What are your best technique(s) at learning something new?
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My best technique at learning something new is "M.U.R.D.E.R."\n\n*  Mood:\n      Set a positive mood for yourself to study in.\n      Select the appropriate time, environment, and attitude\n* Understand:\n      Mark any information you don't understand in a particular unit;\n      Keep a focus on one unit or a manageable group of exercises\n* Recall:\n      After studying the unit,\n      stop and put what you have learned into your own words\n* Digest:\n      Go back to what you did not understand and reconsider the information;\n      Contact external expert sources (e.g., other books or an instructor) if you still cannot understand it\n* Expand:\n      In this step, ask three kinds of questions concerning the studied material:\n          o If I could speak to the author, what questions would I ask or what criticism would I offer?\n          o How could I apply this material to what I am interested in?\n          o How could I make this information interesting and understandable to other students?\n* Review:\n      Go over the material you've covered,\n      Review what strategies helped you understand and/or retain information in the past and apply these to your current studies
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Repetition, recitation and write waht you think is important. Most importantly though is to take a ten minute break every thirty minutes. (your brain can only absorb so much new information in a given amount of time) Don't do anything just sit there. What you want is for what you are studying to take hold in your long term memory. If you watch TV or talk to someone the new stimuli will push out the old stimuli (what you've been studying), and come tommorrow you will remember more of what you watched on TV and talked about.
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What works best for me (short of dissection which is the best way to never forget) is charts and drawings with lots of colors. And not just once: use different textbooks and sources, see photographs, so that you have the same facts hammered into your head from different perspectives. At least for me, repetition of a single text is boring and I end up in "not recording" mode. \nI don't know if you are studying human anatomy only or general vertebrate anatomy; for the latter, the best way is to study the evolution and derivations of each muscles, because the basics are the same in all the groups. \nThe names usually refer to their action in humans, so try to individualize those muscles in your own body. See what they do when you contract them.\nGood luck!
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Different people have different ways of memorizing best.  Some people learn best from listening and speaking.  Some people learn best from reading or looking.  Some people learn best from moving, and so on.  Here are some ideas:\nWrite out all the words and their definitions in sentences.\nMake up a dance or a song for each word.\nDraw a colorful chart.\nUse flashcards.\nRecord a tape of yourself saying the words and then listen to the tape repeatedly.
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It may seem to go in one ear and fly out the other, but observe how you learn a little closer. You will find that you learn very slowly, perhaps, but once you "get" something, it's in there forever. So the way you are actually learning new skills and techniques is very important, and you are already on the right track. Do not rush. Because you learn very slowly and meticulously, take your time and get all the details and spend a lot of time with those details until you master them. There is absolutely no need to rush. When you rush, you gloss over the important stuff, (like the centering presence of gravity) and it simply does not sink in. When you get involved and go slower, the material you wish to master will go much deeper into your consciousness until it all becomes part of your instincts, and from your instincts you will manifest a knowledge which will surpass book or surface knowledge, and it will even surpass the instruction of your teacher, because you are you and not him. Let your mind become very quiet inside and you yourself become very deliberate when someone is showing you something new. Do not be concerned at all whether the learning is happening or not, just give the new lessons your absolute and undivided attention. Concentrate on active listening, and just do your best to stay focused on what is being shown to you. Stay very alert. Very soon you will look back and begin to notice you have absorbed far more than you thought you did. When I was studying how to drive a car I felt I was hopeless, and then I later found myself quoting the instruction manual almost verbatim. I was noticing things like proper lane usage, distances to follow based upon the speed traveled, and a million other little things I never thought I had learned. The bottom line is to get focused on being quiet inside when something new is being shown to you and do not create an attitude about your learning processes which will only slow down the whole thing even further. Become ALL EARS AND EYES and you will become like a sponge and begin to absorb everything you are shown. You will also begin to get a little bolder and start to demand of your teacher to reinforce the parts you do not understand. If he is any good at all you will find he has infinite patience to stop the world and show you even how to balance on the front of one foot for ten minutes. Feel the strength in your legs. Walk in the woods often to strength ALL the muscles in your legs for keener balance. Close your eyes and stand on one foot and do not hold your breath. Now, do you see how quickly you are learning? Well, it is because of how quiet you have become with me while we were chatting... sent to you with good energies from Chris in South Portland, Maine, U.S.A.  (I am 63 years old and when I studied classical ballet, my teacher was 81 years old. She was still doing triple beats in the air with perfect balance and strength and she easily tired me to the point of almost giving up. I will never forget the value she had to me. She is now in Spirit. She is no longer with me in this world. But she taught me one thing: you can sneak up on the greatest knowledge a little bit at a time until it opens its arms and embraces you. I wish you total success in everything you undertake and direct your attention upon, and do not be concerned about mastering your art. You will. It is not a question of if. It is a question of when.   - C.
