Learning Concepts: Making Ideas Your Own

Our ideas help facilitate learning and memorization as well. If you find yourself struggling to memorizing facts, figures or diagrams for a presentation, exam, or speech, try to completely understand inner workings first.

Take Ownership

So that means you need to take ownership – identify with idea. Make idea your own in some way and you'll be more likely to memorize it, after all, we always seem to remember what we can explain.

Perhaps you can try to:

1. Create personal associations with idea and its uses. How have I experienced this in my every day life?

2. Envision each step and process from beginning to end. How will idea work? How will you use it?

3. Begin thinking of idea from different angles. What if you changed it in some way? Will this tweak make it more memorable? You'll absorb more, learn quicker, and improve your memory. As a side benefit, you might even become more confident with your knowledge base and even persuade people.

Give it a try. How are you more effective?

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CHALLENGE: Try to learn and think of new ways of phrasing our questions to obtain most optimum and desirable answers. Open-ended questions provide a better understanding of underlying circumstances and often produce candid (frequently unexpected)pieces of information that could have been easily withheld with close-ended questions.

If your manager, subordinates or co- workers aren't producing as you'd like, give them "why" treatment and inquire about their performance (be professional, but nice!).

If you ask right questions, you'll yield answers you're looking for.

======================== © Copyright 2004, Ronnie Nijmeh, ACQYR.com. The ACQYR team provides masses with witty yet strategic ideas leading to self- improvement and growth. For more information and exciting, fresh motivational articles, visit: http://www.acqyr.com Live. Learn. ACQYR.