We are now in 21st century where we have to realize that the world is evolving at rapid pace so fast that most of us have challenges to cope with the knowledge or skills that we need to acquire.
Hence, it is essential that we must learn new skills or technologies that help us to pick up information or knowledge effortlessly or we need to find ways to make our brain understand what we need to learn/know. Be prepared to be a Skilled Learner.
One of the good examples that I can demonstrate is about our memory. We can actually remember well with unlimited storage in our brain but most of us always have challenge to memorize.
Example, please do your best to memorize the following objects without using any tools like pen and paper:
and I bet most of us will fail to remember them especially if they are needed in sequence.
However, you can actually remember them all by using this approach:
Item 1 is Tree because the tree trunk looks like no 1
Item 2 is Eyes simple because we all (human) have 2 eyes
Item 3 is Triangle because it has 3 angles
Item 4 is Car as it has 4 tires
Item 5 is Glove as it is meant to be worn on 5 Fingers
Item 6 is Gun because and old gun can only shoot 6 bullets (6 shooters)
Item 7 is Rainbow, we know the Rainbow has 7 colors
Item 8 is Octopus because octopus always have 8 tentacles
Item 9 is Cat as there is a saying that cat has 9 lives
Item 10 is bowling ball because it is used to knock down 10 pins.
In order to recall these items, just ask the right questions like:
Item 10 is Bowling ball because it is used to knock down 10 pins.
Car is number 4 because of 4 tires
3 is Triangle because of 3 angles
6 is gun because of 6 bullets
and you can just carry on until you can remember all the 10 items in sequence.
I therefore would like to emphasize that we can make our learning simple and fun by:
- Copycat (psychology name is Modeling)
- Repetition (is the mother of learner)
- Association by connecting things that you do not know with what you already familiar.
When we learn new thing, it is always good to model or copycat from an expert who is the SME (subject matter expert). Subsequently keep practicing until it becomes automatically like Auto-Pilot mode inside your brain or becoming a habit. I would have to strongly emphasize that most of the humans that I know really know lots of stuffs especially from Internet like Google, Wikipedia, Youtube and unfortunately they don’t own it in their neuro-nerve (inside the brain).
Finally, always use the association method to connect the new skills with what you already familiar or know.
In conclusion, we all can learn effectively as long as we make our brain understand what we need to learn with ASSOCIATION. In addition, our brain is so powerful that our brain always remember when it is well trained.
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