In today’s workplace, change takes place more rapidly than ever. Employees know that if they want to continue doing their jobs well, they have to keep learning. Learning is a constant, and it doesn’t stop. If learning is a necessity, you want to learn in the most efficient way possible. Here are a few tips on how to learn faster and learn better.
1. Find a good place to study
We are all different, and so we have different places where we learn best. Experiment to find out where the best place is for you to learn, one that enhances your learning experience.
2. Take notes
If you want to learn well, reading cannot be merely passive. If you simply read something, thinking that it will stick in your head, you may be disappointed later. To best remember and understand something, you need to write it down in your own words. By doing this, you are taking an active role in your learning, helping your mind retain the material. And, by putting it in your own words and summarizing the material, it forces you to think about the meaning of what you have read, what the essential point of it is, all of which will help you to remember it better and understand it better.
3. Make connections
You will learn the material better if you link the new knowledge to what you already know. It happens through the association of ideas. For example, if you associate the color blue with something important, you can label new information you consider essential in the color blue. Or you can use rhymes to remember something.
4. Stay mentally sharp
If you exercise your brain, like you exercise your body, you will learn better. There are different ways of doing this. One way is to stay curious, to learn about new and different things. Another important way to stay sharp is through reading, and doing a lot of it. The more you read, the more you get used to learning through the written word, which will make learning easier in general.
5. Use what you have learned
This will really help you to assimilate the information. The best way to learn a language, for example, is to practice it with native speakers.
6. Know how you learn best
Some people learn best through the written word, other through more visual stimuli, such as pictures, and other through more auditory stimuli, like a lecture. Find out which way works best for you, and try to incorporate that way into your learning.
7. Explain it
One way to know if you really understand something is to try and explain it to someone else.
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