Unit 3 Emotional Intelligence and Spiritual Intelligence.pdf
Study skills retain 90% of what you learn
1.
2. Introduction
0 Imagine if you had a bucket of water. And every time
you attempted to fill the bucket, 90% of the water
would leak out instantly. Every time, all you’d retain
was a measly 10%. How many times would you keep
filling the bucket?
0 The answer is simple: just once!
0 The first time you noticed the leak, you’d take
action. You’d either fix the bucket or you’d get
another bucket, wouldn’t you?
4. Yet that’s not at all the way we
learn!
0 Almost all of us waste 90% of our time, resources, and
learning time because we don’t understand a simple
concept called the Learning Pyramid. The Learning
Pyramid was developed way back in the 1960s by the
NTL Institute in Bethel, Maine. And if you look at the
pyramid, you’ll see something really weird.
0 That weird thing is that you’re wasting time. You’re
wasting resources. You’re just doing everything you
can to prevent learning. And here’s why…
5. To summarize the Numbers
(which sometimes gets cited
differently) Learners Retain
Approximately…
0 90% of what they learn whey the teach someone else/use
immediately.
0 75% of what they learn whey they practice what they learned.
0 50% of what they learn when engaged in group discussions.
0 30% of what they learn when they see a demonstration.
0 20% of what they learn from audio-visual.
0 10% of what they learn when they’ve learned from reading.
0 5% of what they learn when they’ve learned from lecture.
6. So why do you retain 90% when
you teach someone else or when
you implement it immediately?
0 There’s a good reason why.
0 When you implement or teach, you instantly make mistakes.
Try it for yourself.
0 In this presentation, after I’d read the information, I cited the
loss rate at 95% instead of 90% to begin with. I had to go back
and correct myself. Then I found three more errors, which I had
to fix. These were factual errors that required copy and paste,
but I still made errors.
0 So as soon as you run into difficulty and start to make mistakes,
you have to learn how to correct the mistake. This forces your
brain to concentrate.
7. But surely your brain is
concentrating in a lecture or
while reading?
0 Sure it is, but it’s not making any mistakes.
0 What your brain hears or sees is simply an abstract
concept. And no matter how clearly the steps are
outlined, there is no way you’re going to retain the
information. There are two reasons why:
1. Your brain gets stuck at the first obstacle.
2. Your brain needs to make the mistake first hand.
8. Reason 1: Your brain gets
stuck on the 1st obstacle.
0 Yes it does. And the only way to understand this concept is to pick
up a book, watch a video, or listen to audio. Any book, any video, any
audio. And you’ll find you’ve missed out at least two or three
concepts in just the first few minutes. It’s hard to believe at first, but
as you keep reading the same chapter over and over, you’ll find
you’re finding more and more that you’ve missed.
0 This is because the brain gets stuck at the first new
concept/obstacle. It stops and tries to apply the concept but
struggles to do so. But you continue to read the book, watch the
video or listen to the speaker. The brain got stuck at the first point,
but more points keep coming. And of course, without complete
information, you have ‘incomplete information’.
0 Incomplete information can easily be fixed by making the mistake
first hand.
9. Reason 2: Your brain needs to
make the mistake first hand.
0 No matter how good the explanation, you will not get it right
the first time.
0 You must make the mistake.
0 And this is because your interpretation varies from the
writer/speaker. You think you’ve heard or read what you’ve
heard/read. But the reality is different. You’ve only
interpreted what they’ve said, and more often than not, the
interpretation is not quite correct.
0 You can only find out how much off the mark you are by
trying to implement or teach the concept.
10. How do you avoid losing 90%
of what you’ve learned?
0 Do what I do.
0 I learn something.
0 I write it down in a mindmap.
0 I talk to my wife or clients about the concept.
0 I write an article about it.
0 I do an audio.
0 And so it goes.
0 A simple concept is never just learned. It needs to be
discussed, talked, written, felt, etc.
11. The next time you pick up a
book or watch a video,
remember this…
0Listening or reading something is just listening
or reading.
0It’s not real learning.
0Real learning comes from making mistakes.
0And mistakes come from implementation.
0And that’s how you retain 90% of everything
you learn.
