Wednesday 26 August 2015
Thursday 6 August 2015
How to learn the basics of a new skill in 20 hrs
Learning something new is always daunting as well as exciting.
Follow the 4 steps and practice for 20 hrs and you will have learned the basics
Let me know what new skills you have learned and how it went.
How Humans Learn And How It Affects You
Learning is a human talent and there are no boundaries to the
quantity or quality of skills that we can learn. Discover the
incredible nature of how your brain learns new skills and improve
memory.
One day my son ask me when can he take off the training wheels from his bicycle. I replied, “When I was your age, my father pushed me. I fell and bruised my knee. But I wanted to ride my bicycle so badly that I always got up and tried again”. My son frown at the prospect of constant falls and said, “Did you always fall every time you got up on your bicycle?” “No”, I replied, “If you practice you will learn, and it will work out fine, soon you’ll be an expert.” My son grinned and he got on his bicycle and tried again. Sure enough, he was soon paddling his merry way in a couple of days.
Whether you are learning how to ride a bicycle for the first time or learning to play the piano, most of us need time to master any new skills we desire to learn.
It may take some time and effort in the beginning but it’s all worth it, considering we retain the ability to learn right into old age.
If you want to learn a complicated skill, you need time and patience.
And as soon as the right sequence of movements has been learned, you can no longer imagine how difficult to take those first steps.
The human mind and body has an innate ability to learn almost anything imaginable.
From learning to play the guitar to juggling balls. In any circus or carnival, mind-boggling array of skills and stunts are demonstrated.
For example, performing somersaults in the air, juggling knives, balancing spinning plates on sticks.
If you hold a baby upright with their feet touching the floor, they will instinctively start making walking movements with their feet. Almost a year will pass before they have found the muscle control to be able to put one foot in front of the other all by their self.
In this time, the baby gradually learns to control their movements, first learning to creep, then to crawl and finally to stand upright without holding onto someone or something.
It is during this process that they progressively establishes the necessary nerve links between the brain and the muscles.
Just like learning to walk upright is a skill that almost everyone can master, we too have the mental skills to train our memory to perform astonishing feats of memory and improve memory.
Memory trainers use an array of clever techniques like mental association. Such techniques have been used for centuries by the Greeks and ancient cultures to amass large amounts of information long before printing was the common enough to hold the massive information required to be pass from generations to generations.
An example of association is to use a technique known as pegging as an anchor or source to hold a piece of information.
The body can be used as a reference for pegging. For example, the toes, the knee, muscle, shoulder, collar to the face. Extremely easy to use, it can be the basis of more advance methods of association. Soon, just like learning to ride a bicycle, anyone can use such techniques to master long chains of numbers, lists or mathematical formulas. There are of course many other methods that anyone can use to boost his memory. Dominic O’Brien for example, likes to use the loci method as pegs for his memory feats. Dominic is of course, the world memory Olympiad champion and uses his jogging route to help him remember long strands of numbers or long list of items in the hundreds.
There is much to be gained from a trained memory. Besides making tests and exams a walk in the park, learning a foreign language or “cheating” in a card game
,
a trained memory has been known to delay the onset of Alzheimer’s
disease or other age related memory problems. You might want to explore
the different ways you brain can be trained today both to improve
memory and for a healthier mental health.
One day my son ask me when can he take off the training wheels from his bicycle. I replied, “When I was your age, my father pushed me. I fell and bruised my knee. But I wanted to ride my bicycle so badly that I always got up and tried again”. My son frown at the prospect of constant falls and said, “Did you always fall every time you got up on your bicycle?” “No”, I replied, “If you practice you will learn, and it will work out fine, soon you’ll be an expert.” My son grinned and he got on his bicycle and tried again. Sure enough, he was soon paddling his merry way in a couple of days.
Whether you are learning how to ride a bicycle for the first time or learning to play the piano, most of us need time to master any new skills we desire to learn.
It may take some time and effort in the beginning but it’s all worth it, considering we retain the ability to learn right into old age.
If you want to learn a complicated skill, you need time and patience.
And as soon as the right sequence of movements has been learned, you can no longer imagine how difficult to take those first steps.
The human mind and body has an innate ability to learn almost anything imaginable.
From learning to play the guitar to juggling balls. In any circus or carnival, mind-boggling array of skills and stunts are demonstrated.
For example, performing somersaults in the air, juggling knives, balancing spinning plates on sticks.
