100 Ways Sharpen Your Learning Skills and Abilities

In this article you will learn the following

-18 Ways We Learn and How Learning Takes Place

-100 Tips How to make your learning abilities your biggest strength and your strongest suite

-21 Simple memory tips, hacks and tricks [read next article -focused on making your memory very sharp]

How to sharpen your learning abilities

Learning abilities are the most profound skill that you need to master - If you want to be in control of your life and destiny and want to reach to the top of your world.

People who can learn [and also unlearn and relearn] - fast and effectively – have unimaginable and unparalleled levels of success and growth.

18 Ways We Learn and How Learning Takes Place

Almost all the one sentence tips given in this article [unless complete and self-e4xplanatory – have detailed do-it-yourself blog or answers among my 900+ articles in my two websites & in my Quora Page

• 1.By taking risk and failing
• 2.By making mistakes when we get into the realm of uncertain and unknown
• 3.By experimenting with newer ways
• 4.By trying ridiculous ideas
• 5.By exploring possibilities, options, risks, solutions WHICH are beyond obvious
• 6.By learning to look at same situation from different perspectives and angles
• 7.By trusting and sharpening our intuition
• 8.By developing faith in our abilities and forging ahead – when no one would
• 9.By taking actions in the areas – which scares and thrills us at the same time
• 10.By strengthening our 5 basic senses – of touch, smell, sound, visual and taste
• 11.By reading and being aware about what is happening in the world
• 12.By being in the company of people who – more intelligent, have gained exceptional wisdom, are established experts, have varied exposure and experience
• 13.By challenging and questioning – the norms, established assumptions and the experts
• 14.By breaking status-quo and changing routine
• 15.By facing the truth and facts
• 16.By not forming judgment – but – making decisions on evidence
• 17.By learning to accept who you are and accepting yourself
• 18.By not trying to fit-in – BUT – by creating new pathways

100 Tips How to make your learning abilities your biggest strength and your strongest suite

• 1.Any problem that you are seeking solutions for OR any solutions that you are not sure about - Sleep On It - Sleep Strengthens Memories and helps the relaxed brain find better solutions
• 2.Learn the fixed story visualization technique – to remember large chunks of information quickly - Competitive memorizers use this technique to substitute the variables while the story remains same.
• 3.Challenge your brain – by going into the realm of unknown and uncertain
• 4.Be very-very clear about – where you are now and where you want to go in future
• 5.Become aware about what are the things that you learn fast and enjoy doing
• 6.Become aware about your own strengths, weakness, negative habits, thought-patterns etc.
• 7.Know what habits, skills, knowledge and expertise you need to let go of AND what you need to acquire
• 8.Take actions in the area that you are scared
• 9.Take risk after weighing pros and cons
• 10.Stop multitasking – focus only on one activity
• 11.Focus on continuous improvement and creating excellence
• 12.Use the concept of 6-sigma and lean-manufacturing and total-preventative-maintenance and total-quality-management in your everyday life
• 13.Join various professional and social forums – participate actively by sharing what you know with the group
• 14.Keep most intelligent and brilliant and positive and successful people in your company
• 15.Avoid toxic and negative people who pull you down
• 16.Learn a new language all by yourself – using online resources
• 17.Connect with an interesting person abroad of different culture – learn about them
• 18.Create a meaningful debate group – where you have discussions on current issues
• 19.Create a problem-solving group – where you solve problems – that you are facing OR the world are facing
• 20.Learn to use creativity – as often as you can
• 21.Seek and adopt to changes that is happening in your life and the world
• 22.Read read and read
• 23.Cook and try out new recipes
• 24.Learn to play a musical instrument
• 25.Volunteer for social cause – Stand-up for underprivileged and weak
• 26.Take part in competitions – where you have to excel
• 27.Try stand-up comedy - Laugh at yourself -Share your embarrassing moments
• 28.Learn the art of making others laugh
• 29.Create tools that work for you to deal with your stress
• 30.Compete with yourself – try making your everyday better than the previous days
• 31.Don't compare yourself with others
• 32.Have realistic expectations from yourself
• 33.Reduce expectations from others
• 34.Stop taking things personally
• 35.Stop taking life seriously – have fun
• 36.Seek help for depression and Emotional difficulties
• 37.Pay attention – train yourself to be a great observer
• 38.Relate information to what you already know - For more complex material, focus on understanding basic ideas
• 39.Improve your Comprehension and analytical skills
• 40.Learn emerging skills to keep you competitive
• 41.Make it your habit of trying to solve problems you come across – even if they are not connected with you
• 42.Refine your Creative Problem-Solving Skills
• 43.Master the art of Asking thought-provoking and meaningful questions
• 44.Play memory and other games like - Sudoku -crossword puzzles –chess -jigsaw puzzles - word searches or scrambles -memory games
• 45.Observe people whom you admire on how they make decisions
• 46.Participate in meaningful debates and discussions
• 47.Avoid arguments
• 48.Develop your mathematical skills – do calculations [at least simple ones] in your brain only
• 49.Work on your analytical skills
• 50.Monitor and track your progress
• 51.Protect yourself from the damage of chronic inflammation
• 52.Improve Your Concentration and focus
• 53. Spend time in nature
• 54.Spend time with fun, playful people - Pay attention to children and emulate them - Surround yourself with reminders to lighten up
  
