How to Improve Your Ability to Learn Quickly
Unless you are a God gifted, learning does not happen by osmosis. Quick learning ability plays a very vital role in the success of a person in not only the educational field but the practical life as well. If you think you are not born with a sharp learning ability, then still you do not need to give up as there are certain ways that you adopt in order to improve your ability to learn quickly. The basic and the most important thing you have to keep in your mind is, do not give up and stick to your aim until you improve your ability to learn things speedily.
Instructions
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Identify your optimal learning style
The very first thing you have to do is, identifying your most favorable learning style. According to research’s findings, there are three major types of learners. First comes the visual learners, the ones who learn best by seeing information. Second are the Tactile, hands-on or Kinesthetic Learners, the ones who learn best by moving their bodies. Third are the auditory learners, the ones who learn things by hearing information. If you have yet not identified your learning style, then do not waste more time and find it out to make learning easy for yourself.
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Prioritize the learning material
Now, come towards the learning materials or situation and line them up according to their nature of importance. For example, if you are a student or a professional individual and you have been assigned various learning related tasks, then you really have to keep their importance and due date in mind. Once you prioritize them, things will become easy for you and you will be spending less time in learning them. On the other hand, without a proper planning you won’t be able to learn them properly or within the assigned time.
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Play interactive games
Get some help from your family members or friends in improving your learning ability. Ask them come along with you in interactive games. Watch a specific program or read piece of information and ask the next person to ask you some question out of it. Such healthy activities motivate you to learn things with interest and to remember them.
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Think about the output of learning
Human interest in doing or learning things lie in the output they get. So, think about the return of learning a specific thing as it develops your interest in learning that thing quickly. For example, if you are a student and you have a test, then think about the appreciation that you are going to get from your teacher, friends and family. You can think of the monetary aspects of an outcome and so many other examples according to the phase of life you are currently enjoying.
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Do not compromise on your sleep and nutrition
Proper sleeping hours and a balanced nutrition plan are necessary for improving your learning ability. Besides balance diet, you can increase the consumption of Ginkgoes, Ginseng, rosemary, green tea, etc in your daily life to sharpen your brain, which automatically helps in improving the learning skills. Secondly, make sure to sleep for 7 to 8 hours per day. For kids, it should be 8 to 10 hours per day.
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Group discussions are helpful
Group discussions make things clear and easy to understand, which then become simple to learn. The members of group discussion come up with their own ideas and things become clearer to understand and learn.
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Read before going to bed
Place the material (the thing that you want to learn) on the side table next to your bed and make sure to go through it in bed before going to sleep in the evening. Do not take it into your nerves that you have to learn it in any case. Just read it 2 to 3 times and go then go to sleep without taking any kind of tension. Now, the material will revolve around you mind for the whole night and it will stick to your memory for long time.
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Learn through practical examples
Boring and dry reading material are always hard to digest. Therefore, you can come up with some practical examples to make the reading material interesting for you. It helps in learning things quickly.
