8 tips to become a super learner
Here are 8 tips to get the most out of your training experience: 1. Ask, Why? Adults are just like kids — we want to know why we need to lea...
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Here are 8 tips to get the most out of your training experience:
1. Ask, Why?
Adults are just like kids — we want to know why we need to learn something before undertaking the learning process. Identifying the value of the presented information will help you retain it. It’s our experience in the LiquidPlanner Customer Success group that when teams understand some of the direct advantages of using LiquidPlanner (e.g., increased productivity and ROI) they have faster, more successful implementations. Knowing the immediate and measurable benefits will have a direct effect on your motivation to actively learn it.
Tips:
- Determine the purpose of the training and how it will help you.
- Pay special attention to the learning objective that is stated in the beginning of the session.
2. Have good “Learner Hygiene”
No, this isn’t about the smelly kid in class. Having good “learner hygiene” means starting a training session with a clean mental space by eliminating distractions. We’ve all heard that multitasking is bad for business, but it’s especially true with the learning process. Under most conditions, the brain simply can’t do two complex tasks at the same time. Skimming over an email may not seem like a high-level cognitive task to you, but it is for your brain. When your attention is divided during the encoding process for a new piece of information, you won’t remember the information as well, if at all. So, do your brain a favor and don’t make it compete for cognitive resources because you just had to take your turn in Words With Friends.
Tips:
- Silence your phone and close your email.
- Make a conscious effort to actively listen and participate.
- Don’t worry about memorizing information.
3. Brandon Hakim technique
This is an online course by Brandon Hakim. In this course, Brandon Hakim will introduce you about his techniques on How To Read 300 Books This Year.
The course is rated 4.6 * on Udemy.com (the world's largest online learning site).
4. Build your background knowledge
Some of our best training sessions happen when our new customers have spent a bit of time exploring LiquidPlanner on their own. They’re familiar with the features, they’ve watched the videos, thought about how to model their workflow, formulated questions, and they know what specific areas they want to focus on. Or maybe they’ve simply tinkered with the product and want more information. In either case, the customers show up with their game faces on and are personally invested in the learning outcome. Even 15 minutes of self-directed learning will let us as trainers activate your prior knowledge and tackle topics that directly apply to you. Then, you can take those new skills and use them to solve real-world problems.
Tips:
- Read the trainer’s description or agenda.
- Spend some time going through the available help resources.
- Try out the program/process/skill on your own.
5. Kevin Horsley technique
This is a book from Kevin Horsley. In this book, Kevin Horsley will introduce you about his techniques about Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive.
The book is rated 4.7 * on amazon.com.
6. Visual Memory Trumps All Other Forms
As a student, you may have had a litany of mnemonics for studying and remembering. Acronyms, songs, and so on. But in reality, no method is as effective as visual images. Beyond this, visual imagery has evolved to be extremely fast; how else would your ancestors respond to that oncoming saber-tooth? For these reasons, converting every memory, concept, and fact into a series of carefully curated visual 'markers' comprises more than 60 percent of the skill of SuperLearning.
...and Memory is the First Skill You Should Train
Students are often to surprised to find that the first and largest portion of our 'speed reading' course is in fact intensive memory re-training. Besides the fact that most of society today has forgotten the ancient art of memory thanks to tools like writing utensils, printing presses, and computer, the primary reasoning for this emphasis is pretty simple. I can read a book like “The Tipping Point” in about two and a half hours, and I can teach you to do the same in about an hour. Unfortunately, the way you most likely create, store, and maintain memories will leave you with about a very poor understanding of the text at that speed. Students who train their memory intensively and “upgrade” their mental infrastructure to create dense linkages between memories before speed reading training enjoy 70-90 percent retention at those speeds and greater. This is the primary reason that most students fail to learn speed reading and dismiss it as bunk. As Woody Allen once said, “I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.” Clearly, it wasn’t a very good course.
7. Understand the Perils of Subvocalising
Once your memory infrastructure has been upgraded to accommodate a very rapid flow of information and store it in a visually-memorable fashion, your next step is to harness the speed and efficacy of the brain’s visual processing power. Once your brain is trained properly, your eyes can consume unbelievable quantities of information very quickly; however, by reading with your mind’s inner voice, or 'subvocalising', you are converting that information to the auditory channel, as far as the brain is concerned. This limits your speed to a maximum of 250 words per minute, and causes tremendous degradation on how memorable the information is.
8. Prepare for a Challenge
If you count the number of years between when you first learned to read and today, you begin to understand that it’s among your most ingrained habits - making it a very hard one to break. Unfortunately, the way that reading is taught to children and the optimal way to read are two very different things. Breaking old, 'normal' reading habits such as narrow visual angles or subvocalisation is a lot like learning to walk on your hands. It takes a lot of time, patience, and frustration. Daily practice is required to attain and retain the skill, and even the most skilled speed readers see a reduction in skill after prolonged periods of dormancy. So start reading more – today.
