Learning how to Learn
By: Michael Palma
In life, there are things that a person must do in order to get by, but when a person is not able to do those things how are they supposed to move on with their life, how must they acquire the skills in order to forge ahead during difficult times; and that is where a person must learn how to overcome, learn how to be able to do certain things to gain a better life, a person must learn how to learn. When the action of learning is brought up one might begin to imagine a person going to school, reading, watching, and even asking others to teach them; and yes those all might be as correct as the last, but what one does not think about is that the person doing these things or asking these things might not know the first thing when it comes to learning. A person can go a lifetime without truly knowing how to learn something or know how they learn without seeing a problem. and that is where learning how to learn comes into play since there are those among the majority that would like to learn new ways to learn new things or would like to broaden their own understanding of how they learn new things.
The first strategy is nothing more than the changing of a person's environment. This is a method that many people have heard about, have tried to implement but for some reason, it may not work. Since the changing of a person's environment can be as simple as going outside, or as complex as fitting the whole room to a person's liking, but when broken down it's not as complex as you would think. Location, the location in which you are doing your learning has probably the biggest impact on your learning than anything else since this is where you will be going every time you are to study the new skill or continue learning a skill you have started already. The lighting, noise level, and even the color of the room can affect a person drastically and that is why picking the right location that fits your needs is crucial, whether you like a lot of lighting, lots of noise, or little noise whether you like warm colors or cool colors. I can go into greater detail, but that may take up the whole journal post. So I will say this, Picking the right location may seem in itself a very tedious thing to do, but in the long run, it will help you exponentially.
The second strategy when it comes to learning something new is something all have at some point tried to implement into their lives but for some reason, they just weren't able to keep it up, and that strategy is nothing more than Time management a concept that is so simple that all can understand but at the same time a strategy that is so hard to keep many just give up after a couple of days of trying. In this short paragraph, I’ll give some strategies within time management that can help you get started on your journey to learning how to learn. First, the simplest of all the strategies, find out what you will be doing and the times you will be doing those things for the week, and I say week because a week is easier to manage than a whole month but for those that plan for a whole month, these strategies are still relevant. Second, set each thing within a planner of your choice whichever it may be learn how others use it, and try to find a system that best suits you, for example, I use google calendar since I’m able to color-code each event that will be going on for that week and set reminders for when I need to sit down and start work or practicing of a new skill. Third, and one that if without this whole learning to learn structure will fall to nothing, and that is research, research is the most important thing within this whole system since that is where you will gain your knowledge into ways that you can take your learning to the next level.
If you are able to impediment these two simple things into your life, I can assure you that in the long run, your environment, time management, and research will get you to where you want to go. These are the most basic key components to success that without how would you even know how to perform at your very best every day when striving to achieve your life goals
