Cool ways to learn

Whether you are the coach, teacher, or learner the following will help. As a learner try find environments and coaches who tick these boxes and if you are a teacher then this has worked for me on both sides of the fence. In my experience how well we learn boils down to the simple practice of: There must be a want, curiosity, or interest in order to learn anything. Learning something in which we have little, or no interest is very rough. Having a good teacher or mentor (not always essential as DIY can work but warning as from personal experience of DIY story. Taking time is inevitably faster than rushing) In teaching try hit as many senses as possible and gamify as much as possible. Repetition. Do things over and over again until it seeps into your psyche and becomes pretty much automatic. If you're looking to teach people, especially kids you need to stimulate them by taking them to see something with their own eyes and if it grabs them then you can introduce some discussion about it. Once you have peeked their curiosity to the point where the answer to “how would you like to do this?” is a resounding yes, only then move to introduce some instruction and coaching from an expert in the field who will make it fun. Great teachers are knowledgeable and fun teachers. They inspire people to want to do the work to get better in an environment that is not onerous but in large part, enjoyable. There's almost nothing worse than an expert who really knows their stuff yet bores the pants off people. Once you've learned the fundamentals it is so important to practice. As an example, I'm trying to learn a new system of keeping track of what I'm doing and came across a brilliant method that was taught to me by a coach via video and PowerPoint slides. I'm at the stage that I know it and can do it but if I don't do it again for two or three days I will have to refer back to my notes or to the videos to refresh myself. I have no doubt that after couple of months the sequence and the system will be a part of my life and unforgettable for a fairly long period of time. There is nothing truer and what you don't use you lose. Today, it is so easy to teach people through a combination of audio, visual and kinetic senses enabling them to gravitate naturally to their favourite style of learning. When I read books, I've gotten a lot better at stopping and writing down in my phone any notes I wish to remember. So often in the past I vaguely remember something and then it takes me ages to track it down the underlined bits or highlights in a book. One of the downsides of audio books, especially when listening whilst driving is it is impossible to take the notes. However, I now stop the audio book and dictate something important I want to remember, recording important bits of information to go back to later. Some great ways of internalizing any learning are to write about it, teach it to others or use the information over and over again until it becomes part of what you know without having to refer back to notes.