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7. Understand that actions affect learning. Successful students
know their personal behavior affect their feelings and emotions which in turn
can affect learning.
If you act in certain way normally produces particular
feelings, you will begin to experience those feelings. Act like you’re bored
and you’ll become bored. Act like you’re disinterested, and you’ll become disinterested.
So the next time you have trouble concentrating in the classroom, “act” like an
interested person: learn forward, place your feet flat on the floor, maintain
eye contact with the professor, nod occasionally, take notes, and ask
questions. Not only will you benefit directly from your actions, your
classmates and professor may also get more excited and enthusiastic.
8. Talk about what they’re learning. Successful students
get to know something well enough that they can put in into words. Talking about
something, with friends or classmates, is not only good for checking whether or
not you know something, it’s a proven learning tool. Transferring ideas into
words provides the most direct path for moving knowledge from short-term to
long-term memory. You really don’t “know” material until you can put into
words. So, next time you study, don’t do it silently. Talk about notes,
problems, reading, etc. with friends, recipe to chair, organize an oral study
group, pretend you are teaching your peers. “talk-learning” produces a whole
host of memory traces that result in more learning.
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