If you hold a baby upright with their feet touching the floor, they will instinctively start making walking movements with their feet. Almost a year will pass before they have found the muscle control to be able to put one foot in front of the other all by their self.
In this time, the baby gradually learns to control their movements, first learning to creep, then to crawl and finally to stand upright without holding onto someone or something.
It is during this process that they progressively establishes the necessary nerve links between the brain and the muscles.
Just like learning to walk upright is a skill that almost everyone can master, we too have the mental skills to train our memory to perform astonishing feats of memory and improve memory.
Memory trainers use an array of clever techniques like mental association. Such techniques have been used for centuries by the Greeks and ancient cultures to amass large amounts of information long before printing was the common enough to hold the massive information required to be pass from generations to generations.
An example of association is to use a technique known as pegging as an anchor or source to hold a piece of information.
The body can be used as a reference for pegging. For example, the toes, the knee, muscle, shoulder, collar to the face. Extremely easy to use, it can be the basis of more advance methods of association. Soon, just like learning to ride a bicycle, anyone can use such techniques to master long chains of numbers, lists or mathematical formulas. There are of course many other methods that anyone can use to boost his memory. Dominic O’Brien for example, likes to use the loci method as pegs for his memory feats. Dominic is of course, the world memory Olympiad champion and uses his jogging route to help him remember long strands of numbers or long list of items in the hundreds.
There is much to be gained from a trained memory. Besides making tests and exams a walk in the park, learning a foreign language or “cheating” in a card game
,
a trained memory has been known to delay the onset of Alzheimer’s
disease or other age related memory problems. You might want to explore
the different ways you brain can be trained today both to improve
memory and for a healthier mental health.
Wednesday 5 August 2015
COUNT DOWN OF 50 OF THE BEST LIFE HACKS/MARGINAL GAINS FOR A BETTER FUTURE SELF #1
#1. Treat Work as Your Ultimate Form of Self-Expression
Work is a great place to show up how you want to be.
It’s your chance to make your soul sing.
It can be your ultimate dojo for personal development and your arena for your best results.
If you want to be an artist, do more art on the job.
You’re an individual with a unique set of strengths, weaknesses, and experiences.
Maybe only your closest friends know your true strengths.
Maybe you don’t show your strengths at work.
Why not? No matter what the task is, you can leave your mark.
When you live your values on the job and you give your best where you have your best to give, you are operating at a higher level.
Well, that’s my roundup of 50 of my best life hacks.
I hope they serve you well.
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Tuesday 4 August 2015
COUNT DOWN OF 50 OF THE BEST LIFE HACKS/MARGINAL GAINS FOR A BETTER FUTURE SELF #2
#2. Be Your Own CEO
Apply business skills to life.
Business can teach us a lot.
The most important thing they can teach us is how to be sustainable.
You can use the same tools that create a strong, sustainable business, to create a strong, sustainable life.
If you know your vision, mission, and values, you have a strong foundation.
Strategy skills teach us how to make the most of what we’ve got in terms of time and resources.
We can innovate in our lives to do things better, faster, cheaper, much the same way we innovate in business.
We can also reflect on and improve our performance in more objective ways, much the way a business does.
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Monday 3 August 2015
COUNT DOWN OF 50 OF THE BEST LIFE HACKS/MARGINAL GAINS FOR A BETTER FUTURE SELF #3
#3. Take the High Road
Don’t get sucked into other people’s drama.
Don’t get sucked into your own drama.
Don’t spiral down into name calling, and blaming.
Step away from it.
Seek higher ground.
Don’t get pulled down, or stoop to their level.
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Sunday 2 August 2015
COUNT DOWN OF 50 OF THE BEST LIFE HACKS/MARGINAL GAINS FOR A BETTER FUTURE SELF #4
#4. Live Without Regrets
Go for it.
“It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed. It is the things we do not. Find your passion and follow it.” — Randy Pausch
“Did I live, did I love, did I matter?” – Brendan Burchard
“Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
“You get this one moment to regret all the things you said you’d do but never did, and then it’s over.
You die or you live.
If you live, the look in your eyes is never the same.” — Gabrielle Bouliane
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Saturday 1 August 2015
COUNT DOWN OF 50 OF THE BEST LIFE HACKS/MARGINAL GAINS FOR A BETTER FUTURE SELF #5
#5. Root Yourself in Your Mission, Not Your Position
Missions are durable.
If you lose your job, you can find other ways to live your mission.
For example, if my mission was to help people live healthier lives, but if, for whatever reason, I couldn’t be a doctor, I would find other ways.
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