and that the subject is easy, you can train your brain to love learning. And you will be able to understand the topic much better.
On this website, I will present many well written, well researched self help articles to help you improve your life in many ways. One important focus of this website is to help people improve their learning and their ability to understand and to think.
The following article by author Steve Gillman presents more quick ways you can improve your learning ability.
( The introductory comments above are written by Royane Real who is the author of the book “How You Can Be Smarter - Use Your Brain to Learn Faster, Remember Better and Be More Creative” Download it today and learn more ways to get the maximum use of your brainpower. It’s available at http://www.lulu.com/real )
Feature article
How To Learn – Three Techniques
By Steve Gillman
Want to know how to learn? The bad news is that there is no one "way" to learn. The good news is that there are many ways.
Read, take notes, repeat what you learn so you won't forget it - all of these are traditional ways to learn something new. The following are three more techniques to try.
How To Learn By Teaching
It has been said that if you really want to learn something thoroughly, you should teach it to another. This is a proven way to clarify that knowledge and make it "stick" in your head. Of course, you may not have someone available to teach, or you may not want to take the time and effort to do so.
In that case, the next best solution is to imagine yourself teaching. This can really change your perspective and make learning more efficient. Approach the study of anything new with the idea in mind that you will be teaching what you're learning to someone else.
In fact, as you learn something, imagine how you will teach it. You should even hear the words you will use. This can be a very powerful way to get a good grasp on new information.
How To Learn More By Taking Breaks
Learn more by taking breaks? Yes, actually.
Research into how we learn shows that we remember best what we studied first and last in a given "learning session." Take more breaks, and you have more "sessions," so you increase the number of firsts and lasts.
How often should you take a break? This isn't as clear.
Obviously if you take a break every two minutes it can just interfere with learning. You can try taking a break whenever your mind starts to wander, but probably no more often than a five-minute break every fifteen minutes.
Getting up and moving around during your breaks can also keep your mind fresh.
Project How You Will Use New Knowledge
As you study something new, stop to imagine how you will use what you are learning. There is always so much information, and yet little of it is the "important stuff."
But by imagining how you'll use your new information, you tend to automatically focus on the things you really need to know.
If you are a student, you may protest that you won't actually have a use for the new information - you just need to pass a test. That's okay.
Passing the test is how you will use it then. Imagine the kinds of questions that you will see on the test, and that will help you recall what is most important at test time.
To learn how to learn, just start using any of these techniques until they become habit.
Then learn another one.
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