Learning 2 Learn 201 Mohan Joseph Bernard

Let's be Serious!

Bad news this talk is not just about improving GPA - SHORTSIGHTED APPROACH Good news, it is about becoming EDUCATED, LEARNED...

What is Learning?

Memorizing... Learning is Hard... Overcome hardship by spending more time - WRONG Finding effective ways of learning - RIGHT

Consequences: Wrong approach to Learning

• Friction -> prevents enjoyment -> pain instead of pleasure...slack

• Learning becomes barrier instead of stepping stone to success

• Your goal is to be EDUCATED and not become a BLACK BOX

Who is Your greatest enemy when it comes to learning well?

• Beware of no one more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us. ~ Charles Spurgeon

What do you wish to take? Why?

There is no free lunch

Success!Cost?

To Get Success

What will you do?

Secondary School

Higher Education

Study Hard

Study Smart

What will you do?

How to study smart?

PRINCIPLE OF SOWING AND REAPING

Teachback

• Teach peers what you learnt

• You learn better as you are forced to use your own words to teach

• Take turns to teach your study group members

• Will it work?

Read Write Speak Think

Read...Write...Speak...Think

• READ

• Read SCMP aloud daily for 15 mins

• Guaranteed to transform your understanding of written text & speaking skills

• How to Read a Book: Mortimer J Adler

• Story of Namashivayam

Read...Write...Speak...Think

• WRITE

• Pen a half page journal every day on any topic

• Use short simple sentences

• Story of the Typist

Read...Write...Speak...Think

• SPEAK

• Look at the mirror & speak on any topic for 5 mins daily

• Record, listen & consider what changes are required

• Toastmaster

Speak Avoid Bad Presentations

Avoid Bad Presentations TURNING THE LIGHTS OFF

• What are you saying to the audience?

• I worked hard on my slides...

• I am comfortable as the audience is looking at the slides, not me

• Slides are important, I'm not...

Avoid Bad Presentations RELYING ON ONE LEG OF THE STOOL

• 1. Content

• 2. Delivery

• 3. Visual Presentation

• Too much reliance on any one leg will make you fall

• Balanced approach = common sense

Is there POWER behind your PowerPoint?

PowerPoint Karaoke

Too much content on a slide +Too many slides =PowerlessPoint

Avoid Bad Presentations DON'T BREAK COMMANDMENT # 1

• Thou shall not READ the slides

• Smiling is welcome, laughing is not cool, it simply tells you are nervous

• Content unexplained adds '0' value to your presentation

Read...Write...Speak...Think• THINK

• Revising a topic -> superficial understanding

• Thinking critically -> deeper understanding

• Reflection enables you to use complex ideas and concepts

Read...Write...Speak...Think

• THINK

• Use framework or models for thinking

• Categories

• Tables, Matrix...

• Thinking on your feet

Think

When will you

start to do?

What will you do?

Will you act right now?It is always easy to act

tomorrow...

...tomorrow will never come if you don't act

right now!"A year from now you will wish you

had started today"

LifeLife

Bonsai or Sherman?

Most locked doors are in your

mind

Ancora Imparo

Questions?

God Luck