Got Paralysis from Analysis?

Got Paralysis from Analysis?

Speed Reading rules.

How did you learn to use your computer?
How about typing or driving your car?nna) Listening to a lecturenb) Reading a book or articlenc) Observation – watching othersnd) Trial-and-Erro
e) All-of-the-abovenf) None of the above.

Did you have an instructor? He/she talked about the steps to give you
a logical understanding of the psychomotor skills. Secondly, the instructor may havendemonstrated the algorithm (steps) to the class.

Third, you depend on yourself by experimenting, and discarding what is not relevant.

The neuroscience answer is (c) Trial and error is the faster strategy to learn a
Psychomotor skill. Can you learn by being an apprentice and observing the correctnmethod until you get it? Sure, but it takes 2x longer. Reading takes 3x the learningntime

Principle: Learning is autodidactic (self-taught), and the more of the five senses you use to learn and remember; the quicker you create a neural network (circuit) for long term recall. The faster knowledge goes on autopilot, the easier to use the skill.

When you read you trigger two senses; vision and hearing – you see, and the words are repeated mentally.

Autodidact

Taking notes adds your Haptic (tactile, kinesthetic) sense of touch to seeing and hearing. That’s three active senses working to learn.

One reason to learn is to reduce the risk of Alzheimer up to 60%. Google: Columbia University College and Surgeons – Yaacov Stern, M.D.

A second reason is to extend your longevity through learning, up to ten years.
Use it or lose it applies to the neural circuitry of your brain. New York Timesnstatistics indicate the greater your education, the longer you live.

Last, having a competitive advantage in your career through lifelong learning produces a great number of promotions, and increased income.
Promotions and income are based on your value to your organization. New creative planning and strategies for success are based on continuing growth of personal knowledge. We go to past experience (knowledge) to compare new challenges withnlong term memory.

Conscious and Subconscious

The more you know, the greater your ability to solve future problems.

Watching television or playing video games are boring pastimes past age forty.
Autodidactic learning is a game, fun, and maintains you brain circuits to age 100.

Fact: we solve most problems through subconscious intuition, not logical analysis.
Emotional solutions come to mind first because they are hardwired as a subconscious neurocircuit. They require half the effort of cognition at your
Prefrontal Cortex.

Influence, Persuasion & Conviction

You and I can be conditioned and programmed to learn (yes, like Ivan Pavlov’s dog), through rewards (pleasure), or threats (pain). They cause us to consent to new learning. Can we conclude that all learning is autodidactic – we teach ourselves?

Your amygdala (limbic system) may be the exception by hijacking our thinkingnfor survival value. It takes too much time and conscious effort to decide if the nobject moving is a dangerous snake or a harmless stick.

Your amygdala decides in this kind of emergency threat to life. See: Sympathetic Nervous System: Fight-or-Flight.

Milton H. Erickson

Learning by experience is much more educational than learning consciously, say he.
He goes on to explain you cannot learn to swim by a book, watching Olympic prizenwinners, or consciously analyzing the process. Get into the pool and move it around.

Learning experientially is the most important thing. We have been taught in schoolnsince kindergarten that conscious thinking (left-brain) is the only way to learn.
Wrong: all learning and memory that sticks become subconscious, not conscious.

Fact: all skills and knowledge become embedded in our subconscious as habit. It starts as conscious learning and is converted to a neural network (habit).

I decided to learn the 44 Presidents in order for a gag. Using Peg and Link memory,nit took under ten minutes, and decades later is readily available for access.
So what? It is now a habit (autopilot) and located in my right-brain (hemisphere)nneurocircuit. Each time I do this trick, it fires the original synapses, and neurons that fire together – wire together – Donald Hebb.

We use conscious learning to create knowledge at a subconscious (automatic) level, by switching the information from our left hemisphere of analysis to pure non-thinking habit. A. Einstein said, Knowledge is experiencing; everything else isninformation. The secret is using multiple senses, particularly feeling (touch).

Insight

Isn’t insight (epiphany, revelation) the key to learning?

When we are learning the brain is totally involved in mastering the new skill orncore of knowledge. It inhibits all distractions from interfering with your primary goal. Principle: first the skill or knowledge, second is understand how and why.

In Speed Reading learning the new strategies causes a blockage of comprehensionnof language located in Wernicke’s Area (Temporal Cortex).

The brain will not separate itself into two parts during the learning process. First learn the new system, and after a new habit is formed, comprehension (Wernicke’s Area) is available to you again. It freaks students out because they are afraid they permanently lost their reading skills.

Speed Reading rules. Google: My Voice Will go With You – M.H. Erickson &
Sidney Rosen.

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Whether in school or career, would it be a major competitive advantage to read three times faster, and double your long-term memory? Ask us how. See ya.

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