Power Up Your Mind: Learn faster, work smarter

you have been learning and ideally generated by employees, as well

as using sayings from well-known people.

5 Large flowcharts for new projects or change management programs, and

encouraging employees to add their comments using sticky labels,

Blu-tac™, or magnetic strips.

There is a well-known group of sayings that apply some of these

principles about memory in an instantly useful way:

Of course, the percentages may only be roughly right. And as you

get higher up the scale, you are really describing experiential learn-

ing in which you are fully involved. Nevertheless, they are strongly

indicative of an important trend.

What implications does this information have for you at work? How often do you create

opportunities for those you work with to engage their senses when learning?

Memory pegs

You have already seen, in the chart on pages 121–2, a few of the

ways in which the four key principles of memory can affect your life

at work. In this section we will look in a little more detail at how

you can apply these and other principles.

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20% of what you read

30% of what you hear

40% of what you see

50% of what you say

60% of what you do

You remember:

90% of what you read, hear, see,

say, and do