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While there are tests that you can take to find out how you best learn, you can also notice how you like to learn and figure it out for yourself. When you put your computer together, did you read the directions or look at the pictures, did you ask a friend, or did you just mess around with cords and keystrokes until you got it right? Did you need to read it, talk about it, or touch it. Same with putting the music system together, same with a recipe. Do you look in a cookbook, ask a friend how he or she makes it, or do you just mix things together until you get it right. If you were studying for a test, would you rather read the book, talk with other students, or draw charts and concept maps? Here's some ideas, just look at how you like to experience new things, you'll figure it out.
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brain storm subjects that u know nothing about at all, and then log on the internet and re-search them..read about them..\n\nu will kill the time, read something u r interested in, and learn something new and u will widen ur general knowledge..\n\n:D simple i do that. for example a country u know nothing about, a science, a famous experiment, a famous story/novel, personality...etc the list goes on and on
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By reading books, magazines, listening to radio and other sources where other people use words you don't know or willing to know. \n\nWhen reading a book, take out the unknown words with the whole sentence. Understand its meaning and try to remember the context of the sentence.\n\nAnd next time when you talk to your buddies, try to use the word you just learned. Humans are fast learners. Give it a try.
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There are very good study tips already listed here. There are methods for different subjects and styles of learning. But one thing you might want to consider is how you learn. Are you a visual, auditory, kinetic, or mixed learner. If you are a visual learner here are some tips:\n- use graphic organizers (charts, maps, diagrams, etc.) to organize the information.\n- use pictures either in your head or drawn out. For example, If my students were studying culture, they might draw a bedroom with a poster of an artist on the wall, a shelf with books by famous authors, a cd player with cds of various musicians, etc. \n- use color. Perhaps you could put the major battles of one war in one color and another war in a different color. In foreign languages, try irregular verbs in red, regular verbs in green; Masculine objects in blue, feminine in pink, etc. \n\nIf you are an auditory learner try these tips:\n- have some one read it to you or read aloud and record it for play back at any time.\n- put it to music \n- say the important information aloud\n- put the information in story form (have fun with this: add voices, sound effects, accents, etc.) and tell someone \n\nIf you are a kinetic learner try this:\n- make up actions for important terms\n- act out or role play scenes and events\n- some of my students have made up cheers\n- just move around and find natural actions to match the concepts.\n\nMix and match - \nmake up songs with actions and picture the scenes in your head while you sing.\n\nMake it fun for yourself. I get bored easily. When I study I have to be creative and put it all in simplest form. Some of these things take time to do put you are learning and thinking the whole time. try the links below for more help.
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Take a learning style inventory to see how you learn best.  You can search for one on any search engine.  Then choose study strategies that fit your particular learning style.\n\nFor example, I am a very visual learner so taking notes works well for me.  Rewriting those notes later as a review or making flashcards also helps me.\n\nGood luck!
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first, if you don't know all the fundamentals, learn them, the practice, a lot.  that is how you improve your skills
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increase your knowledge, search for new topics related to your field, read success stories, motivation thoughts. \n\nJust gain something which you don;t aware / known of.\nInternet is the best resource of knowledge, Utilize this best resourse.
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Only way to learn fast is to be cool and composite, plan in well advance, try to discuss with friends and try to create a photographic memory because that lasts longer.  Get some time to relax and take some time off from daily activities.  When you learn try to create some links with that what you want to remember.  Get a sound sleep, worrying about anything makes you more vulnerable of forgetting.
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Writing your work out over and over, and reading it out loud are the best ways to learn. If you can shout it then even better!!  Apparently, when learning a new language, you need to repeat the word or phrase up 60 times in order to remember it properly.  When you go to higher education you will have to take your own notes and be able to understand them, so if you can get in the habit now then good for you.  Keep going, it will pay off for you in the end.  And don't say "I'm only doing..." be postitive!!  The walk of a thousand miles begins with a single step, and so many fall by the wayside and give up.  Don't be like that!  Keep up the good work, learn to listen, then read it, write it, learn it, and above all, enjoy it!!\nGood luck!!
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You're never too old to learn something new.  Go for it
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i believe the best way to get better at something is to try.if you enjoy what your learning it makes it a lot easier to get as goood as you can.but the key is to believe in yourself and what your doing.
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the best is learning from the internet. and the more u practise the more u learn,