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I love seeing learning in action. When people just ‘pick something up’ – just like that! Of course, not everything needs to be learned quickly, but there’s no question that when we all learn faster then we can engage with, direct and live life more fully. Being able to learn more quickly means we also have more chance of success in all kinds of fields.

Learning on the right side of the brain

We have (for all practical purposes) two basic modes of knowledge for everyday life:

Factual knowledge is, of course, the accumulation of facts in the mind and the ability to recall these facts after having learnt them thoroughly (potential quiz contestants take note!).

Procedural knowledge is ability or skill which is activated by having information about something functionally combined with experience with that something. Procedural knowledge is quite likely to include factual knowledge of the same area, but the reverse is not always true. For example, you can have a factual storehouse of all the parts of the body in your mind, but not have the procedural knowledge to do surgery. You could know all the ingredients in a meal, but not how to cook them together in such a way as to produce a delicious dinner for your friends, and so forth.

We learn in different ways –reading, observing other people, and experimentation, for example. Elkhonon Goldberg describes how new information is processed by the right brain and then ‘made familiar’ by the left side (1). Speeding up the rate at which this right brain absorption/left brain cementing occurs can speed up learning.

Speed learning by osmosis

The most popular ‘learning concept’ of the middle ages was ‘apprenticeship’. An apprentice would actually live with the master builder (for example) and observe them closely all day long, while carrying out any task they were required to do. In this way, knowledge was almost ‘caught’ as an attitude as well as a set of practical skills. This may seem a strange notion to the modern mind – but there is a strong tradition of this kind of learning and it still has much to offer us. Watching people who are very good at something very closely – not as hero worship, but as a way of connecting to their capacity – can bring great dividends.

This hypnosis session (specially created for hypnosisdownloads.com) is designed to relax and open up the mind of the would-be learner, to encourage a good ‘learning attitude’ for better fast learning in all areas.

Mark

Notes

(1) See The Wisdom Paradox – How your mind can grow stronger as your brain grows older, Elkhonon Goldberg, PhD.