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• This tutorial will comprise three parts:
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Conditioning for effective learning
• 3. Methods and tools applied to learn and study effectively.
• Aims of the tutorial
• Audience of the tutorial
Opening:
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• Do we need to study better?
• Why do we have to learn effectively/differently than before?
• What methods do you know/apply momently/previously?
• stories regarding effective learning ? !
• Sharing experience
• Time management
Introduction:
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• Brain has 100 billion neurons each connected to 10,000 other neurons, generating up to 70,000
thoughts per day
• Is it fixed: neurons vs neuroplasticity?
• Why are we suffering then? from lack of focus, attention, memory, analysis, and …..
• What percentage of it used in average? what is possible?
• Digital age and brain: Deluge, distractions, dementia and deduction
• Maguire and London caps
Intro.Brain:
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The process of acquiring new skill (Four Levels of competence):
1. Unconscious incompetence
2. Conscious incompetence
3. Conscious competence
4. Unconscious competence
Well, what it takes you to progress from level 1 to 4?
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1. Spatial, thinks from the perspective of the space around them, pilots, space exploration
2. Bodily-Kinesthetics, body as a form of expression or problem solving, Gymnasium, drummers
3. Musical, A person sensitive to rhythm, pitch, tone or melody, musicians
4. Linguistic, attuned to all implication of words, writers, orators, lawyers, Shakespeare, Hadrawi
5. Logical-mathematical: comfortable of seeking connections between different numbers, scientists, Einstein
6. Interpersonal: innate ability to connect with other people and how others feel, Oprah Winfrey
7. Intrapersonal: Refines sense of what is going inside self; people in this category take their own
temperature, Mahatma Gandhi
8. Naturalistic: Has ability to see the world of nature in all its complexities. Zoologists
Intro:intelligenceforms,Dr.HowardGardner,fromHarvardGSE
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• V is for Visual, you tend to learn through illustrations, charts, video, and other visual media
• A is for Auditory, learning by listening, either to a lecture, a discussion, a podcast, an audiobook
• K is for Kinesthetic, learn via physical interaction and hands on training .
Conditioning:learningstylemodel,VAC,1920
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• Free your self from any limiting believe/myths:
• Intelligence is fixed
• You can’t change your old methods
• low confidence and self esteem
• vicious cycle, hostile environment and toxic circle.
Conditioningforeffectivelearning
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• Thought processes and how to change it:
• Incremental and exponential
Conditioningcont.
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• Ask your self these questions: What are you doing? Why are you doing it? at this time? in this
manner? Any alternatives?
• You goals should be SMART: Specific, Measurable, Actionable, Realistic, and time-based
• Learn your primary personality types and motives as well as Secondary ones ( Achievement,
Aggressive, Gregarious, Power, Acquisition, and curiosity motives).
Conditioning: Self-awareness,Motive,purpose,andGoal
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• Understand your brain and the state you are in.. One may ask, what are you feeling now? what has
caused it? what can you do about it? change it or accept it?
• Adequate hydration
• Good sleep at night..sleep cycles and the benefits of routine.
• Diet…less in blain sugar, gluten.…nuts, fruits and vegs, sea food (solmon), eggs,
• Excercise: Cardio is preferable but any form of it is fine at least 30mins 3*/week.
• Enriched environment vs hostile one.
• Time management aligned with concrete plan ….and avoid cramming at all costs! to kill
procrastination!
Cont.Conditioning
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1. Discipline for the mind
2. Can’t always google it?!
3. Creates repertoire of what we think; and we think with ideas held in our working memory
4. Its’ exercise develops learning and memory scheme which promotes improved learning.
Memory:whyimprovingitisessential?
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• M: Motivation; convince your self the value in retaining a memory and there is good chance that
you will do.
• O: Observations; condition your self to be truly present in any situation where you want to
remember something
• M: Methods…try to explore once on your own and will let you know of some: Now observe these
12 words in 30 seconds and then try to recall. Rote learning?/picture in your mind? making a
story about it? word substitution? Loci method?
• Other tricks: Visualization, Association, Emotion, Location.
• The nutshell: There is no good memory or bad memory but trained and untrained.
Howtokickupyourmemory:MOM
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1. Active recalling
2. Spaced repetition
3. Manage the state you are in: mood/feelings/posture: sitting straight and seeing from angle is
preferable then lying down or slumped that could interfere your breathing. Think that you are
studying the most import in life.
4. Use your sense of smell?! How? Why?
5. Beats for the mind: Binaural beats/alpha brain waives/Baroque music with 60 to 80 beats per
minute; improves mood and leads to deep concentration in the alpha brain wave state
MethodstoBetterstudying:
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6. Listen with your whole brain: brain can digest 400 words/minute; Employ HEAR;
Halt, Empathy, Anticipate, and Review technique to enhance your listening.
7. Take note of taking notes: With intention and desired goal in your own words after processing.
may apply Capture and Create. preferably with longhand. On average people handwrite 10 to 12
words/minute while the average speaker speaks 100 words per minute.
Tips to your note taking: TIP; Tis for think, I is Identify and Prioritize.
Cont.Meth.
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• Kicks your brain into gear, by doing more than one function
• Improves your memory,
• Improves focus
• Improves vocabulary
• Improves your imagination
• improves understanding
Meth:ReadingandSpeedReading,why?
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• Average person reads 150 to 250 words per minute
• If you are reading below 100 words per minutes the material may be difficult
• If a person reads 200 words per minute and studies for 4 hours a day and other one reads 400
words per minute, the second will need only 2 hours to do the same amount of reading of the
first one.
• Challenges like word regression, outdated models from your reading classes during college, and
subvocalization
Assesyourreadingspeedandworkonit
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• Now it is time to take a test, and keep testing your 4 to 10 mins every day, and then see the
progress after each months. You may compare your outcome with your current reading speed
to keep training and improving on that skill.
• The 20 R 2 B is a method you may apply to increase retention in speed reading.
cont.
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• Moonwalking with Einstein: the art and science of remembering everything, Joshua Foer.
• Limitless, by Jim kwick
• The importance of remembering, Eve harder
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5577906/
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