Smart Life Book Bundle by I. C. Robledo

Author:I. C. Robledo
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: genius critical intelligence focus habit learn app, learning brain mind improvement change exam school, experiment success student teacher grade potential, mensa gifted iq mindset how be training psychology, exercise mental graduate novice mastery improve, college expert skill education performance enhance, test power problem solving add adhd attention peak
Publisher: I. C. Robledo
Published: 2017-04-04T16:00:00+00:00

Connect Information Together

It’s important to relate what you learn to your prior experiences or to other phenomena. As an example, there are roughly 100 billion neurons in the brain, and roughly 100 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. This is a connection, relating different pieces of information.

Why is connecting information together in a meaningful way important? The mind doesn’t work well with isolated facts that build no connection. As an example, how can the average person make sense of the stars in the sky at night? It seems incomprehensible that someone could make any sense of it, or remember them without some kind of meaning behind them. Although most of us today wouldn’t be particularly concerned with learning deeply about the stars, it was essential that our ancestors learn them. They used them for navigation and for knowing when seasons were going to change. Using the stars for these purposes was important for survival, important for managing their lives and gave them a greater understanding of the world around them.

So, how did our ancestors make sense of these random bright dots (the stars) up in the sky? Rather than look at them as isolated dots, they saw them as interconnected. Our ancestors saw figures in the stars such as Osiris, an Egyptian God of the afterlife. They built stories around these figures. Some of them were good, some were bad, some were strong and some were weak and needed protection. Stories are a good way of connecting information too. Our ancestors may have been smarter than some of us would give them credit for. They used sound learning practices to learn the stars. And they used sound teaching practices too, because by linking the stars together into grand images, and telling stories around them, they insured that the children and young adults of their time would also learn the stars, increasing their odds of survival.

In connecting information together, the most important goal is to build an understanding. Memorization has a place in learning (such as when learning concepts and rules), but when we simply memorize we may not truly understand the information, because we haven’t necessarily taken the time to connect it in a way that makes sense.

There are many ways that we can connect new information that we are learning with prior information we’ve already absorbed. If you think about it, something everyone has is prior personal experiences. Whether you have experience working at a specific job, growing up in the city, as a member of a debate team, or any other unique experiences you’ve acquired in life, these are experiences that are completely ingrained as a part of you. They make sense to you because you’ve lived through them. Therefore, when you’re learning something new if you can find a way to relate the material to your prior life experiences, you will find that this connection makes your learning much more reliable. Relating back to your personal experiences can sometimes be a stretch, especially with more abstract concepts, or with ideas that seem to have no relationship to your life.

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