1. Ask, Why?
Adults are just like kids — we want to know why we need to learn something before undertaking the learning process. Identifying the value of the presented information will help you retain it. It’s our experience in the LiquidPlanner Customer Success group that when teams understand some of the direct advantages of using LiquidPlanner (e.g., increased productivity and ROI) they have faster, more successful implementations. Knowing the immediate and measurable benefits will have a direct effect on your motivation to actively learn it.
Tips:
- Determine the purpose of the training and how it will help you.
- Pay special attention to the learning objective that is stated in the beginning of the session.
2. Have good “Learner Hygiene”
No, this isn’t about the smelly kid in class. Having good “learner hygiene” means starting a training session with a clean mental space by eliminating distractions. We’ve all heard that multitasking is bad for business, but it’s especially true with the learning process. Under most conditions, the brain simply can’t do two complex tasks at the same time. Skimming over an email may not seem like a high-level cognitive task to you, but it is for your brain. When your attention is divided during the encoding process for a new piece of information, you won’t remember the information as well, if at all. So, do your brain a favor and don’t make it compete for cognitive resources because you just had to take your turn in Words With Friends.
Tips:
- Silence your phone and close your email.
- Make a conscious effort to actively listen and participate.
- Don’t worry about memorizing information.
3. Brandon Hakim technique
This is an online course by Brandon Hakim. In this course, Brandon Hakim will introduce you about his techniques on How To Read 300 Books This Year.
The course is rated 4.6 * on Udemy.com (the world's largest online learning site).
4. Build your background knowledge
Some of our best training sessions happen when our new customers have spent a bit of time exploring LiquidPlanner on their own. They’re familiar with the features, they’ve watched the videos, thought about how to model their workflow, formulated questions, and they know what specific areas they want to focus on. Or maybe they’ve simply tinkered with the product and want more information. In either case, the customers show up with their game faces on and are personally invested in the learning outcome. Even 15 minutes of self-directed learning will let us as trainers activate your prior knowledge and tackle topics that directly apply to you. Then, you can take those new skills and use them to solve real-world problems.
Tips:
- Read the trainer’s description or agenda.
- Spend some time going through the available help resources.
- Try out the program/process/skill on your own.
5. Kevin Horsley technique
This is a book from Kevin Horsley. In this book, Kevin Horsley will introduce you about his techniques about Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive.
The book is rated 4.7 * on amazon.com.
6. Visual Memory Trumps All Other Forms
As a student, you may have had a litany of mnemonics for studying and remembering. Acronyms, songs, and so on. But in reality, no method is as effective as visual images. Beyond this, visual imagery has evolved to be extremely fast; how else would your ancestors respond to that oncoming saber-tooth? For these reasons, converting every memory, concept, and fact into a series of carefully curated visual 'markers' comprises more than 60 percent of the skill of SuperLearning.
...and Memory is the First Skill You Should Train
Students are often to surprised to find that the first and largest portion of our 'speed reading' course is in fact intensive memory re-training. Besides the fact that most of society today has forgotten the ancient art of memory thanks to tools like writing utensils, printing presses, and computer, the primary reasoning for this emphasis is pretty simple. I can read a book like “The Tipping Point” in about two and a half hours, and I can teach you to do the same in about an hour. Unfortunately, the way you most likely create, store, and maintain memories will leave you with about a very poor understanding of the text at that speed. Students who train their memory intensively and “upgrade” their mental infrastructure to create dense linkages between memories before speed reading training enjoy 70-90 percent retention at those speeds and greater. This is the primary reason that most students fail to learn speed reading and dismiss it as bunk. As Woody Allen once said, “I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.” Clearly, it wasn’t a very good course.
7. Understand the Perils of Subvocalising
Once your memory infrastructure has been upgraded to accommodate a very rapid flow of information and store it in a visually-memorable fashion, your next step is to harness the speed and efficacy of the brain’s visual processing power. Once your brain is trained properly, your eyes can consume unbelievable quantities of information very quickly; however, by reading with your mind’s inner voice, or 'subvocalising', you are converting that information to the auditory channel, as far as the brain is concerned. This limits your speed to a maximum of 250 words per minute, and causes tremendous degradation on how memorable the information is.
8. Prepare for a Challenge
If you count the number of years between when you first learned to read and today, you begin to understand that it’s among your most ingrained habits - making it a very hard one to break. Unfortunately, the way that reading is taught to children and the optimal way to read are two very different things. Breaking old, 'normal' reading habits such as narrow visual angles or subvocalisation is a lot like learning to walk on your hands. It takes a lot of time, patience, and frustration. Daily practice is required to attain and retain the skill, and even the most skilled speed readers see a reduction in skill after prolonged periods of dormancy. So start reading more – today.
