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Learning Strategies
By Steve Gillman
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I have chosen to include many articles by Steve Gillman because he offers a lot of useful information that can help you to use your brain better and become more creative.
The following article by Steve Gillman is on the topic of learning strategies. If you are not already familiar with the term “learning strategies” this is a term that describes the different techniques you can use when you want to learn something.
Human brains are like sponges that soak up new information, especially when people are young. Nevertheless, there are controversies over what is the best method to use when you want to teach something or learn something. The problem is that everyone has a unique learning style that works best for them. You may have to experiment to discover what technique makes you learn easily.
Even if you have already finished school, you will often find yourself in the situation where you need to learn something new. You may be called upon to present a report to your co-workers, or you may decide to run for political office. This means you have to master a lot of new material quickly, and have the information at your finger tips.
This article by Steve Gillman will give you some ideas that can make learning new material easier for you.
Why not experiment with the ideas presented here, and see how they can help you. Then, try creating some new ways that make learning new things fun again. For example, you may find that you enjoy learning more if you actually get to use your new learning right away. Create a poem or a skit that uses the new information.
That will help cement the new ideas into your mind.
(The above introductory comments were written by Royane Real “How You Can Be Smarter - Use Your Brain to Learn Faster, Remember Better and Be More Creative” It's available for download or in paperback at http://www.lulu.com/real )
Feature article:
Learning Strategies
By Steve Gillman
A few basic learning strategies can help you in your career or business. They also can make you the person who always has something interesting to say. You CAN learn more efficiently. Just use a few of the following techniques until they become habit.
Create Anticipation and Curiosity
You learn more effectively with curiosity and anticipation working for you, but how do you create this state of mind? One way is to end each learning session with a question or two clearly in your mind. This creates the sense of anticipation and curiosity that will help you next time you study. It's like a TV show going to a commercial at an interesting moment in the program. You want to stay tuned, to see what happens next.
Prepare To Learn
When you want to learn new material, expose your mind to it as soon as possible, before you even feel "ready," or have time to study. The first stage of learning is the part where you look at new ideas and say, "huh?" Do this quickly, however, reviewing everything for a few minutes, and your unconscious mind will start "incubating" the new concepts, and finding some way to organize them.
Relate What You Know To The New Knowledge
When you sit down to study new material, relate it to what you already know.
Compare and contrast things, saying to yourself, "That's like...," or "How is that different from..." Autoresponders were new to me when I started my newsletters, but the concept sunk in and motivated me when I thought, "It's like someone doing all my addressing and mailing for pennies a day." This prompted the important questions, and I was ready to learn.
Use Your Imagination
Changing your perspective is one of the great learning strategies. For example, study with the idea in mind that you will be teaching what you're learning. As you study something, imagine how you'll teach it. This is a powerful way to get a good grasp on new information.
Also imagine how you'll use what you are learning. There's so much information, and so little of it is the truly "important stuff." But by imagining how you'll use the new information, you tend to automatically focus on the things you really need to know.
Take Breaks
You can learn more by working less. The research shows that we remember best what we study first and last in a given session. So, by taking breaks, you create more "sessions," and increase the number of firsts and lasts. Move around during your breaks, as this can also keep your mind fresh.
Finding Time
What if it took no extra time to learn a new language, take a negotiating course, or study something new and interesting? Start using the dead-time in your day, the time sitting in your car, or on the bus, or in a waiting room. Almost any public library has hundreds of books on tape, and you can even instantly download books on the internet.
This is one of the most under-utilized and easiest learning strategies. If your job is 25 minutes away you spend 200 hours per year sitting in your car going to or from work. Could you learn something useful if you had four hours per week of audio instruction for a year? The only extra time it takes is a few minutes to stop by the library.
Of course, almost nothing works just by reading it. Why not scan the list above and start using one or two of these learning strategies?
Steve Gillman has been studying brainpower and related topics for years. For more on How To Increase Brain Power, and to get the Brain Power Newsletter and other free gifts, visit: http://www.IncreaseBrainPower.com
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