Monday 23 March 2015

Tips To Properly Improve Your Self Directed Learning Skills

By Zelma Hurley


If you are human, then you surely crave to learn a lot of things. You may want to be bilingual, read more books, or pick up an instrument. Whatever it is that you dream of doing, you may want to look into it with a teacher. If you do not have a teacher that can teach you what you aim to do, then just look for an alternative.

However, not everyone can afford paying for one. In such cases, then you just have to personally teach yourself. You need motivation to do that though. If you opt to choose yourself, then you have to teach yourself first with the self directed learning skills. Here are those tips to remember in this regard.

First, you have to improve your focus. This basically means that you have to pay attention to one task at a time. You have to avoid and get over your multitasking paralysis. Even if you already have a lot of things that you aim to learn, you will not be able to learn more if you do not set your focus on them a single task at a time.

If you have already chosen the field that you can focus on, you should then define it. This just means that you have to create a structure that you will follow through goal setting. If you have a goal that you aim to achieve, then it should be easier for you to set a path which you will want to step on to achieve that.

Make little steps. When you want to learn something, you cannot just take a giant leap for it. You have to work what you want to learn little by little, just like baby steps. That little steps will eventually accumulate until you notice that you have already learned what you want to learn. These little steps will become your foundation.

You should learn about pre-existing systems as well. These are the systems that are necessary for those stuff that you are planning to achieve. When these pre-existing systems become known to you, you should not underestimate them. Instead, you have to make sure to latch on to all of these pre-existing systems.

For that pre-existing systems, you will be required to find various tools and techniques related to them. The said tools and techniques exist so that you can make a better structure of what you are planning to learn. Once you find the said tools and techniques, then you have meticulously and promptly test them to find whether or not they are effective.

Increase the stakes. Even if you have enough willpower to move forward, that alone is not sufficient for reaching your goals. You need other ingredients if you want to make a pot of success. Commitment is one of them. Other ingredients to add would be incentives and accountability.

You can talk to other people about what it is that you are doing. However, you should refrain from them them about what you are thinking to do. That will just decrease the motivation you have toward your work. More than that, it feels more real if the output is done already before you tell anyone about it.




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