When we are children we go to school and learn masses of things every day. A lot of children find ways to take all the information in quickly. When we start working we learn new things less and less. Some jobs require very little learning, so we forget how to learn as we did as children.
If you have forgotten to learn, this does not mean that you cannot learn, it just means you might have to try out different ways of learning before you find the right one for you. Don’t let anyone let you that you must do something, such as you have to down everything that is said or that you want to learn, over and over until you remember it.
Some people find the following help them:
- Participating, doing an activity, game, exercise etc
- Reading documents, manuals, books, instructions…
- Visualising
- Discussing with others
- Writing notes
- Steps to follow or plan
- Creating a phrase or song, like Every good boy deserves fudge (for the bars on the treble clef)
- Listening to music while learning
If you need to be around other people to learn, say discussing a topic, then you are interpersonal. If you can’t learn with people around, you prefer to learn with a self guided method such as reading a text book they you are intrapersonal.
The key is to find the right method for you. Try one method then see if it works, if not try another until you find the method of learning that works. Start at an appropriate level, when learning something new, are you going to start with advanced topics or start at the beginning?
