This document discusses effective learning strategies. It argues that learning is about becoming educated rather than just improving grades. The wrong approach is to focus only on memorization and spending more time, which can cause frustration. Instead, students should find effective ways of learning that make it a stepping stone to success. The document provides strategies for "studying smart" including teachback sessions, daily reading, writing, speaking, and thinking exercises. It emphasizes starting these habits now rather than procrastinating, as tomorrow may not come if action is not taken today. The goal is for students to overcome themselves as their own worst enemy in learning and become life-long learners.

1. Learning 2 Learn 201 Mohan Joseph Bernard

2. Let's be Serious!
Bad news this talk is not just about improving GPA - SHORTSIGHTED
APPROACH
Good news, it is about becoming EDUCATED, LEARNED...

3. What is Learning?
Memorizing...
Learning is Hard...
Overcome hardship by spending more time - WRONG
Finding effective ways of learning - RIGHT

4. Consequences: Wrong approach to Learning
• Friction -> prevents enjoyment -> pain
instead of pleasure...slack
• Learning becomes barrier instead of
stepping stone to success
• Your goal is to be EDUCATED and not
become a BLACK BOX

5. Who is Your greatest enemy
when it comes to learning well?
• Beware of no one more than of
yourself; we carry our worst enemies
within us. ~ Charles Spurgeon

6. What do you wish to take? Why?

7. There is no free lunch

8. Success!Cost?

9. To Get Success
What will you do?

10. Secondary
School
Higher
Education

11. Study Hard

12. Study Smart
What will you do?

13. How to study smart?
PRINCIPLE OF SOWING AND
REAPING

14. Teachback
• Teach peers what you learnt
• You learn better as you are forced to
use your own words to teach
• Take turns to teach your study group
members
• Will it work?

16. Read Write Speak Think

17. Read...Write...Speak...Think
• READ
• Read SCMP aloud daily for 15 mins
• Guaranteed to transform your understanding
of written text & speaking skills
• How to Read a Book: Mortimer J Adler
• Story of Namashivayam

18. Read...Write...Speak...Think
• WRITE
• Pen a half page journal every day
on any topic
• Use short simple sentences
• Story of the Typist

19. Read...Write...Speak...Think
• SPEAK
• Look at the mirror & speak on any topic
for 5 mins daily
• Record, listen & consider what changes
are required
• Toastmaster

20. Speak
Avoid Bad Presentations

21. Avoid Bad Presentations
TURNING THE LIGHTS OFF
• What are you saying to the audience?
• I worked hard on my slides...
• I am comfortable as the audience is
looking at the slides, not me
• Slides are important, I'm not...

22. Avoid Bad Presentations
RELYING ON ONE LEG OF THE STOOL
• 1. Content
• 2. Delivery
• 3. Visual Presentation
• Too much reliance on any one leg will
make you fall
• Balanced approach = common sense

23. Is there POWER
behind your
PowerPoint?
PowerPoint Karaoke
Too much content on a slide +
Too many slides =
PowerlessPoint

24. Avoid Bad Presentations
DON'T BREAK COMMANDMENT # 1
• Thou shall not READ the slides
• Smiling is welcome, laughing is not
cool, it simply tells you are nervous
• Content unexplained adds '0' value to
your presentation

25. Read...Write...Speak...Think
• THINK
• Revising a topic -> superficial
understanding
• Thinking critically -> deeper
understanding
• Reflection enables you to use
complex ideas and concepts

26. Read...Write...Speak...Think
• THINK
• Use framework or models for thinking
• Categories
• Tables, Matrix...
• Thinking on your feet

27. Think

28. When will you
start to do?
What will you
do?

29. Will you act right now?
It is always easy to act
tomorrow...
...tomorrow will never
come if you don't act
right now!
"A year from now you will wish you
had started today"

30. LifeLife

31. Bonsai or Sherman?

32. Most locked doors
are in your
mind

33. Ancora Imparo

34. Questions?

35. God Luck