Power Up Your Mind: Learn faster, work smarter

There is no time to learn

You keep getting stuck

Your memory does not work properly

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Possible causes

You are trying to be too ambitious.

What to do

Break what you are trying to learn up

into manageable chunks.

Possible cause

You have not stopped to work out

how important your planned learning

is to you.

What to do

Complete a personal learning action

plan.

Possible cause

You do not have enough strategies for

coping when the going gets tough.

What to do

Read Chapter 6 for some good ideas.

Possible causes

You are trying to remember too

much.

You have not made the connections.

You need to take a different kind of

notes.

You are tired.

Your learning is too passive.

What to do

Break it up into smaller chunks. You

are more likely to remember the

beginnings and endings of what you

learn!

Try to find the patterns or connec-

tions between the things you have

learned by classifying them in ways

that work for you.

Try mind maps or free notes, see page

123.

Sleep on it.

Make it more active!