Tips to keep learning and remembering
Posted on: 29/Jan/2018 2:33:16 PM
Authors of the book Make It Stick: The Science Of Successful Learning say that people need to keep learning and remembering all their lives. The ability to learn new things is perhaps one of the most important skills a person can possess. Two of the authors are psychology professors at Washington University in St Louis.
An article was published in the "The Independent", in which the authors say, Getting ahead at work takes mastery of job skills and difficult colleagues. If you`re good at learning, you have an advantage in life. To learn something is to be able to remember it. Unfortunately, lots of the techniques for learning that one picks up as youngsters do not help with long-term recall.
Here are a few learning tips:
Flash cards are a great example to recall something from memory. They force a person to recall an idea from memory. The reason retrieval is so effective is that it strengthens the neural pathways associated with a given concept. Psychologists call it the ‘testing effect.’
The more one can explain new learning relates to prior knowledge. According to the authors, the stronger one’s grasp of new learning is the more connections one create and the better one remembers it later.
Working on a variety of things at the same go causes interleaving. Interleaving helps because it helps a person better comprehend a situation to find a solution.
When one wades into the unknown, puzzling through it, they are far more likely to learn and remember solutions than if somebody sat down to teach them the answers.
When one gets feedback that reveals their ignorance. Calibration, according to the authors, is simply the act of using an objective instrument to clear away illusions and adjust your judgment to better reflect reality.
