Power Up Your Mind: Learn faster, work smarter

How resilient are you? Use the chart below to help you review your own skills, based on the

list above.

Resilience activity How good are you?

Persisting

Pondering

Choosing challenging learning options

Experimenting

Staying motivated

Being in touch with feelings

Knowing how you can improve

Accepting unplanned experiences

Overcoming weaknesses

There are four main areas of resilience to work on: how you persist,

being an adventurer, dealing with difficulties, and dealing with

confusion.

Persistence

To make any progress with anything, learning to learn included, you

need to persist with new learning methods until they become easier.

You have to keep going when other conflicting pressures crowd in on

you. At the simplest of levels, you need to learn how to concentrate.

You have already seen how the brain likes to have regular short breaks.

And later in this section you can discover what is happening when you

are in a state of flow and time has almost lost any meaning for you.

The truth is that we all have different concentration spans.

At a practical level, there are simple things you can do to

improve your persistence. The list below gives you some ideas.

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