Learning How to Learn: Improving the Performance of Learning

About this book

Learning is a skill and it can be improved. Everyone has the opportunity to develop their memory andlearning ability. Identifying your own learning style and the methods that work for you is key. The moreyou use your brain the better it will work.Learning something new always takes commitment and self discipline as well as conscious practice. Yourconception of what learning is and your motivation to study will determine your success. You have to want to solve a problem even if it is demanding. No learning methods or techniques will help if the motivation to study is missing. Obstacles to learning usually have to do with one's attitudes and con-ception of oneself as a learner and one's conception of learning, all of which have themselves beenlearnt.You have to clarify for yourself why studying is worthwhile and what are you aiming for in yourstudies. Learning only happens as a direct result of your own efforts.