• You need to actively use the information you learn to remember it.

• To become a more effective learner think about how you learn best and then do more of that.

• It requires double the brainpower to read something out loud than it does just in your head.

• Methods for effective learning. Relax. Take in the information in variety of ways. Explore the information in a variety of ways. Show you know the knowledge to others. Review what you have learnt and drop what doesn’t work.

• Learned helplessness is when you have failures in the past and think that those failures limit your life in the present, even though they don’t. Imagined limitations, false limitations.

• You will only learn when you want to learn because it will be of benefit to you somehow. Your attitude towards learning plays a big role in how well you learn something. So think of the benefits it will bring you.

• The more reasons you have to learn something the more motivated you will be to learn it. Ask yourself, what is in it for me?

• The more relevant a subject is to what you are doing the more you will want to learn it.

• The more words that you know the more accurately you can describe what you mean (for linguistic learning style) and the better you can think. Jot down and look up unfamiliar words. Intrapersonal intelligence, find something interesting about the person who wrote it, why does it matter to you? Interpersonal intelligence, discuss topic with a group of people. Bodily intelligence act out something, role play.

• When you have an intention or you want something really bad you have to work towards its achievement and do what you can do to get it, but you have to let that intention go before you will get what you want. You can’t force it. Usually the solution will come to you later when you least expect it. Or when you have done all you can do, just let it go and wait for the result.

• You remember things best at the start and end of something. Break learning sessions down into lots of segments so you have lots of starts and ends. Most people can only concentrate for about 20 mins.

• Find meaning in the things you are learning and you will remember it better.

• If you don’t review the information you learn you will lose that information.

• When learning something imagine you have to summarise it to someone afterwards, and it will help you to remember it better.

• Make a mental picture of the things you learn and you will remember more.

• You remember what is unusual or bizarre.

• Review information at night and then in morning to increase recall.

• Very important that you break up learning sessions by not studying similar subjects after each other. For example, don’t study maths and then do algebra, as this interferes with the brains ability to process and remember that information. Better to break up it by studying something completely different that requires your brain to approach it from a new perspective.

• The ability to concentrate is a skill that must be developed in order to become successful.