Power Up Your Mind: Learn faster, work smarter

Your mind does not seem motivated to learn

254 Power Up Your Mind

Possible causes

You have temporarily lost your sense

of curiosity.

You are under too much stress.

Your environment is wrong.

What to do

Stop watching so much television!

Plan to spend an evening doing some-

thing you have never done before.

Your mind is elsewhere, worrying

about something else. Work out what

the something else is and what you

could do about it to improve things.

Ask for help from someone you trust.

Prepare a special place to learn at

home or at work where you feel really

good and where you have all the

equipment you need at your finger-

tips. Turn off all mobile phones and

put other phones on voicemail.

Possible causes

You had awful experiences of learning

at school.

You are not really certain that you

want to do the learning.

You are going for the wrong topic!

You are being too hard on yourself.

What to do

So did many other people! But learn-

ing need not be like it was at school.

Use what you know about learning

styles to select something that really

suits you.

Use the formula on page 63, R +V +P

+I = M, to work out your motivation.

If it is not high enough, think again!

Use the plan on page 246 to help you

be sure that your learning is going to

help you do what you want to do.

Take a break. Celebrate what you

have done so far. Ask a friend for

their advice.