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by Patrick Magee
author of Brain Dancing


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• Periodically review the mental processes you use to learn and optimize them based on an ever increasing understanding of how your brain/mind works.
• Model successful people. One of the most important lessons you will ever learn is that there is just far too much information in this world for one person to learn it all. There are in fact, an infinite number of ways to solve any problem. The smartest way to solve any significant problem is to find people who are already successfully solving similar problems. "Success leaves clues," teaches Jim Rohn
• Accelerate your journey along the compound learning curve by periodically reviewing core terminology and concepts in order to transfer them to long term memory. This will allow you to traverse new material quicker and minimize time wasted relearning the same material.
• Utilize spaced repetition to take advantage of the subconscious incubation process. Put time on your side by starting to learn something immediately, even if only for 5 minutes a time.
• Learning is achieved by increasing your capacity for effective action, not by merely acquiring knowledge. When learning any new topic, find a reason to learn it faster and you will: somebody to help, a speech to deliver, a problem to solve, somebody to teach. This will turn your learning from passive information gathering towards active application, and will focus your attention on the highly useful core fraction of material to be understood.
• Use a 2 phase approach: Orientation and Project: Begin the process of learning any new subject by setting a fixed time limit to orient yourself to new material. Do high-level scans over as much available information as possible during this time limit. Create a Mind Map of available information sources to reference when you are in the thick of things solving a problem.
•Interview with Howard Gardner on "multiple intelligences."
• A whitepaper on learning in the information age
• Learning to Learn: Thinking and Learning Skills Website at the University of Toronto.

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