11 effective tips that make you able to learn anything… People can – and should – from a young age, acquire the skill of learning if they want to expand their perceptions and open doors of opportunity for them to achieve all those goals they want to achieve and the goals they want to achieve. But some people continue to learn—and think—the same way throughout their lives without developing their own techniques. Fortunately, cognitive science has taken a look at how people actually learn, and the results are surprising and really helpful.
11 effective tips that make you able to learn anything
Here are effective tips for developing learning skills and gaining knowledge:
1. It’s easy to learn the skills as individual parts
If you want to learn to play the ukulele (guitar), do not think of performing all the parts together; Set the smallest, most measurable goal of learning a few small strings, the correct way to play, and how to put those strings together. The accumulation of these small skills over time will add to your total ukulele ability. It’s a technique that applies to mechanical learning, as well as fact-based lessons.
2. Multitasking is impractical, especially for storing new information
Most people know that multitasking is a myth. Your brain can’t give equal attention to two tasks at the same time. But few people apply that educational vision. In addition to breaking down the task into individual steps, be sure to devote all of your energy to each step. When you become distracted, it takes about 25 minutes to regain your focus on the original task.
Over time, multitasking may mean that you only gain a partial understanding of different tasks or concepts, without gaining complete knowledge or mastery of anything.
3. Writing down what you have learned helps cement it in your mind
If you want to translate your knowledge into knowledge, research suggests that you must handwrite what you have learned. A 2014 study found that students who wrote notes in ink and on paper learned more than students who wrote notes on their laptops. The ink-and-paper group was, after much testing, more adept at recalling facts and at understanding complex ideas and inferential information.
The researchers said that the physical act of having the stylus touch the paper creates a stronger cognitive bond to the material than just writing, which happens so quickly that it occupies a place in the mind. Writing forces you to face ideas head-on, causing them to stick with you forever.
4. Errors should be flagged and studied
Being perfect is an exaggeration. The whole learning phase is to try and fail and get a lesson that we were doing things wrong. In 2014, a study of motor learning found that the brain can reserve more or less space for the mistakes we make. We can later adapt those memories to do a better job next time. If parents teach their children to never make mistakes or to evade them when mistakes happen, the children will eventually lose a treasure of knowledge.
5. Being an optimist helps you succeed
Stressing kids with negative reinforcement can get them stuck in a mental routine, filling them with a lack of self-confidence and anxiety (both of which are detrimental to learning). “Anxiety keeps you from exploring real solutions and the thought patterns you will come up with,” says Harvard Business School professor Alison Wood Brooks. Decades of positive psychology research indicate that we will be more successful in whatever we try to do if we approach it with an open mind and see tangible areas for improvement.
Parents should teach their children to view learning as exploration, this will give them a sense of determination, which will enable them to bear when things go wrong.
6. Interesting topics are more memorable than boring
Children naturally get carried away by the weird and the foolish, but when the experience of rote learning makes them think about hard, scary facts, their fun can die. Fathers, don’t let that happen. As soon as possible, the children should understand why they remember their grandmother’s strange-smelling house and those bright yellow pants that dad wears at night.
The reason is that these things are distinct and unique. The writer and former American champion of memory recalled an entire deck of playing cards in less than two minutes by associating each playing card with a strange picture. Kids can do the same with the multiplication table and the heads.
7. Speed reading can amplify learning times
The premise is simple: if you can read faster, you can learn faster. Although you might think speed reading is a lot of effort, some programs like Spreeder gradually speed up your reading to make it seem manageable. After training your brain to process words more quickly, you get used to reading entire strings of text, rather than visualizing each one at a time (which makes you slower).
8. Practice, practice, then practice
A strong work ethic makes a real impact on the brain. A 2004 study published in the journal Nature discovered that throwing small balls in the air is a smart thing. And when people stop tossing the balls, the excitement of intelligence fades. There’s nothing special about tossing the same balls, but the reason is repetition. Neuroscientists call this process “pruning.” It denotes new paths carved by doing an action over and over until it reaches the stage of being permanently fixed. In other words, skills follow the principle of “what you don’t use, you lose.”
9. Use what you know to learn what you don’t know
If children encounter a topic that they have trouble understanding, parents should help them understand how it relates to something they have previously learned. This practice is called “associative learning”. The student may love soccer but struggles with calculus. If he can see the similarity between a scroll pass and a curve inclination, he will have a chance to grasp the abstract concept.
10. Looking for things isn’t always a bad thing
Children have to learn how to deal with tough problems, and this act teaches them politeness. But the evidence suggests that spending too long on a problem can make it worse. Research in 2008 found that those unresolved slips of the tongue can slip people into a “false state,” where their memory of perception or reality is replaced by a memory of the moment of the slip. The solution is if you know you know it, but you just don’t remember it, search for it on Google.
11. Educating people to help you too
Scientists call this the “protégé effect.” When you take something you learned earlier and shape it in your own words, you are not only demonstrating mastery of the idea, but you are also refining your understanding of it. When filtering information into small pieces that a person can easily assimilate, the teacher should gain some familiarity with the subject matter.
This is why older siblings are generally more intelligent than younger siblings, as a 2007 study indicated because one of the older siblings’ jobs is to pass on knowledge right after they receive it.
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