Do This And You’ll Learn Much Faster

Dear Lovely Readers:

I'm going to share with you one of the best ways to learn information and absorb knowledge. Let's start with an illustration, and then I'll give you the general principle.

I want you to try a little experiment. Here are 13 letters from the alphabet:

"Y T R H A U S P D P A Y H"

Look at them quickly, and then look away and try to say the letters out loud in the same order you read them.

How did you do? Probably not very well.

Now do it again. Here are the 13 letters: "H A P P Y TH U R S D A Y"- How did you do this time? Of course, this time you got them all right. And yet, they're the same 13 letters as before (you can go ahead and verify that, if you'd like).

So, why were the letters so difficult to remember the first time, and yet so easy to remember the second time? Because the first time I gave you the 13 letters they were arranged in a way that had absolutely no meaning for you. The second time the letters were arranged in a way that was meaningful. And there lies the difference.

The General Principle

To learn much faster, find a way to make the information that you're learning meaningful. There are many ways to do this, but one of the best ways is to find a way to connect the information to your own life. You can do this by asking yourself the following questions:

• How is this relevant to me?
• How can I apply this information to solve a problem that I'm currently having?
• How can I use this information to improve my life in some way?

One of the complaints that students have about school is that they're forced to learn a lot of things that are not relevant to them in any way. That is, they can't see why what they're learning is meaningful. Therefore, to them, it's as if they were being forced to memorize the 13 letters in the order that I gave them to you the first time. It's a bunch of meaningless mumbo jumbo.

Learning as an adult has many benefits. One of the most important of these is that you get to choose what you want to learn. And since you choose what to learn, you'll choose skills that are relevant to you. This means that when you're learning the skill, you'll have an easy time making the information or knowledge that you acquire meaningful.

As an illustration, learning to code when it's simply a school subject is tedious. But if you're learning to code so that you can start automating some of the boring stuff that you have to do over and over again, you'll quickly start looking for ways to connect what you're learning about coding to the problems that you want to solve by learning to code. This means that coding will be meaningful for you, and you'll have a much easier time learning it.

A Second Example: Chess

There was a study conducted in 1973 in which amateur and expert chess players were shown a chessboard arrangement from a game in progress. They were asked to recall the position of the pieces. Here's what happened:

• The amateur players could barely recall any of the positions.
• The expert players, on the other hand, were able to recall most of them.

Why were the expert players so much better at recalling the information? Because they could see the strategy, or the meaning, behind the positions that the pieces were in.

There was a second part of the experiment in which experts and amateurs were shown a chessboard with the pieces arranged randomly. This time, when both groups were asked to recall where the pieces were on the board, they performed equally. Both groups had difficulty remembering where the pieces were. This time, the experts couldn't find any meaning in the arrangement, so they couldn't remember the position of the pieces.

This is just one of the many strategies that you'll discover in my course, "Learn Any Skill Faster and Better: How to Learn to Code, Play the Piano, Lift Weights, Speak French, Draw, Or Anything Else". In addition, I've just created a Private Facebook Group so that we can create a learning community for those who enroll in the course. The group is brand new, but I'll be there (and I'm a lot of fun 😊 ) so you can be sure your questions will be answered.

Here's the link to enroll in the course: ENROLL IN THE COURSE.

Sincerely,

Marelisa

P.S. If you have any questions about the course that I haven't answered, send me an email and I'll get back to you: marelisafabrega@daringtolivefully.com.

P.S.S. Remember: enrollment closes on Tuesday, February 4^th, at 8:00 p.m. ET.

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