How To Learn New Skills For Life

Can you remember when you first learned to ride a two-wheeler bike? Was it a 1-2-3-success story? Did you fallnoff the seat, bloody your knees, and scream for your
Momma? The most important question is – Did-you-quit?

I bet you stopped crying, put a Band-Aid on your knee, jumped on the bike and tried again and again until youngot the hang of gravity.

Why

You had a “burning desire” to be with your friends who hadnalready mastered riding a bike. Soon-or-later, you learned to shift your weight to balance yourself, and pedal so fast you stayed upright.

How

When we are motivated and pursue our “burning desire”, wenwill not quit until we win all the marbles of learning a nnew skill. The operative word to success is No-Quiting.

Two

First is curiosity, you want to know how it feels to learnnand experience using the new skill. Second is “tolerance-of-frustration”, you wont quit trying even though you fail again and again, until you finally learn the new skill.

Motivation

You brain is driven to success because you have a burning-ndesire to experience the new skill. You are willing to failnuntil you finally succeed.

Motivation is your reason for trying after you failed the first or tenth time. It’s your purpose-and-direction for your continuing to try, try again, until you master the new skill.

Learning

Humans learn through four major strategies:

1. Listening to parents, teachers, & professors.
2. Watching others (apprenticeship)
3. Trial-and-Error. Remembering what does not work innorder to avoid past mistakes, and placing into long-termnmemory the strategies that do work.

4. Using a combination of 1-4.

Sequence to Convince And Persuade

1. What is the deal you are offering?
2. How much is the package?
3. What’s In It for Me? (The Buyer)
4. Why should I believe a numbskull like you?

If you wait until the last step to offer your price, thenbuyer mentally deletes you. 1-4 is the optimal persuasionnstrategy, change it and you change the odds of success.

Mental-Movies

Our brain communicates with others by offering mental-imagery and metaphors. It is our right-hemisphere (cerebralncortex) that creates pictures that convince others.

Our left-hemisphere uses words and symbols (numbers etc) tonpersuade.

Association

Memory is created and accessed by the use of Pictures and
Associations. When you want to remember something NEW, younmust first associate (link) it with something you already
KNEW.

Remember, long-term memory encodes information semanticallynfor storage, and later retrieval.

A ridiculous image of what you want to recall, creates annassociation (link) for long-term memory. When you think ofnone side of the association, it retrieves the new idea withnthe old concept.

The three (3) types of association are:

1. Similarities (reminds you of). Mickey and Mouse.
2. Contiguity (neighboring, continuous or connected whole. Ex. Utah and Idaho are contiguous.

3. Contrast (comparision). Ex. up and down, North and South.

Endwords

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1. Speed Reading can help increase your longevity up to
6-11 years?

2. Speed Reading can help reduce the risk of Alzheimer’snup to 40%?

3. Speed Reading can help increase your personal-nproductivity (career) up to 39-41%?

4. Speed Reading can help triple (3x) your readingnspeed, and double (2x) you long-term memory?

5. Speed Reading can help exercise the 12 muscles innyour eyes and prevent Dry Eye?

6. Speed Reading can help turn illiterates into geniuses?

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See ya,nncopyright © 2008, H. Bernard Wechsle
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