Have this ever happen to you?

Have this ever scenarios ever happened to you?

Reference Jean Marie Stine

1. Your boss calls you in and hands you a complex manual of new protocols you are going to have to learn now that the entire company is using a new system software system.
2. Due to a delivery snafu, 200+ pages of crucial specs hit you4r desk at 4:30 p.m  , and you will be expected to discuss even the smallest details knowledgeably in a translate phone conference the next morning.
3. You marry into a family with a different traditions and want to learn them and “fit” in” as quickly as possible because you love you spouse.
4. You come home from your first evening in a real estate course with intimidating, inches thick textbooks and realize you are expected to absorb in it in six weeks.
5. A change in your life situation suddenly forces you to learn to drive a completely new vehicle.
6. To get a promotion, you attend a lecture on a subject you must master and find yourself faced with the most boring speaker in the world.

Most people have found them selves in situations  such as these .and their reactions were pretty much the same .they  felt intimidated, questioned their own adequacy , and doubted their ability to success fully learn it all.

The odds are you have a similar negative response to the thought of having to learn something new. To most of us, the idea of learning conjures up the image of a difficult, laborious, tiring task, one we are not very good at.

All humans are natural learners; it is the part of our heritage. But most of us do not realize this for two reasons:

Negative learning experiences in (and out side) the educational system.

Lack of any training in how to apply often unsuspected natural talents to learning.

Have trouble believing you are such a great leaner? Convince you are a poor learner-one of who absorbs new things slowly and only with great difficulty?

That’s because, if you’re like most people, you tend to focus on the time you’ve had trouble learning (through the archaic, ineffective learning techniques you’re about to replace with effective ones). You probably rarely –I’m willing to bet never –stop to think of what you have already learned in life and all that you learn every day.

You have learned to walk –no mean feat –using hundreds of subtle movements and placements of muscle, weight, balance, and the momentum. you learned to talk –another truly amazing accomplishment you can be proud of-using thousands of words and dozen of complex rules (all of which have down so pat they mesh flawlessly every time you open your mouth to speak). You also learned to read, write ,add,subtract,multiply  and divide; you learned a fair smattering of history geography,science,politicts, and maybe a language or two ;and you probably learned a lot about your favorite passions , whether they are local charities, sports , movies, TV, antiques ,auto mobiles, old coins, high fashion , golf, sci-fi. Then there are the hundreds perhaps thousands, of large and small details you had to learn about your job. And what about all the new “do this” and “do that,” procedures, pick up this, meet so and so at ten thirty next Wednesday , and a whole lot more are doing it or what a fabulous learner you are . The following exercise is designed to help you reconnect with your own native talents as a learner.

                               

                  BRAIN POWER DOUBLER

1.       Review the results of this exercise any time you begin to doubt your incredible learning abilities.
2.       Take out a sheet of paper or open a computer file.
3.       List some of the things you learned in the pursuit of leisure activities, hobbies, or sports.
4.       List things you learned from your current job.
5.       List them for previous jobs.
6.       List other things you have learned unrelated to the above.