Random thoughts on over learning:
Be on the alert now and forever. Being wide open will support maximum learning.
Learning is far too important to take seriously.
Keep the child alive in yourself and others.
Everyone forgets most of what they learn. On average, after only a month people forget 98% of the totality of facts and ideas they have experienced.
Overlearning is the antidote to forgetting. The more you overlearn, the more you will remember.
The rate of forgetting meaningless syllables
TIME FROM % OF MATERIAL % OF MATERIAL
FIRST LEARNING REMEMBERED FORGOTTEN
After 20 minutes 53% 47%
After 1 day 38% 62%
After 2 days 31% 69%
After 15 days 25% 75%
After 31 days 22% 78%
Conclusions:
- The greatest amount of forgetting occurs directly after finishing the learning task.
- After the initial loss, forgetting slows down, but then there’s not so much left to forget.
The rate of forgetting of textbook material
TIME FROM % OF MATERIAL % OF MATERIAL
FIRST LEARNING REMEMBERED FORGOTTEN
After 1 day 54% 46%
After 7 days 35% 65%
After 14 days 21% 79%
After 21 days 19% 81%
After 28 days 18% 82%
After 63 days 17% 83%
Conclusions:
- The greatest amount of forgetting occurs rapidly during the first day.
- Forgetting is still sizable during the first two weeks.
- Forgetting slows down after two weeks, but again there is not much left to forget.
SELF LEARNING
Each individual must personally think and rethink, in his or her own mind, the words of a teacher or writer until they are truly understood. Once you reach the answer through your own individual reasoning, your understanding is permanent and unforgettable. You have to do this for yourself and usually by yourself.
WORKING HARD VERSUS WORKING SMART
Working Hard
- Taking whatever time and effort it takes to master the material.
- Over Learning
Working Smart
- Using the most efficient methods to learn as rapidly as possible.
- There is no substitute for efficient and effective study skills.
What should NLP trainers keep in mind when training?
CHARACTERISTICS OF ADULT LEARNERS
- Learning is a lifelong process (as we said)
- For optimum learning to occur, the learner must be actively involved in the learning experience and not just a passive recipient of knowledge.
- Each learner must be responsible for their own learning
- The learning process has affective (emotional), cognitive (intellectual), and conative (doing) components
- Adults learn by doing and should be involved
- Problems and examples must be relevant to the learner
- Adults relate new learning to what they already know so select examples that fit their frame of reference
- Adults learn best in a relaxed, informal environment
- Intimidating adults usually leads to resentment and not to learning
- The use of a variety of techniques to appeal to all of the senses helps to mitigate monotony and boredom
- Learning flourishes best in a win-win, non-judgmental environment.
- The trainer is a change agent
- The trainer’s role is to present information or skills or to create an environment in which exploration can occur.
- The participant’s role is to take what is offered and apply it in a way that is relevant and best for them
- The trainer’s responsibility is to facilitate training and the participant’s responsibility is to learn
Now it makes sense why we offer all our students the chance to repeat the NLP training as many times as they wish. Please check out our NLP Practitioner or NLP Master Practitioner or NLP Train the Trainers