Rules of Living #4 - Learning Rapidly
Never thought this would be a Rule for Living, huh! But Learning Rapidly is one of the most important skills required of you as a human being. Imagine we forgot everything we learnt. We’d be worst than in the Stone Ages! No fire, no inventions, etc.
I think my greatest advantage is my ability to learn rapidly. I can literally dive into a field of expertise and start gaining the necessary skill and competence within a fraction of the time that others do. This is because I understand the issues surrounding learning and it has been my biggest forte thus far. This is the main reason why I can speak (fairly) well, develop websites, consult, counsel, build business plans, etc.
It’s important that you are constantly learning and developing your capabilities in learning. The faster you learn, the further ahead you will be. Digesting information will be simple for you. Here are some of the things you will need to look into:
- Command of language. With a good command of the language, you should be better able to learn. Most people are hindered by poor vocabulary or understanding of the English language. Learn to develop this further.
- Speed of reading. If you are speed reading, you should learn how to read not just pages or lines at a time, but books at a time. To do this, you need to understand how to eliminate bad reading habits and increase reading comprehension. You can learn a bit more at www.stuarttan.com/audio/rapid-learning.mp3.
- Problem-solving. This is a crucial skill because when you learn, you are often also seeking solutions for problems. By understanding the structure of problem solving, you will become a far better innovator and help to add value to the people around you.
- Speaking. Speaking and teaching people really is about integrating your skills. As a good learner, you should be able to teach others in order to get yourself going and getting them to understand how to learn or master something. This is a great way of exemplifying “See and you know. Hear and you understand. Teach, and you remember.” Or something like that. ;)
That’s it! Start developing these skills and building your abilities so that the next time a book dropped on your lap, it would be devoured in an instant…
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Hey Stuart speaking of speedreading, do u have any good books to recommend other than Buzan's speedreading book?
Haha... you will have to wait for mine to come out...
Stuart, as always..devouring entire books in a day sounds pretty impossible (well at least for me). Grrr..
Sounds like this will be a major goal for this year. Speed on!
hi Stuart, can you give me a suggestion other than listening to loud music during speed reading so tht i wont lose focus?..because i have this very bad habit of losing my focus if i read non fiction like history text...
I usually do active note-taking and set myself a time limit. Most of the time, as I read through, I am picking up important points. How do I know they are important? Because they help me to solve a problem!
Hi Daniel,
You need to learn to manage your state before you read
Secondly, you may want to skim through the entire text first and then next, pick up pace and push yourself a little faster since you're already familiar with the text...and so on...
Take my 2 cents advice: Instead of relying on External source (loud music) to push you, create a kind of 'blasting' sensation Internally to push yourself! Coz' the music may be blasting your ears off externally, but if internally, you're not 'blasting'... then the music is ofno use
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