Entrepreneur Store. Eric Hanson. Skip to content Profile Avatar. Subscribe to Entrepreneur. Magazine Subscriptions. The 9 Steps That Will Help You Learn Anything Learning new things while maintaining your role as a leader, visionary, and committed worker is challenging, but not impossible.
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Instead of blocking focusing on one subject, one task, or one skill during a learning session learn or practice several subjects or skills in succession. The process is called interleaving: Studying related concepts or skills in parallel. And it turns out interleaving is a much more effective way to train your brain and your motor skills. One theory is that interleaving improves your brain's ability to differentiate between concepts or skills.
When you block practice one skill, you can drill down until muscle memory takes over and the skill becomes more or less automatic. When you interleave several skills, any one skill can't become mindless -- and that's a good thing. Instead you're constantly forced to adapt and adjust. You're constantly forced to see, feel, and discriminate between different movements or different concepts. And that helps you really learn what you're trying to learn, because you it helps you gain understanding at a deeper level.
It may be occasionally true that those who can't, teach Even just thinking that you'll need to teach someone can make you learn more effectively.
According to the researchers, "When teachers prepare to teach, they tend to seek out key points and organize information into a coherent structure. Our results suggest that students also turn to these types of effective learning strategies when they expect to teach. The act of teaching also helps improve knowledge. Ask anyone who has trained someone else whether they also benefited from the experience.
Relating something new to something you're familiar with is called associative learning. Not the Pavlov's dog form of associative learning, but the kind where you learn the relationship between seemingly unrelated things. In simple terms, whenever you say, "Oh, I get it Need to learn something new? Try to associate it, at least in part, with something you already know. Then you only have to learn the differences or nuances.
And you'll be able to apply greater context -- which will help with memory storage and retrieval -- to the new information you learn. Which science says will result in you being able to learn a lot more quickly. Top Stories. Top Videos. Getty Images. But what you know, and what you can do , matters a whole lot more. In short, while mentally rehearsing is good, rehearsing out loud is even better. Most of us can type faster than we can write.
And a lot more neatly. Then step away for a few hours, or even for a day, before you repeat the process. Go a little faster. Speak a little -- just a little -- faster than you normally do. Run through your slides slightly faster. The future of innovation and technology in government for the greater good. Leaders who are shaping the future of business in creative ways.
New workplaces, new food sources, new medicine--even an entirely new economic system. Nearly two-thirds of U. They report that results have included an expanded professional network, new job or different career path. Being a quick learner can give you an even greater edge. Science proves there are six ways you can learn and retain something faster. The expectation changes your mind-set so that you engage in more effective approaches to learning than those who simply learn to pass a test, according to John Nestojko, a postdoctoral researcher in psychology and coauthor of the study.
He recommends preparing for micro learning sessions. Researchers at Princeton University and UCLA found that when students took notes by hand, they listened more actively and were able to identify important concepts.
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