How to Better Your Brain By The Way You Learn - By: Live2Excel

“Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.” (Chinese Proverb).

The majority of people do not take notice of their brain, until it fails them. The vast activities and functions that are going on in our brains go unnoticed while we sleep, eat, breathe, talk, think and even love. We cannot exist without our brain for even one second. It is even active while we sleep.

Our brain is also responsible for whom we are to a great deal, because we are what we think about and we think about according to what we learn. This illustrates that we should take great care to better our brain through optimising our lifelong learning if we want to improve all aspects of our lives.

According to Wikipedia, learning is acquiring new or modifying existing knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, or preferences and may involve synthesizing different types of information. We must learn this knowledge, behaviours, skills and preferences first, before it can contribute value to who we are.

So how do we learn, how does it make us who we are and how can we better our brain by optimizing our learning?

How we learn is best summarized by William Glasser, an American psychiatrist of the 1940's: "We learn 10% of what we READ, 20% of what we HEAR, 30% of what we SEE, 50% of what we SEE and HEAR, 70% of what is DISCUSSED with OTHERS, 80% of what is EXPERIENCED PERSONALLY, 95% of what we TEACH TO SOMEONE ELSE."

The bad news about the findings of Glasser is that our learning system in our colleges and schools up to very recently is greatly inadequate, because it is almost only based on READING. There is currently a great revolution being waged to change this way of learning in our schools and colleges, but what about our "oldies" that spent our schooling years READING to learn - how can we better our brain by the way we learn now during our after school years?

The best way to better our brain now is by investing in learning programs that will not only utilize the principle as in Glasser's theory, but will also use online technology, which we use everyday, to help us with lifelong learning and better our brain.

Lifelong learning is imperative to keep up with the demands of the modern age and ensure we stay competitive in an ever changing world. Optimum learning combined with regular diet and exercise will lead to better and improved brain capacity. We cannot ignore the way we learn, we need to change the way we learn and we need to use it in our lifelong learning for bettering our brains.

About the Author

Zarelsie Van der Merwe is a Personal Change and Development Consultant and author.

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