Saturday 28 January 2017

13 Signs You’re A Pretty Quick Learner

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13 Signs You’re A Pretty Quick Learner
Casey Imafidon

According to a study it is discovered that fast learners (specifically language learners)
have more white matter and less symmetrical brains.
Learning fast or being a quick learner depends on how we use our brains.
Sometimes what seem so sophisticated needs the simplest solution.
Here is how to know if you are a pretty quick learner.

1. You are not afraid to say “I don’t know”
Pretty quick learners accept that they do not know it all.
They keep their minds open and are willing to ask questions and quiz for answers to know more. While some are reluctant are hesitant to show their ignorance on a subject, quick learners are not.

2. You use the Pareto principle
Quick learning has productivity attached to it. According to Vilfredo Pareto you get 80%
of your results from 20% of the things you do. Quick learners make use of this principle
by focusing on the fundamental and the most used items in a series of difficult tests. They don’t chase after the whole bunch at once but major their strength on the most necessary ones first.

3. You are able to visualize it
When dealt with problems, quick learners are multidimensional.
 They take advantage of how to deal with it with all their senses.
They visualize it by taking advantage of their mental powers to drive solutions and learning.

4. You simplify
Quick learners know that difficult problems do not need a difficult approach.
Many great minds from Thomas Edison to Henry Ford and even Steve Jobs looked for ways
to address challenges with simple solutions. They simplify and immerse themselves in their goals
to find the easiest and simplest way out of a hole.

5. You take action
After all is said and done, at the end of the day it is up to you to take action.
If you are learning a new language you really cannot make so much progress
if you do not speak the new language, whether you get it right or not.
Quick learners learn by doing and taking decisive action.

6. You are selective
You do not go after all the possible explanations or solutions to a problem. Rather you take your time to broadly consider those that are worthy of your attention and assessment.
Through this you are able to go after the most promising solutions available.

7. You use Parkinson’s Law
Tim Ferris, author of The 4-Hour Work Week points out that much can be gained by combining
the use of Parkinson’s law and Pareto’s principle to achieve solutions and learn faster.
While Pareto’s principle means streamlining to get more out of your time, Parkinson’s Law 
means you limit the time for learning so as to gain only the most important things.
Quick learners only allocate enough time to grasp only the most important part of a topic
and waste no time on the less important parts.

8. You know when to stop
Quick learners know when to stop and not to proceed.
If something is not going in an answerable pattern, they retreat. They understand the law
of diminishing returns and focus on only things that provide a return on their investment.

9. You know how to anticipate the future
What becomes old and stale is of no use to a quick learner;
rather they have to be able to adapt and anticipate future trends and situations.
You can focus on the future and how you can apply every topic you are learning to it.

10. You understand that many questions have no answers
Through selection you already have a sense of not going after the wrong questions or topics.
You already know that when a question is complicated and has so many threads attached to it,
there probably is no solution for it.

11. You can explain it to a kid
After immersing and absorbing yourself in a topic,
you can communicate your thoughts and opinions on the subject matter (even to a kid).

12. You are positive
Quick learners do not show any negative attitude to learning what is important to them.
They are positive even when they are faced with setbacks and challenges.

13. You can seek the opinions of experts
You know there are people who are better than you on a subject.
Nobody learns so much without dedicating themselves to the tutelage of a master!

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/13-signs-youre-pretty-quick-learner.html

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Sunday 22 January 2017

Erin Brockovich - Breaking out of the box.

Yellow Rattle.



