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Iker T.

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Build on what you know

When you have to learn something new, try to associate it with something you are already familiar with. Then you only have to learn where it differs. You'll also be able to apply greater context, which will help with memory storage and retrieval.

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These 10 Scientific Ways to Learn Anything Faster Could Change Everything You Know About Dramatically Improving Your Memory

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How to Remember Anything You Really Want to Remember, Backed by Science

So what can you do if you need remember something important? Adam Grant took a deep dive into memory research to found a simple answer. (Adam is an organizational psychologist, best-selling author, host of the superb podcast WorkLife, co-founder of Givitas, and nice enough to provide a blurb for my book.)

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Quiz yourself

This is an extremely effective way to speed up the learning process.

If you quiz yourself and answer incorrectly, you are more likely to remember the right answer after you look it u...

Summarize and share

Even just thinking that you'll need to teach someone can make you learn more effectively.

Teaching means seeking out key points and organizing information into a coherent structure.

Use associative learning

Connect what you just learned to experiences you previously had.

Associative learning is the process of relating something new to something you already know.

Brantley H.

@brarh235

7 Memory Skills That Will Make You Smarter

Learning ability is probably the most important skill you can have. Take it from Peter Brown, Henry Roediger, and Mark McDaniel, authors of " Make It Stick: The Science Of Successful Learning." "We need to keep learning and remembering all our lives," they write.

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"Learning is deeper and more durable when it's effortful... Learning that's easy is like writing in sand, here today and gone tomorrow."

- Make It Stick: The Science Of Suc...

Bring it back from memory

Retrieval is so effective is that it strengthens the neural pathways associated with a given concept.

When you're attempting to recall an idea, method, or technique from memory, you're retrieving. Flash cards are a great example: They force you to recall an idea from memory, unlike a technique like highlighting where you're not burning anything into your brain.

Connect new ideas

... to what you already know.

When you try to put a new idea into your own words, you're elaborating.

For example, if you're in physics class and trying to understand heat transfer, try to tie the concept into your real-life experiences, say, by imagining how a warm cup of coffee disperses heat into your hands.

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Musa

@musa81

8 Ways To Help You Learn Everything Faster

You go to the gym to train your muscles. You run outside or go for hikes to train your endurance. Or, maybe you do neither of those, but still wish you exercised more. Well, here is how to train one of the most important parts of your body: Your brain.

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“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”

Albert Einstein

Boost Learning Speed

Learners proficient in fast-paced games are significantly faster at performing new cognitive tasks.
By pretending you are teaching something to someone using simple language, you understand it better.
Bilingual people may have a leg up when it comes to understanding new things and processing information, regardless of the learned language.
Learning new material right before sleeping provides a significant retention advantage.
Establishing as many connections as possible is an effective way to learn, and the best way to do that is to relate new information to known information.
The brain processes visual information faster than text. Include relevant visuals (charts, symbols, diagrams…) with learning materials to improve retention.

Perceptual Learning

Is the idea that we learn unconsciously through our senses in a self-regulated way, without requiring external reinforcement.

More simply, you can learn to intuitively identify different situations or images through directly experiencing them in a fast-paced manner.

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