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Does Use It Or Lose It Apply to Body And Mine?
Does Use It Or Lose It – Apply To Brain As Well As Body?
“If I asked my customers what they wanted, they would have
told me – a faster-horse.” Help me out, who said that?
Use your Mental Imagery to create a picture or produce a 60 second
Google Video to predict and ID the author of the above question.
Why? Every time you analyze and search for answers, your brain
fires synapses and your thinking becomes faster and deeply embedded.
True or false. “Virtually all human behavior is influenced by our Genes.
But no behavior is determined by our genes.” Google it and you create
Cognitive Reserve in your brain to help avoid Alz up to 60%.
Imagination
Did you know that your imagination learns new information and skills on a par with doing (physical practice) and live experiences?
Me neither. Google: Current Biology 12.04.09 Swiss professor Elise Tartagalia.
Get this: thinking about new information and testing your recall because you
want to, not have to, is about equal to boring repetition as a learning strategy.
Tiger (you know who) in golf, and both Nadal and Roger Federer in tennis,
and a list as long as your arm of football players sit before they play and
mentally visualize the scenario they want and expect. Are they plain stupid?
Imagery training creates perceptual (repeated exposure by repetition) learning.
What you see in your Mind’s eye registers no differently for learning and memory than seeing (reading), hearing, and kinesthetic (tactile, touch) senses.
So What
Nobody (the rest of us) uses the power of mental imagery to improve the odds to
imprint new skills and knowledge on their brains. Our personal experience is with Procedural Memory – (learning to use new skills like typing, driving, and surfing the Internet) for learning and long-term recall.
We tell executives at Fortune 500 companies who want promotions to master their
imagination verses rote (drill and kill) learning. They are asked to see in their mind’s eye – reading using their Peripheral Vision, not the standard Central focus.
Those who use mental imagery in addition to the physical strategies of underlining
using a Pacer, 3x their reading speed and 2x their long-term memory within 21 days
instead of two-months. Faster sure, and it improves their self-confidence in all areas
of their lives.
Who Cares
You might consider it. “Our work shows that not only are normal vision and imagery related, but mental imagery influences what we see.” We learn faster and remember longer.
Proof? fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imagery). Google: Dr. Joel Pearson, Vanderbilt University.
“You might think you need to imagine something ten-times or 100-times before it has an impact. Our results show that even a Single instance of imagery can tilt how
you see the world one way or another, dramatically, if the conditions are right.”
Visual perception is strongly influenced by our Expectations. When you see a positive result in your own mind, are you going to deny its reality? It becomes
a moving force in your learning and long-term memory.
Errorless Learning
We teach kids that the right answer is everything. We learn to suspend analyzing whether the answer has logic and reasoning behind it. Is being wrong a bullet in the heart to our self-confidence?
Trial-and-Error is a better way to train our brain for a successful career.
We learn by Observation, by Listening (lectures), Doing (drill and kill) and
trial and error. The neurological research indicates trying and failing is the
best learning strategy.
Three Cheers for Nate
Nate Kornell , professor at Williams College is the leading authority on the benefits
of trial and error learning. His research stands for learning becomes better if conditions are rearranged so that students make ERRORS.
Failing has positive affects on retention (memory) and association with prior knowledge. Our brain thinks in pictures, and remembers through association
with ideas already in long-term memory.
Failing carries emotional baggage that makes it harder to forget the right answer the next time you think about it. Failure carries the right answer forward as almost
hardwired.
See: Scientific American 10.20.09. “Getting It Wrong…” cites Professor Kornell
and his seminal research. What is the point? Errorless learning is disguised
as reading and study to get someone else’s right answers. It is another form of Drill And Kill. Let us cut out the middleman and be our own director. How?
When you summarize in your own words, analyze with your own brain, and
synthesize (combine ideas), you learn 10% better and retain the knowledge
almost permanently. Self-testing is more effective for learning than the exams of others.
Auto-Didactic
We use a diagram called the Tree of Knowledge for note taking. It makes you
auto-didactic (self-taught) for both knowledge and skills. Dependency on teachers
and authors is part of the conspiracy of Errorless Learning.
Use your three-pound coconut; errors don’t kill you, they make you stronger.
Optimized Learning includes spacing your study sessions and attention span with timeouts, sleep for consolidation, and trial and error for feedback.
Oh yeah, Henry Ford, the guy named after the car said, “If I asked my customers
what they wanted, they would have told me, a faster-horse.” Guess he did not believe in Focus Groups for ideas. He made a decent living with his own brain.
Endwords
Would you have a powerful advantage over your peers for personal growth
and promotions, if you could read text material three-times faster, and
have a long-term memory twice as deep?
You may want our free research report on speed reading and memory.
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See ya,
copyright © 2009 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org
hbw@ speedlearning.org
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About the Author
Author of Speed Reading For Professionals, published by
Barron’s. Business partner of Evelyn Wood, creator of
speed reading, graduating 2 million, including the
White House staffs of four U.S. Presidents: Kennedy-Johnson-
Nixon-Carter.
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