Self Development| Accelerate Your Ability to Learn

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I read the phrase 'Accelerate your ability to learn' and fell in love with it.

Simple? Yes. How do we do it.

Let's deconstruct the phrase.

The main aim is to Learn.
How you learn & what you do to learn is the Ability

But the essential idea that captured my imagination was 'Accelerate'

so not only are you supposed to learn, but improve and increase your ability to learn!
think of it as computing power. Not only are the processors becoming faster, the rate at which they are becoming faster is growing too!

So I went digging.

This post aims to look/search for some more information on the tools/thoughts/links that you could use to 'Accelerate your ability to learn'

1. Music

The founder of the Accelerated Learning movement, Dr. Georgi Lozanov, the renowned Bulgarian psychologist, developed a methodology for teaching foreign languages that used baroque music with a beat pattern of about 60 beats per minute. Students learned in a fraction of the normal time.


In a single day, one half of the normal vocabulary and phrases for the term (up to 1000 words or phrases) were learned. In addition, an added benefit was that the students had an average of 92% retention of what they had learned!


He found that Baroque music affects the emotional centers of the brain as well as the heart and breathing

here is an example to get you started

I use music all the time.
To write I have some specific numbers, to work thru mundane emails another set and some good ole favs for when I feel down and out.

Here is a piece of music I particularly like.


2. Getting Ready To Learn

This is such a revelation!

anyone who has ever worked out, will tell you the importance of warming up. you could seriously injure yourself if you don't and yet when it comes to the mind we don't really stretch , do we?

I suggest you develop a quick routine to Get Ready to Learn.
This could include music, looking at a photograph/art/point on a wall, chanting, breathing exercises or even self affirmations.

3. Managing Fear

this is such a big drag.

My suggestion is to admit it.

Admit that you are scared of the new thing/trick/skill/knowledge and that you need to learn it bad otherwise bad things will happen to you.

Fear is scared of being called fear.

the other thing fear is scared of? ACTION!
Start now. wanted to learn how to drive a car? ensure you are on the wheel of one today.

4 suggestopedia

Suggestopedia is a theory in which positive suggestion is applied in teaching.
But there is something there that I want to focus your attention on.

The students must value the professional skill of the teacher.

Now, since we are talking about learning by yourself here, you must trust the source of your learning.
I do not take all information from the net seriously. I have a select set of authors who I respect and listen to. Not everyone is allowed to offer me suggestions or try and mentor me.

5. Mind Maps

I love these things.

The mind map is such an awesome tool, I keep wondering by people don't use it.
It is simple, intuitive and versatile.
Essentially a mind map is a hard copy of how your mind works.
when I say the word 'blue',  some of you might think of the colour, some the mood, some the music and others clothes etc. To capture this non-linear approach that our brain uses, mind map was created.

get the free software from imindmap

6. Create What's In It For Me (W.I.I.F.M)
Whenever you sit down to learn anything, create this first.

Your mind will now ensure that while you are reading, listening, watching, your mind will consciously & unconsciously looks for WITFM.

This is like an objective or intended goal.

7. Mirror neuron

A mirror neuron is a neuron which fires both when an animal acts and when the animal observes the same action performed by another.

Want to learn something. Watch someone else do it.

 

It works for humans too!

My mum tells me that the younger sibling starts everything in life earlier than the first born. skills like talking, walking, running etc.  this is coz, he/she has another being to look at and ape!  

8. Mnemonic

A mnemonic device (pronounced /nəˈmɒnɪk/) is a memory aid.

Like the KISS principle - Keep It Simple Stupid

Create your own!

I am certain there are many more.

Let me know if there are techniques that you use & that work for you.

oh one more thing, I don't call this Accelerate Your Ability to Learn,  I call it AYAL!

Cheers!

Prabhjot Bedi

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