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Monday 16 January 2017

How to Read a Book for Maximum Learning

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Tuesday 10 January 2017

Three thousand reasons to choose your reading carefully

 Salthills, Clitheroe. UK

Three thousand reasons to choose your reading carefully

The realisation that I’m a third of the way through all the books I can ever
has prompted me to take a stiffer line on those I bother with
According to the book review website Goodreads I recently finished reading my 1,000th book.
 They didn’t notify me of this, there’s no gold star on my profile and my book collection did not break into spontaneous applause (Harry Potter high-fiving Humbert Humbert, the Mitford sisters dancing
a celebratory can-can). But I knew the second I finished reading my 1,000th book
because I have been watching this day creep closer for four years.
Four years of diligently maintaining my Goodreads account, including two afternoons
carefully uploading every book I’d read since childhood. Give or take a few Where’s Wally? books
I can be fairly sure that We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie saw me reach
this milestone. Assuming I live into my 90s (which my penchant for pasties and panic attacks suggests is unlikely), I will read just over 3,000 books in my lifetime
– which doesn’t seem like an especially high number.
One reason I’d been eyeing up my 1,000th book so apprehensively is that it forces me to once again confront the fact that I don’t like a lot of the books I read. Out of the 1,000, I only enjoyed about 700. The other 300 were books I felt I had to read; classics that everyone told me
I was a fool to miss, awkward recommendations from people who thought that as a feminist
I love to read about rape, GCSE curriculum titles and a misguided attempt to appreciate Tom Wolfe. Another reason I feel a bit queasy about that 1,000th book is that a few years ago my Aunt Liz
was diagnosed with terminal cancer. She was 50 years old. When my phone rang with the news,
I was waiting for a light to change at a busy road. When I looked down at the book in my hand,
my thumb still marking the page, I realised how much Liz still had left to do.
Her wedding would have to be brought forward, goodbyes would be said,
a funeral would be planned. She would probably never read another book.
Finding out what the last book Liz read was is one of those questions I’ve never been able to ask. Instead, in the months leading up to her death I read constantly, three, four, five books at a time. Words were a way to push what was happening out of my head, and two years later I realised
I was a couple of books off my 1,000th. As Liz’s death had kick started a period of compulsive reading, I wanted the book to be relevant to her, something that would somehow make up for
all the books she would never read. Obviously no one book would ever manage that
(although for my activist aunt,  Adichie’s We Should All Be Feminists comes closer than most)
but the idea of a worthy book has stayed with me.
But what is a worthwhile read? If we can calculate how many books we will read in an uninterrupted lifetime, at what point should we draw the line? Life is short and books are long. We don’t get to read many of them and I’m starting to realise that some books don’t deserve to be among
my theoretical 3,000. Life is too short for Martin Amis. Life is too short for Ayn Rand. Life is too short for 1,000-plus pages of Infinite Jest and life is too short to give Philip Roth another chance.
I’m beginning to suspect that life might be too short for Virginia Woolf and John Updike.
I’m undecided on whether life is long enough for George Eliot, but it’s definitely too short
to miss out on Octavia Butler’s work because of being busy trying to like Joseph Heller.
The books that deserve a place among my remaining 2,000 reads are those with an idea that excites me. I’m making room for novels like Blonde Roots by Bernardine Evaristo, Sirius by Olaf Stapledon, The City and the City by China MiĆ©ville, Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor, We Were Liars by E Lockhart,
The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane and The Suicide Club by Robert Louis Stevenson.
 I’m going to spend more time reading authors I enjoy and relate to, either because of their use
of language (Jackie Kay, Toni Morrison, Monique Roffey, Andrea Levy and Orhan Pamuk)
or their subject matter (Jenni Fagan, Jhumpa Lahiri, HG Wells and Kazuo Ishiguro).
In short; I’m going to demand more from the books I read.
I’ve got 2,000 books left to read, at best, and I intend to be ruthless in choosing them.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2015/jan/19/three-thousand-books-choose-reading-carefully

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You can TCR music, poetry or self development material for internal knowing.
I can Turbo Charge Read a novel 6-7 times faster and remember what I’ve read.
I can TCR an instructional/academic book around 20 times faster and remember what I’ve read.
Introduction to Turbo Charged Reading YouTube
A practical overview of Turbo Charged Reading YouTube 
How to choose a book. A Turbo Charged Reading YouTube
Emotions when Turbo Charged Reading YouTube

Advanced Reading Skills Perhaps you’d like to join my FaceBook group ?

Perhaps you’d like to check out my sister blogs:
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www.ourinnerminds.blogspot.com               which takes advantage of the experience and expertise of others.
www.happyartaccidents.blogspot.com        just for fun.

To quote the Dr Seuss himself, “The more that you read, the more things you will know.
The more that you learn; the more places you'll go.”