Ways to Improve Learning

Scott H Young has an interesting piece on how to improve learning. He suggests some ways to improve our learning capabilities:

• Use holistic learning - relate what you have learnt with the things you already know. This will enhance our neural network connections.
• Visualize - even if it is difficult to visualize, persist and visualize. Visualizing information, by far, is the most efficient form of storing information, knowledge and its connections.
• Mindmap - where you take a pen and a paper and visualize it more concretely.
• Metaphors - try to find analogies - not only will it create Aha! moments, but also allows us to apply all those that is applicable to analogy.
• Test it - this is religiously followed in almost all the educational institutes - exercises.
• Teach it - explain it to some virtual person or to some actual person who wants to listen. It will really make you rethink in your terms which is what one should actually be doing while learning.