Seven secrets of effective learning
In order to be successful and competitive, one must always work on oneself and educate oneself. In this process, effective methods developed for the successful assimilation of knowledge will help. What is the secret of effective knowledge acquisition?
Secret 1 – what is the secret of effectively using the first 20 minutes of studying very difficult material, not overstraining the brain and ensuring mastery of the type of training in the next minutes?
A person can only concentrate at a high level during the first 20 minutes.
After half an hour, as a result of the division of attention, the reception of information slows down to 60%, after 45 minutes to 40%. Therefore, knowledge with a high level of complexity becomes more and more difficult to understand after an hour.
Secret 2 – daily victory in class …
Make it a habit to evaluate your progress in class and after class. Such an approach will help you eliminate negative aspects of the learning process, increase learning motivation and independence.
Identify your shortcomings and try to overcome them. Do this exercise regularly. Then you start to control yourself and make mistakes less.
Secret 3 – connecting theory with practice.
Theoretical knowledge is strengthened and improved by practice.
Sometimes some words are familiar to us, but we don’t understand what they are talking about.
We cannot determine the meaning of the word. Are you familiar with this problem? What does our brain do with the information we don’t use?
That’s right, it puts it in a ‘remote archive’ so as not to waste energy.
The third secret to successful learning is to gain knowledge and skills through direct experience. This is exactly what it means to be ‘shy and lazy’, which means that the most important thing is to consciously apply the theoretical knowledge we have learned.
Secret 4 – imagination.
It’s no secret that imagination gives great opportunities to perceive information. However, it has one major drawback – it cannot store the received data for a long time. The brain’s attention filtration filters out unnecessary information to save brain energy.
American psychologist George Miller developed a theory called “Miller’s wallet” and later it became known as “7+_2”. The summary of the rule is that a person’s short-term memory cannot remember more than 9 objects.
Miller’s wallet
The short-term memory or a kind of “wallet” in the human brain can hold no more than “money” of “seven coins” of different values at the same time.
If they are more than seven or nine, the brain intuitively divides them into groups of 5 to 9. There is an inextricable connection between the efficiency of our work and the number 7.
Making a piano according to the 7+_2 rule helps to save time, solve various problems, and especially manage processes more effectively.
Miller’s experiments show that a person’s short-term memory, on average, remembers nine two-digit numbers, eight multi-digit numbers, seven letters of the alphabet, and five one-syllable words.
Secret 5 – to remember information for a long time
If you need to remember for a very long time:
the first repetition after the initial reading;
the second repetition 20-30 minutes after the first repetition;
the third repetition 1 day after the second;
the fourth repetition 2-3 weeks after the third;
the fifth repetition should be done 2-3 months after the fourth repetition.
Thus, the effective repetition method allows you to store four times more new information in memory than the traditional method.
