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March
29, 2004:
How We Learn
Interview
with Marcia Conner, author of Learn
More Now
Mike
Carruthers:
Have you ever given any thought to how it is you learn, how you
take in information?
Marcia
Conner:
Like if you're a visual or auditory, or kinesthetic learner,
in other words if you learn best by seeing something, by hearing
something or touching and feeling it.
Marcia Conner,
author of the book Learn
More Now, says once you know how it is you learn best, you
can make changes to learn things better.
For example,
if someone is explaining something to you verbally, and it's
just not clicking, you're not being able to see it, for example.
It might be helpful to just ask the person delivering that information
to draw a simple picture for you.
When you
were in school you probably did most of your studying at night,
but ...
There
is some wonderful brain research that shows that the peak taking
in hours are in the morning for most everyone.
We also
learned in school that the best way to learn is to sit still
and pay attention.
But new
research is indicating that there are thinking cells throughout
our entire bodies, and if we don't move around we may not have
access to the full potential we have to learn. Think of riding
a bike, once you learn how to ride a bicycle you're able to
ride a bicycle for pretty much the rest of your life. In large
part that's because the way that you remember that is in your
muscles, and in the cells that exist in other parts of your
body, then just in your head. And we can apply that same rule
to most everything we are doing.
At somethingyoushouldknow.net,
I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.
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