• 55.Create rigorous workout for your brain
• 56.Teach others – children and adult and other professionals
• 57.Go for various types of exercises like Aerobic exercise
• 58.Play team games and games like soccer
• 59.Go for Physical activities that require hand-eye coordination or complex motor skills
• 60.Get plenty of sleep and relaxation'
• 61.Be social Make time for friends
• 62.Work on your all-important relationships to create close and Healthy relationships
• 63.Go for MOOC courses and CERTIFICATEs
• 64.Mix and vary your learning methods and materials
  Challenge and overcome your biases
• 65.Learn from the best - Work with experts
• 66.Learn the habit being a skeptic - Don't trust any new information, as it comes. Analyze it carefully before accepting. Have a healthy level of Skepticism
• 67.Set Clear Goals – ask for Feedback
• 68.Learn From Others -Attend Workshops and Training Seminars -Collaborate and Network With Others
• 69.Learn to resolve conflicts
• 70.Step Outside Your Comfort Zone
• 71.Take on a Leadership Role
• 72.Stay current-Upgrade your technical skills -Broaden your horizons-Boost your productivity
• 73.Go for knowledge and Skill sharing
• 74.Be curious -Be a self-starter - Seek opportunities – don't wait for them to come to you
• 75.Get A Mentor and coach
• 76.Apply all your learning – learn only what you need and can apply
• 77.Learn the medication which works for you
• 78.Eat brain-boosting diet
• 79.Limit calories and saturated fat -Eat more fruit and vegetables -Drink green tea
• 80.Identify and treat your health problems
• 81.Understand the impact of Medications – and with help of your doctor manage the side-effects – as many of the cold and allergy medications, sleep aids, and antidepressants – impact memory and clear thinking
• 82. Listen to Soft Music
• 83.Be open to new ideas -Be aware of your strengths and weaknesses
  
• 84.Stay up-to-date on current trends and technologies
• 85.Sharpen Your Study Skills - Visual Auditory Kinesthetic
• 86.Identify when you are going through a Lack of motivation phase – find ways to address the basic issues
• 87.Sharpen yours 42 types of intelligence and soft skills
• 88.Become active listening
• 89.Learn the art of storytelling
• 90.Identify opportunities to help others
• 91.Attend industry and professional events
• 92.Help your team to become the best that they can
• 93.Reflect on and learn from your bad decisions and mistakes
• 94.For all important events practice prepare and practice
• 95.Volunteer With Nonprofit
• 96.Write And share Your Personal Stories of mistakes, failures and success
• 97.Follow Thought Leaders
• 98.Practice Reverse Mentoring
• 99.21 Simple memory tips, hacks and tricks - Sharpen your memory – in this world you have to memorize vast and diverse data and information to get many of the degrees and qualifications
• I.Increase your comprehension abilities - understand the information, the situation, the data and the case – first by going through fast and then by going in-depth
• II.Master the basic concepts which are fundamental everyday life
• III.Learn to Organize the information in sequence
• IV.Divide the information in small-small elements
• V.Master the art of reading FAST [not by skipping but by focusing on the gist]
• VI.If you can [initially it will be hard] – LINK and connect the dots – see the relationship between various information-pieces and how they relate with each-other – check if you can related unrelated info into a meaningful sense
• VII.Actively recall the information you are trying to memorize - force yourself to remember it without looking at the
• VIII.Identify areas that you are struggling to remember – use repetition technique - ONLY after you have understood it fully – space out your repetition
• IX.Sometimes writing what you have memorized can help you remember it longer
• X.Writing also creates connection between our hand and our brain – and while you are writing say it loud along with
• XI.Create abbreviation if it works for you – for a project where large number of steps are there
• XII.If you can create a pictorial link between what you want to remember and something funny or memorable – nothing like it
• XIII.Make it memorable by using a simple trick of remembering - the order of operations in math by using the sentence Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally (parentheses, exponents, multiply, divide, add, subtract)
• XIV.Have an internal conversation with yourself - on the material you are trying to memorize
• XV.Exercise! Seriously - exercise can improve your memory and learning capabilities because it helps create neurons in areas that relate to memory
• XVI.Go for Cardio and resistance training (weights) both have powerful effects, so do- do what works best for you
• XVII.Mix your day between studying, reading, doing
• XVIII.Do vastly different activities – to keep the interest and curiosity
• XIX.Find ways you can involve your five senses – to memorize – specially the visual, auditory and the kinesthetic ones
• XX.Create rhyming Songs and jingles
• XXI.Create interesting metaphors and analogies