Advice On What Are The Techniques Of Faster Learning

by rahulrajmehra

posted on 08/24/2009

• Read material that requires thinking - particularly biographies, news magazines and newspapers. Read a non-fiction book for 20 minutes each day. Carry reading material with you for when you can turn dead time into learning time, even if only for a few minutes. Read the best of the mystery novels and try to keep one step ahead of the detectives. Get a quality dictionary and read the meaning of five new words a day, for 10 days.

• Write - research has shown geniuses from history, such as Sir Isaac Newton, Thomas Jefferson and Johann Sebastian Bach were compulsive scribblers. They all recorded thoughts and feelings in diaries, poems, and letters to friends and family, starting from an early age. Researchers have observed this tendency not only in budding writers, but in generals, statesmen, and scientists.

• Learn to love maths - you don't live in a vacuum, you actually function in the real world and use maths everyday. You manage to keep down a job, balance your bank account, use credit cards and pay taxes. Yet you consider you're hopeless at maths. Be consoled by the fact that a grasp of mathematics has less to do with your intelligence than your eduction. If you don't understand the basic principles of maths, you were probably badly taught somewhere along the way. The problem with many people is that after they get past the age at which they should have learned something, they become embarrassed if they haven't and therefore back away from anything and everything involved with it. They feel that they've been left too far behind and that catching up is too big a task. Familiarity with mathematics will expand your power, make your intellect stronger, and be of immense help in using logic, which is itself of immense help in life. Like language, mathematics is something agreed upon in communication.

• Play games - like chess or scrabble or other word board games. Any game that requires you to use strategy, to project yourself into future time, to think ahead several moves, and to try to outguess and out-think your opponent.

• Set yourself goals - set a personal development goal of gaining knowledge in a specific field on a particular topic. Tell your friends and family so they can encourage you.

• Learn to mind map - a natural way to organise information, according to the experts. Mind mapping proceeds from the notion that the mind does not work in a linear, straightforward fashion. It works in images, strings of associations, in tangents and loops.

• Be creative - everyone has creativity inside them. Look at children - they can sing, dance, play musical instruments and paint wonderful pictures! It doesn't matter that you'll never appear at the Royal Albert Hall or exhibit at the Tate - just enjoy it!

• Find out what's going on in the world - make a conscious effort to learn more about a country or people you know nothing about. Watch and listen to current affairs programmes on TV and radio. Read world newspapers and newsmagazines. Newsagents will order them for you or they're available free at your library. Learn who the major statespeople are in countries around the world and find out more about different political systems.

• Improve your problem solving skills - start solving problems your way, which means the one most comfortable to you and the way you usually handle things. For example are you a verbal person? If you approach problems with words, then get out your dictionary and thesaurus and bolster your arguments with the most convincing and appropriate words you can find. Do you have a tendency to call upon a higher authority to bolster your claims? Look through your encyclopedia and find the pertinent articles to back up your argument with facts. Are you somebody who makes lists and writes things down? Then draw up the neatest and most concise list of arguments in your favour. Make sure you list them in descending order of importance. The next step is to start solving the same problems in an unfamiliar and uncharacteristic way to you.For example, if you're comfortable writing things down, take the verbal approach instead. If you're somebody who always cites authority, make a written list without consulting anybody else, in books or otherwise. The purpose of these exercises is not only to strengthen the insight mechanism you already have, but to give you glimpses of other useful methods that might work for you.

Try to apply all of the above suggestions and you definitely get a new world of fast and easy learning.All the best from my side.

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