Step One: A Productivity System
Without the solid foundation, there is no way you’re going to be able to build new skills and create new habits. Therefore, your first task is to adopt a productivity system. You have to develop a habit of consistent and effective practice; you need to have a distraction-free zone, and you need a system where you can track your progress.
Step Two: Speed Reading
You’re most likely going to need to do some reading in order to learn your new skill or hobby, but you only have so much time to read about it. That’s where speed reading comes in. Speed reading will actually improve your comprehension levels. You need to decide which parts of the material you’re going to read, and as you’re reading, keep your eyes moving steadily without stopping at each word and don’t reread phrases. These tricks will double your reading speed and help you retain more information. Remember, quantity and quality are important, not perfectionism.
Step Three: Work on Paper
There’s no doubt that pen and paper are the most unappreciated learning and productivity tools out there. You should always think and work on paper because it’ll make room for creative thinking by getting things off your mind. Use your own notation system and shorthand in order to highlight imperative facts and actions in the material that you’re learning. Memorize, condense and review the material you’ve learned by making some mind maps, which are visual maps, just with the information you’re learning.
Step Four: Utilize Your Senses
This tip is about discovering what your preferred learning style is and using it to make learning more fun and effective for you. You should figure out for yourself if you’re a visual learner, auditory learner, or a tactile learner. Information is going to be absorbed by your brain a lot quicker and more effectively if you use your preferred learning technique. To enhance your experience even more, combine your preferred learning style with a few others. For example, writing information down will combine your tactile and visual learning skills. Reading something out loud to yourself will combine your visual and your auditory learning techniques.
Step Five: Let Your Brain Absorb New Information
Everyone has a certain learning pace. Some will learn best in the early hours of the morning while others will learn better at night. Figure out what rhythm and time suits your needs and use it to maximize your learning. However, you should give your brain time to absorb new information that you’re learning. The best way you can do this is to practice one step at a time and then sleep on it. The second best way is to take a lot of breaks and do something totally different.
Step Three: Work on Paper perhaps should include Practice:
learning requires some reinforcement by exercise or repetition (not rote)
to etch the newly learned such that it is not immediately forgotten.
Using paper and pencil assists this by creating a sensory feedback memory.
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