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Accelerated Learning for the 21st Century

This package is a combination of six cassette tapes along with a workbook and other handouts. Colin Rose is a British expert on accelerated learning techniques and Brian Tracy is a well-known U.S. peak performance coach. According to Rose and Tracy, intelligence is not fixed, it is like a muscle that can be developed, and learning how to learn is the key. The authors cite several examples where corporations have successfully used these techniques to improve their employees learning capacity. For example, one major telephone company cut their training in half with some of the accelerated learning techniques described in this package.

Key ideas

All information enters the brain through one of the five senses. The majority of this information processing is through touch (kinesthetic), sight (visual) or sound (auditory), and most people rely more heavily on one of these methods, (kinesthetic — 40%, visual — 35%, auditory — 25%). It is best to use all three if possible (multi -sensory learning). For example you could read the learning material out loud (auditory), view graphic images related to the topic (visual) and feel actual samples of a related item (kinesthetic).

Professor Howard Gardner of Harvard has identified seven intelligences, or aptitudes. These include: Linguistic intelligence, Math and logical intelligence, Visual/spatial intelligence, Musical intelligence, Interpersonal intelligence, Interpersonal intelligence, and Bodily intelligence. Unfortunately, traditional education only uses a few of the. Gardner recommends using at least two to three of them whenever possible to maximize learning.

Effective Reading

Each time you read, use a different color highlighter to go over the main ideas. Add question marks, exclamation points and other markers to help you process the information easier.

Occasionally try reading the material dramatically to help remember it or summarize it out loud in your own words.

Think about the material just before bed to help your subconscious act on it while you sleep.

Write key ideas on post-it notes and lay them out in order, or devise some other way of recording the key ideas.

Paraphrase any notes in your own words — this requires more concentration and can help you memorize the material better. . . . . .