How to apply accelerated learning in your own life
What are the beginning steps to prepare for accelerated learning techniques for adults?
It is extremely important that you have the proper frame of mind before you begin learning. You have to achieve the odd combination of physical relaxation and mental alertness- something that often defies our traditional concepts of what it means to learn. However, it is commonly held that the state of physical relaxation but mental alertness – often associated with daydreaming – is the one in which people produce their most creative and innovative thoughts, and the one at which they best absorb new knowledge. Many psychologists hold that the majority of learning takes place at a deeper subconscious level, and it is in this relaxed state that the subconscious can be most receptive to new knowledge.
How does the adult accelerated learned enter this relaxed state of mind and body?
Although breathing exercises and a degree of simple meditation are effective ways to achieve this state of relaxed alertness, one of the easiest and most straightforward methods is simply to play some music. The brain actually synthesizes itself to the music; most recommended are Baroque styles of music such as those by Bach, Handel, or Vivaldi. If you have a particular aversion to outright classical music, try something with the same degree of quiet complexity in order to achieve a similar result. It is also very important to the learning process that the adult learner accepts that he or she is going to learn easily, effectively and enjoyably. This belief can be chiefly brought about by ensuring that the environment is physically comfortable, at an agreeable temperature, and has comfortable levels of light as according to personal preference.
How does the adult learner best take in information?
Every learner has a natural preference when it comes to methods of ingesting new information. Typically this variety of methods involves a combination of visual, auditory and kinesthetic/tactile methods. Occasionally some people express preferences for learning in an olfactory (smelling) or gustatory (tasting) method, although these are much rarer than the previously mentioned learning styles. All of these learning styles, however, are extremely important when it comes to learning new information, since once the learner knows his or her preferred learning style it can be then applied in order to enable him or her to take in new concepts more readily. It is also possible for the adult learner to stretch him or herself a bit in one area or another in order to improve on weaker areas of learning.
These different methods of learning are categorized in the following ways:
1. Bodily physical. This term refers to a person’s ability to move with athletic skill and often to manipulate objects (such as sports equipment, tools) with dexterity.
2. Inter-personal. This term refers to the ability to work well with others, and also to empathize and relate well to people.
3. Intra-personal. This term refers to the ability to be introspective, to contemplate, and to know oneself very well.
4. Linguistic. This term refers to a high ability to work with words, as well as writing and reading. One of the two skills most relied on by the traditional school system.
5. Logical-mathematical. This term refers to a person’s ability to reason, calculate and work out a problem. The other of the two skills most relied on by the traditional school system
6. Musical. This term refers to a person’s preference for and high appreciation of music.
7. Naturalist. This term refers to one’s ability to group and classify objects to see patterns as they are presented in a variety of ordinary situations.
8. Visual-spatial. This term refers to the ability to visualize objects in space and represent them, either by articulation or by recreation in drawing or models.
By determining which of these methods the adult learner’s greatest strength is, he or she can accelerate his or her rate of learning by discerning a means of incorporating these in the learning process.
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