Whole brain super learning ability

Chapter 5 Techniques for Breakthrough Learning (3)
In addition to the habit of saving time, previewing is also a good habit.We all know that listening to lectures is a very important part of learning, and previewing is helpful for understanding the lectures.A person who has worked hard on the preview, thinks about the content of the textbook in advance, finds out the relevant information, marks the unclear points first, and pays special attention when listening to the class, then he has a good understanding of the content he has learned. 50% understanding.If you participate in the class, you will increase your understanding of the learning content.If you plan to use scattered time and weekends and holidays to review what you have learned, you may understand more than 50% of the learning content.Conversely, if a person attends the class directly without preview time, the degree of understanding will definitely be compromised because he does not know the content in advance.

For example, if people who have previewed can understand 70% of the class after listening to the class, those who have not previewed may only understand 50% after listening to the class. The absorption can only reach 70%.Therefore, to improve learning efficiency, pre-class preview is an indispensable element.This is a state of mind effect, like a sinking boat.Forming a pre-existing habit is just one example, but forming the habit of waking up early can also help a lot.Many people go to school at 9 o'clock, but they have to get up at 8 o'clock, wash and tidy up in a hurry, and then rush to school.In fact, if you get up half to an hour earlier, you can not only make time more abundant, but also use the morning time to think about the day's study in advance.You can also enjoy breakfast happily and calmly, which can avoid eating breakfast while studying, or gobble up food in a hurry, which will not only hurt your body, but also affect your learning efficiency.

Furthermore, many ideas are thought up in the early morning. If you can develop the habit of getting up early, in addition to having more time, it will also be of great help to the study of the day. "A day's plan lies in the morning" is not unreasonable.

Continuing the habit problem above, if you can develop the habit of preparing in advance, instead of waiting for things to come, it will be a positive help to your time management, and it can reduce the damage caused by emergencies. waste of time.

Maybe you don't have the habit of sorting out the materials or items needed for tomorrow's class before going to bed. Starting today, you might as well cultivate the habit of preparing in advance.

Just imagine, when your mind is stable and you are not in a hurry, it doesn't take much time to prepare the materials or supplies you need the next day or 3 hours later, and you can definitely get everything ready.However, if you wait until your ass is on fire to start preparing, the situation is completely different. At this time, you may rummage through boxes and cabinets and rush to find what you need. .

In fact, you prepared the school supplies you need today before going to bed last night, which may only take 5 minutes; if you wait until you wake up to prepare, it will take more than 5 minutes. In addition to affecting the time to go out, It also took up a good time in the early morning.

An academically accomplished female student at Harvard University, Mary Sunny developed a habit of preparing ahead of time.In the past, after she got up every day, she spent the most time putting on makeup and choosing what to wear.Later, she discovered that it didn't take much time to get dressed, but looking at the sky outside the window and anticipating whether the weather would be hot or cold today, and then choosing what to wear took up most of the time.So she changed her habit and read the weather forecast the night before, and prepared the clothes she should wear tomorrow before going to bed, so she didn't need to spend a lot of time choosing clothes after waking up.

We emphasize the importance of preparation in advance, which has a lot of scientific basis.For learning or activities, thinking and preparing in advance is the performance of using time, and you will never be nervous or behave abnormally at critical moments.

Many students have had this experience—the usual performance is excellent, but their performance is abnormal in the face of the big test; those who participated in the talent competition were unable to perform at their normal level because of their nervousness; It can be seen that stress has a powerful destructive force on the operation of the brain, and it directly inhibits the thinking and reaction function of the brain.

In response to this, Dr. Harper Benson put forward the idea of ​​using "relaxation response" to develop learning effects, emphasizing that in a state of relaxation, brain waves can produce the most suitable wave band for learning, and blood and oxygen can smoothly enter the brain to operate and accelerate human learning.

Therefore, learn to relax yourself, let the instinctive learning function fully play, and the learning effect will be doubled.There are many ways to relieve stress, such as:

1. Take a deep breath;

2. Sit quietly;
3. 10 minutes ahead of schedule;

4. Find out the cause of the stress.

Psychologists point out that deep breathing not only has the effect of calming the mind, but also makes the brain waves enter a stable state.Many experiments have shown that during the test, when learners feel that the questions are difficult and cause stress, if they take a few deep breaths first, they can stabilize themselves.Its problem-solving effect is greatly increased.Secondly, meditation is also a very good way to relieve stress. Through meditation and meditation, the peace and stability of the body and mind can be enhanced.

Of course, many people are tense and unable to relax because of the stress caused by past mistakes.In fact, mistakes are inevitable, and the best way to avoid them is not to exaggerate them blindly.

Mistakes are inevitable. If you blindly exaggerate your mistakes, you will only have greater frustration and inferiority complex, making yourself decadent and falling into a vicious circle.At this time, you should calm down as soon as possible, patiently find out the cause of the mistake and take corresponding countermeasures.Don't blindly exaggerate mistakes, scold yourself, overemphasize a certain shortcoming related to it, or even go overboard infinitely.You should tell yourself: "I just make mistakes occasionally", "I will do better".Resolutely cross out the words "always" and "every time" in "I'm always flustered" and "I read the wrong question every time", so that the "self-suggestion" faces the front, so that I won't make the same mistake next time. mistake.Make the mood comfortable and get back the lost confidence.

