No One Ever Taught Me How to Learn by I. C. Robledo

Author:I. C. Robledo
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: smart thinking cognitive psychology personal train, development increase productivity intelligence get, mind brain power teach yourself maximize principle, smarter study skills getting things done lifelong, raise iq habits achievement achieve goals success, we anything growth self independent education more, abilities be understand genius knowledge memory
Publisher: I. C. Robledo
Published: 2015-03-16T00:00:00+00:00

Seek out Feedback

Without some form of feedback, it can be difficult to improve in your abilities and learning. Feedback will be most important when learning a skill, such as Tennis, Chess, or a language, but feedback is also important in book learning too.

The best persons to get feedback from will be teachers and experts, or really anyone who has a substantial amount of knowledge in the topic over you. In order to improve, it will be essential to become aware of what your weaknesses and strengths are. An expert will be able to tell you what your problem areas are, and will also be able to show you how you can make progress.

The problem with not seeking feedback is that it’s easy to become overconfident in your skills without it. You may think you are progressing quite well and doing a great job, but in reality you could be making a terrible mistake. And worse yet, you may be making that same mistake over and over because you’re unaware of it.

Aside from seeking expert feedback, it can also be useful to consider system feedback. This means getting feedback from the system in which you’re working. For example, when working with computer programs, if something is done incorrectly it’s common to get either an error or an alert of some kind. This would be feedback you’re getting from the system itself. It’s telling you that you did something wrong and you should fix it. Microsoft word, for example, gives simple feedback if you do a spelling/grammar check. It will alert you to spelling mistakes and simple grammar issues. Through this feedback, you can improve the quality of your writing.

Expert feedback is often more detailed and helpful to your specific needs. System feedback can be a bit difficult to figure out, or it may not tell you exactly what you need to do to fix the problem. Often times, with system feedback you will simply be alerted that what you tried to do did not work. For example, if you try to print off a page and your printer doesn’t print it out correctly, then that is also system feedback. It’s very basic because all it tells you is that it didn’t work, but it is still feedback.

Some professionals, such as computer programmers, will become quite expert at dealing with system feedback. They will design a program, run it, and then check through pages of feedback or error messages to verify if every part of the program is working correctly. It can take many years of expertise and practice for a programmer to effectively use detailed system feedback to make corrections to her program. For most people, expert feedback will be simpler, and the preferred option. System feedback can be used as a secondary source of information that will also be useful to share with an expert.

We’ve discussed expert feedback and system feedback, but there are other forms of feedback as well. You may get feedback from peers or clients/users. Peers are

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