10 TIPS TO LEARN FASTER

10 TIPS TO LEARN FASTER.

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Here are 10 tips to learn faster that I collected from all sources in internet. I hope it helps.

1. Mistakes should be celebrated and studied.

Being perfect is overrated. The entire point of learning is to make attempts, fail, and find a lesson about where you went wrong.

In 2014, a study of motor learning found the brain has more or less reserved a space for the mistakes we make. Later, we can recruit those memories to do better next time.

If parents teach kids never to make mistakes, or shun them when mistakes happen, kids end up missing a wealth of knowledge.

2. Use SuperLearner technique

SuperLearner technique will teach you how to hack your learning, reading, and memory skills, empowering you to learn anything and everything faster and more effectively.

This technique have learnt by 50,000 students in the world.

Here are more detail: SuperLearner technique

3. Connect your life goals with what you want to learn.

If you want to learn something faster, you must first know the connection between your learning goals and your dream life.

I tell people all the time, don’t just come up with things you want to learn, because guess what, we want to learn everything. Everyone wants to learn 50 new things immediately, but no one ever learns anything. Why? Because it’s not real for them—it’s a transient desire. If you want to become a great learner, it has to be attached to a dream life of yours, a true lifestyle that you see for yourself.

4. Break free from routines

Contrary to what most people believe, science proves that you don’t essentially learn more and faster by practicing the exact same thing several times. A study shows that making slight changes during repeat practice sessions may help people master the skill faster than practicing the task in precisely the same way.

Injecting variety into learning a new skill may help fast track your progress and give you positive results earlier than expected. For instance, athletes like tennis players might practice a mix of forehands, backhands, and volleys altogether which way may initially feel harder than focusing on a single skill at a time.

5. Do something different repeatedly

By actually doing something new over and over again, your brain wires new pathways that help you do this new thing better and faster.

Think back to when you were three years old. You surely were strong enough to hold a knife and a fork just fine. Yet, when you were eating all by yourself, you were creating a mess.

It was not a matter of strength, you see. It was a matter of cultivating more and better neural pathways that would help you eat by yourself just like an adult does.

And guess what? With enough repetition you made that happen!

But how does this apply to your life right now?

Say you are a procrastinator. The more you don’t procrastinate, the more you teach your brain not to wait for the last minute to make things happen.

Now, you might be thinking “Duh, if only not procrastinating could be that easy!”

Well, it can be. By doing something really small, that you wouldn’t normally do, but is in the direction of getting that task done, you will start creating those new precious neural pathways.

So if you have been postponing organizing your desk, just take one paper and put in its right place. Or, you can go even smaller. Look at one piece of paper and decide where to put it: Trash? Right cabinet? Another room? Give it to someone?

You don’t actually need to clean up that paper; you only need to decide what you need to do with it.

That’s how small you can start. And yet, those neural pathways are still being built. Gradually, you will transform yourself from a procrastinator to an in-the-moment action taker.

6. Follow an example. Don’t reinvent the wheel.

If you want to learn something, you need to be able to model something. You need to be able to see somebody who’s already done it. You need to be able to read about somebody who’s already done it. You need to experience somebody who’s already done it.

The worst thing you can do in learning is start from scratch. With no foundation of what’s worked before, you’re just making stuff up, which is the slowest way to learn.

The wheel was invented a couple thousand years ago as you know, so the worst thing you can do is say, “Let me start trying a bunch of stuff.” That’s not learning; that’s called being an idiot, and being an idiot is about bumbling through life without realizing someone has already done it for you.

7. Be adventurous

According to a researcher, learning becomes more effective (rather than it being passive) by exploring different locations. It is also connected to the fact that learning does not solely happen within the four corners of a room. Sometimes you have to exert an effort to explore different work places to see how it can benefit you in terms of retention and absorption of information. Science explains that different environmental cues can be associated to a certain material or skill that you’re trying to learn which makes it easier to recall later on.

This can also be applied in your quest for financial success. It’s good to be adventurous in terms of expanding your financial options as early as possible. While you’re working to boost your savings, think about the future by opening an IRA.

8. Discontinue multitasking

Multiple research have concluded that turning into multitasking decreases your productivity and performance levels. This is also the reason why it’s hard to finish a book or master a skill, because you’re always interrupted by social media break or whatnot.

You can amplify your learning habits by staying focused on one activity at a time. Switching from one task to another will not only delay your progress but will also detract your cognitive ability to absorb/retain new information.

In a forum, Xerox CEO Ursula Burns emphasized the need pick specific places where you want to be great, rather than focusing your energies into many different things which is technically not feasible.

9. Writing down what you've learned helps cement it in your mind.

If you want to translate information to knowledge, research suggests you should be writing down what you learn - by hand.

A 2014 study found that students who took notes on pen and paper learned more than students who typed notes on their laptops. Over a battery of tests, the pen-and-paper group were more adept at remembering facts, sorting out complex ideas, and synthesising information.

Researchers say the physical act of touching pen to paper creates a stronger cognitive link to the material than merely typing, which happens far too quickly for retention to take place. Writing forces you to confront ideas head-on, which leads them to stick with you over time.

10. Have a deadline.

How fast do you need to learn that? How fast do you need to master that? Is it something you’re going to master this month, this year, this next decade?

Without a timeline for developing your competencies, you’ll never act or you’ll fall off track. No deadline means guaranteed distraction. So, WHEN do you need to learn this new topic or reach the next level of skill? What’s the consequence if you don’t learn it by then?

Available sources:

• 8 Ways to Train Your Brain to Learn Faster and Remember More
• 11 Scientific Tips That Will Help You Learn Anything Faster - And Actually Remember It
• 5 Ways to Learn Anything Faster and Better, According to Science