ENHANCE YOUR LEARNING EFFECTIVELY WITH THESE: 7 HABITS

Ashmitha. Bikkina
5 min readSep 9, 2023

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One of the most vital and timeless skills in human existence is learning. From the moment we set foot on earth, we’ll start the infinite learning cycle where there are many ups and downs and immersing ourselves like sponges in the ocean of information. Think back to where we fell down while learning to walk or ride a bicycle by falling down. “Mistakes are the stepping stones of success”- where we can learn many lessons from our mistakes. Learning is not just a tool for academics it’s a lifelong journey to change our future. As we navigate through the complex life process, adapting to new environments and accepting new opportunities.

So, let’s deep dive into habits that will enhance your learning process.

7 HABITS-

1. Analyze your thoughts.

2. Set goals.

3. Make reminders.

4. Plan when and where to read.

5. Take reviews.

6. Ask for suggestions.

7. Try to resolve them.

1.Analyze your thoughts:

Analyzing your thoughts helps to know where you are and what you need to do to improve yourself in the process of learning there are various steps and some of them are:

Ø Self-analysis:

The important step in analyzing your thoughts is self-analysis where you need to analyze your thoughts like in which area you are lacking and try to highlight them by making a note of them and analyzing the points that need to be worked upon. By analyzing we get clarity on our abilities and help in self-evaluation for personal growth also. This will help to analyze yourself and make it easy to focus on lacking parts. This helps in organizing and understanding where you stand and helps to rectify them. It plays a major role in decision-making which will enhance your choices aligned with skills and values.

2. Set goals:

After analyzing your thoughts set goals that need some effort and this gives you a direction on how things need to be done the purpose of doing the things that need to work and ways to make them work.

Ø Plan of action:

A plan of action will give clarity on how things need to be done. Making note of things that need to be done will give you specificity and clarification. Make your goals into simpler steps to make them easy to do. Simplifying steps will make learning more effective where you learn more efficiently and simpler steps will help you learn fast

3. Make reminders:

Creating reminders serves as motivation, helping you remember tasks and ensuring timely completion, which leads to better progression. Also, timely reminders will help with procrastination a lot.

Ø Tips for remainders:

Reminders are a great help for physical or some emotional sort of motivation that helps to complete your tasks on a daily basis There are so many tools in making reminders they are like-

1. Google calendars.

2. To-do list.

3. Physical reminders (sticky notes).

4. Scheduled emails.

5. Reminder apps.

There are so many ways to make reminders, but making this will help in focusing on tasks that need to be done.

4. Plan when and where to read:

After making reminders planning on when and where to read is a must and should, because many distractions like social media apps or any other physical distractions that make you disturbed will waste your time.

Allocate some free time, even if it’s just 30 minutes, but ensure you have a quiet and peaceful place to read Try going with time-based or concept-based studying to make it even more impactful. Time-based or concept-based studying will help you to focus more on topics and making it a habit will help in the future.

5.Take reviews:

Making concepts apply in your real life will help in understanding what you learned and where you were from the starting point to here whether you updated or are still lacking this will give you an understanding of what you learned. There are some ways to analyze your earnings. They are as follows:

1. Memorizing concepts.

2. Doing quizzes.

3. Teach others (so that you understand where you are).

This will help in analyzing the knowledge that you gained up to now and help in pointing out them to make it easy to rectify them.

6. Ask for suggestions:

After reviewing our performance, we can assess ourselves by the knowledge that we gained but not making such mistakes again is the main task we got here there are some simple things that can be overcome by practice over time.

Ø Simple Ways to ask for suggestions:

i. Asking for suggestions from experts on sites like Quora will help in analyze ourselves.

ii. Asking open-ended questions to our friends or colleagues for their perspectives will also help us to think in a new way.

iii. Seeking suggestions will also help in problem-solving and also give you an alternate way of thinking.

iv. There are some online communities related to a specific field that help in seeking suggestions or engaging in study groups or collaborative projects will also give an idea of how things work.

7. Try to resolve them:

After getting feedback trying to resolve them by finding the root cause that leads to particular issues will help a lot in understanding how to solve them. Attempt to resolve them yourself; if you can’t, don’t hesitate to seek guidance from mentors, peers, or colleagues who may have a solution. Break it down into parts to understand it even better and work on it consistently to resolve it. Experimenting and learning from mistakes is a better way to learn and also help in the future if you same issue.

CONCLUSION:

All the habits mentioned above are the basic habits that help in analyzing and improving oneself by putting in the effort. They really worked for me to enhance my reading skills. Habits can change a man’s future whether they are good or bad they can help you to grow or to hold you back from growing also, so the habits we choose will decide our future. Having habits is not enough we need to put them into action to see clear results, from setting a goal to applying it in our daily life takes a lot of effort, and that changes our future on how we apply them. As we go through habits that make learning effective we need to follow these if we want to empower ourselves and explore or learn new things effectively. Let me know how well they worked for you in the comment section.

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