How You Learn Affects How Well You'll Do

Posted by Erzsebet Homolya
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Choose one of the following methods that reflect how you prefer to learn and retain new information:

- I learn best when I hear the information. If someone tells me something or I listen to an audio file, that’s how I learn best.

- I learn best when I read the information. Those processes of seeing the words, reading the words and taking that new information into my brain helps me learn new information fast. In addition, if I didn’t understand something I can reread those sections that caused confusion.

- I learn best when I’m in a hands-on environment. When someone works with me on a one-to-one basis, whether in person, or in an online environment, I can perform the steps at my own place and I don’t have to worry about getting behind and looking stupid.

I learn best when I can see and hear the information. I like video presentations, but most times the instructor goes through the steps too fast for me, and I can’t keep up or even mimic the required actions. Therefore, I prefer to learn at my own pace by being able to start and stop a video presentation until I’m certain that I’ve completed all the steps required that will produce the desired results.

People learn by seeing, hearing, doing, reading, and by being given choices. What works for one person is guaranteed not to work for everyone.

After reviewing the previous four learning methods, could you identify with one or more of the examples? Hopefully you’ve said yes. Now, to apply your successful IM mindset formula, you will choose a learning platform that’s in sync with your personal preferences.

If you learn best by watching a video and seeing how something is done step-by-step and you can stop and start the movie, then you will learn the formula faster. However, if you're not a visual person and you learn better by seeing the steps written down or printed out on paper, then you will achieve your success faster by reading written materials.

The tough call happens when one of the top Internet marketers or so-called gurus makes you click a link to join their webinar, podcast, video presentation, or they ask you to download a PDF file or read their latest report just so you can learn their insider secrets.

The problem is that if their information is not delivered in the learning medium that works the best for you, then you can buy every program and promise that comes along, but you’ll have more of a tendency to fail every time.

We all need to make a start at one point or another. Why not let it be a free place?