Is learning an art? Yes, it is, and almost every art can be mastered with the help of a professional. What is it about learning faster that makes it so special? The answer is that learning faster allows a person to implement the same skills and knowledge that everyone around them is learning too much faster and this gives them an upper hand over others in life. There can be two people doing the same thing and bringing about the same results both in quantity and quality, how will then a winner be selected amongst the two? The answer is simple; the winner is the person who was able to do it faster. And the person who will be able to do it faster will be the person who was able to learn it faster in the first place.
There are some simple learning principles that everyone can follow to learn anything faster. If people can learn in a better way, they can naturally teach in a better way and that allows the future generation to be full of promises. Learning with the intent to learn is very important. If a person is not learning with intent to learn but to only pass his/her time or to argue with the person teaching it to them, then they will not be able to learn anything in their whole life. To learn, an attitude for learning patiently by respecting the knowledge is very important.
To learn better, one needs to learn it more practically. Usually, people rely on texts and experiments to understand new things, but that is a very slow and ineffective method of learning. If a person learns through practical and real-life situations, then they learn it much faster. Also, a person must keep a feedback cycle active to realize the shortcomings in their methods. Feedbacks are important because they allow a person to see the blind spots that the others can see and then improve on it. Whatever that is learned should be learned with keeping in mind that the process of learning is rather important than finishing it. People are result-focused, and they should be, but they should not forget that the process is even more important. Without focusing on the process, they might get results, but they wouldn’t have learned the things accurately, and most of the time, they might not even get results in the first place.
It is almost obvious and natural that a person should be more productive and be focused to learn better. Without focus, a person can’t be productive in anything they do, and without being productive, no one can learn anything new. That is why people should be able to map out a schedule for themselves which allows them to be focused on whatever it is that they are trying to learn. Focus is one of the key elements for learning anything faster. Also, people try to multi-task and learn different things at once so that they can complete their job of learning faster. But that is not the right way to learning anything. If the mind is occupied in little parts to everything that the person is trying to learn, then it will only be able to grasp very little about everything and it will learn nothing properly. This is also a common mistake that is found in slow learners of anything new.
Would you like to read more about this topic? This book might interest you: Fast Learning Methods.