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Come stai?
(isso é “Como vai?” em Italiano).
Os seres humanos estamos continuamente aprendendo, mesmo após ter terminado os estudos, e por isso às vezes parece que não vamos ser capazes de nos lembrar de tudo o que aprendemos, né?
O Business Insider sugere as seguintes quatro estratégias para melhorar suas habilidades de aprendizagem:
4 Strategies for Remembering Everything you Learn
Force yourself to recall.
The least-fun part of effective learning is that it’s hard. In fact, the “Make It Stick” authors contend that when learning is difficult, you’re doing your best learning, in the same way that lifting a weight at the limit of your capacity makes you strongest.
It’s simple, though not easy, to take advantage of this: force yourself to recall a fact. Flashcards are a great ally in this, since they force you to supply answers.
Don’t fall for fluency.
When you’re reading something and it feels easy, what you’re experiencing is fluency.
It’ll only get you in trouble.
Exemplo: Say, for instance, you’re at the airport and you’re trying to remember which gate your flight to Chicago is waiting for you at. You look at the terminal monitors — it’s B44. You think to yourself, oh, B44, that’s easy. Then you walk away, idly check your phone, and instantly forget where you’re going.
The alternative: You read the gate number. Then you turn away from the monitor and ask yourself, what’s the gate? If you can recall that it’s B44, you’re good to go.
Connect the new thing to the old things.
“The more you can explain about the way your new learning relates to prior knowledge,” the “Make It Stick” authors write, “the stronger your grasp of the new learning will be, and the more connections you create that will help you remember it later.”
One killer technique is to come up with real-life examples of principles you’ve just uncovered. If you’ve just learned about slant rhyme, you could read poems that exhibit it. If you’ve just discovered heat transfer, you could think of the way a warm cup of cocoa disperses warmth into your hands on a cold winter’s day.
Reflect, reflect, reflect.
Looking back helps. In a Harvard Business School study, employees who were onboarded to a call center had 22.8% higher performance than the control group when they spent just 15 minutes reflecting on their work at the end of the day.
“When people have the opportunity to reflect, they experience a boost in self-efficacy,” HBS professor Francesca Gino tells us. “They feel more confident that they can achieve things. As a result, they put more effort into what they’re doing and what they learn.”
While reflecting may seem like it leads to working less, it leads to achieving more.
Vocabulário
to contend – lutar, competir
weight – peso
to recall – recordar
ally – aliado
gate – portão
terminal monitors – monitores do terminal
idly – preguiçosamente
to relate – relacionar
prior – prévio
to grasp – compreender
killer – ótimo, bacana
to uncover – desvelar
slant rhyme – meia rima. É um tipo de rima em que duas palavras quase que rimam mas não rimam totalmente
to onboard – treinar, formar
to reflect – refletir
to boost – estimular, encorajar