In the process of marching towards the goal, people often have a tendency: those who are often successful will set their goals higher and higher, which is beyond reach; those who often fail, their goals will be set lower and lower, which is very depressed.As a result, they are unable to formulate goals according to their own situation, making it difficult for them to achieve the expected goals.

Due to the influence of psychology, setting goals based on the number of successes or failures and being divorced from reality is the main reason for such deviations and mistakes.

Some questions were supposed to be done, but because I was very confident, I took it lightly, and I didn’t check it carefully after I finished it, so I made a mistake instead.

In order to prevent this situation from recurring, it is necessary to have a correct valuation of yourself, that is, to have self-knowledge, and to understand that mistakes often occur in people who are particularly confident or take it lightly.

There is such a joke.The father asked his son who had just entered the first grade: "What is 2 plus 3?" If you read too hard, you cannot be flexible in the exam. Once you encounter exam questions with the same content but different ways of asking, you will answer wrongly, and even make jokes.This means that we will not relax ourselves, you have to study with a happy mood, and draw inferences from one instance, then your grades will definitely improve rapidly.

Maintain a good mental state, while mastering theoretical knowledge, pay attention to the training of learning skills and the flexible use of learned knowledge, so as to minimize mistakes.Once you develop good study habits, you will definitely get unexpected gains in your studies.

your current learning ability

Are you satisfied with your learning ability?Are you aware of your current learning ability?Learning ability is our ability to learn new things. The higher your learning ability, the better you are at learning.It is not an easy task to reflect on yourself honestly and thoroughly.It is very necessary for you to know the level of your own learning ability. The following test will help you evaluate the pros and cons of your own learning methods. This is a necessary step for you to truly understand yourself and know where you should focus your learning. You According to the results of the assessment, you can decide the learning environment and learning style that suit you, and you can classify subjects according to your likes and dislikes and your performance in school.

Next, the seven basic study skills covered in this book: study methods, time management, memory development, reading and comprehension, study notes, writing articles, and preparing for exams, all of which require you to focus on your current grades and your Self-rated knowledge of these important skills.

A: means very skilled or close to skilled;

B: It means a little proficient;
C: It means not very proficient or not at all.

Remember, there is no right or wrong answer for this grading—that is, there is no so-called pass or fail.This is just the beginning, the purpose is to set a reference point against which you can measure your progress in the future, and to highlight which skills you need to work on most.

The basic study skills are listed below, but before you read on, grab a separate piece of paper and rate yourself on each of the seven skills (ranging from "how to study" to "preparing for tests") in turn.After the grade is finished, calculate according to the calculation of 2 points for A, 1 point for B, and 0 points for C, and add up the points. If your score is equal to or more than 10 points, it is excellent (give yourself an A), 6 points If it reaches 10 points, it is good (give yourself a B), if it is less than 6 points, it means mediocre (give yourself a C), and write this final score after the "preliminary learning ability score".

Now, let's take a look at these various techniques again, so that you can better understand what "average", "good" and "excellent" mean.As you see each paragraph, fill in your ratings in the table on the next page—be honest with yourself.This scale can be used as a benchmark against which you can assess your progress.Save this list and compare it when you're done reading it.

your starting point
Preliminary score of learning ability A ( ) B ( ) C ( )

Learning method A ( ) B ( ) C ( )

Memory development A ( ) B ( ) C ( )

Time management A ( ) B ( ) C ( )

Reading ability A ( ) B ( ) C ( )

Study notes A ( ) B ( ) C ( )

Write an article A ( ) B ( ) C ( )

Preparing for Exam A ( ) B ( ) C ( )

Overall reading skill level A ( ) B ( ) C ( )

learning method test
Do you feel that your learning method is very effective?There is an article below, the content is about Indians, you can use the method you usually think is the most effective to study, and see if it is effective through your previous learning methods.

The Indians of the prairies were warriors and hunters of buffalo.They are the best riders in the world.An Indian riding a horse at a gallop could lean against the side of the horse to protect himself from an enemy, then, with one foot dangling, could shoot an arrow from under the horse's neck, or get up straight in a second Come, attack with spears.

When hunting, the Indians rode horses galloping beside the running herds and killed one bison after another with arrows or spears.Cattle hunting was both a sport and a necessity of life for the Prairie Indians.This is because they need beef for food and hides for clothing or shelter.Unless they get some cloth from merchants, their clothes are generally made of bison and antelope skins.The teepees or pointed huts you see in many pictures are also usually made of cowhide.

Most Prairie Indians hunted cattle year-round, but it was luck to hunt many cattle in winter.The snow is deep and the wind is cold on the grassland.When spring comes, they follow them to the meadows where the cattle graze in summer.The best hunting season has arrived, and thousands of bison gather on the grasslands.All the Indian warriors came out quietly on horseback to attack the cattle, and the women followed behind to flay and cut the downed cattle.In this harvest season, hunt enough animals for food all winter long.

From April to October, the various tribes have been wandering with the cattle.Hunting is their main occupation.Then came the wars, the fighting between the tribes continued year after year.A brave knight might become a chief and become a famous figure in the tribe.

score:

If you can sum up the heart of this passage in one sentence and tell when the Indians were wandering, you get an A; if you can answer when the Indians were best During the hunting period, you can get a B; if you can only give an overview of the material studied, you can only get a C.

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