How to Learn New Skills for Life.Arouse your curiosity and tolerate your frustrations to win success. How to Learn New SkillsCan you remember when you first learned to ride a two-wheeler bike? Was it a 1-2-3-success story? Did you fall off the seat, bloody your knees, and scream for your Momma? The most important question is ? Did-you-quit? I bet you stopped crying, put a Band-Aid on your knee, jumped on the bike and tried again and again until you got the hang of gravity. Why You had a "burning desire" to be with your friends who had already mastered riding a bike. Soon-or-later, you learned to shift your weight to balance yourself, and pedal so fast you stayed upright. How When we are motivated and pursue our "burning desire", we will not quit until we win all the marbles of learning a new skill. The operative word to success is No-Quiting. Two First is curiosity, you want to know how it feels to learn and experience using the new skill. Second is "tolerance-of-frustration", you wont quit trying even though you fail again and again, until you finally learn the new skill. Motivation You brain is driven to success because you have a burning- desire to experience the new skill. You are willing to fail until you finally succeed. Motivation is your reason for trying after you failed the first or tenth time. It's your purpose-and-direction for your continuing to try, try again, until you master the new skill. Learning Humans learn through four major strategies: 1. Listening to parents, teachers, & professors. 2. Watching others (apprenticeship) 3. Trial-and-Error. Remembering what does not work in order to avoid past mistakes, and placing into long-term memory the strategies that do work. 4. Using a combination of 1-4. Sequence to Convince And Persuade 1. What is the deal you are offering? 2. How much is the package? 3. What's In It for Me? (The Buyer) 4. Why should I believe a numbskull like you? If you wait until the last step to offer your price, the buyer mentally deletes you. 1-4 is the optimal persuasion strategy, change it and you change the odds of success. Mental-Movies Our brain communicates with others by offering mental-imagery and metaphors. It is our right-hemisphere (cerebral cortex) that creates pictures that convince others. Our left-hemisphere uses words and symbols (numbers etc) to persuade. Association Memory is created and accessed by the use of Pictures and Associations. When you want to remember something NEW, you must first associate (link) it with something you already KNEW. Remember, long-term memory encodes information semantically for storage, and later retrieval. A ridiculous image of what you want to recall, creates an association (link) for long-term memory. When you think of one side of the association, it retrieves the new idea with the old concept. The three (3) types of association are: 1. Similarities (reminds you of). Mickey and Mouse. 2. Contiguity (neighboring, continuous or connected whole. Ex. Utah and Idaho are contiguous. 3. Contrast (comparision). Ex. up and down, North and South. Endwords Which of these six claims are bogus? 1. Speed Reading can help increase your longevity up to 6-11 years? 2. Speed Reading can help reduce the risk of Alzheimer's up to 40%? 3. Speed Reading can help increase your personal- productivity (career) up to 39-41%? 4. Speed Reading can help triple (3x) your reading speed, and double (2x) you long-term memory? 5. Speed Reading can help exercise the 12 muscles in your eyes and prevent Dry Eye? 6. Speed Reading can help turn illiterates into geniuses? Ask us at w.Speedlearning.org - how to read and remember three (3) books, articles and reports, while others can hardly finish one. See ya, copyright © 2008, H. Bernard Wechsler ----------------------------------------------------------- Author of Speed reading for Professionals, published by Barron's, |
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