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Top 50 Free Websites 2011 Skills And Tools

Top 50 Free Websites 2011 Skills And Tools

Top 50 Best Free Websites 2011 Skills And Performance Tools

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Learn New Skills Blog– The #1 Trusted Resource For Skill
Development Strategies: Grow Yourself, Grow Your Business: Including A
Combination Of Free And Inexpensive Skills And Internet Performance Tools For
Online Marketing.

Our company delivers more value on any product or service we deliver-Guaranteed.

“I say money spent wisely always brings back great returns and rewards.  I also say
using free resources are the heart, the pulse and the prudence of wise people.”

We have two themes behind the top 50 best free websites 2011 skills and perfromance tools: 

1.    No Money? No Problem!!!  Free SkillsFree Internet Tools

2.    Using skills and performance tools together is like magic!!!

At Thanksgiving time, everyone thinks about being grateful and sharing, and I am no different.  I produced this free list for my students, customers and loyal followers who want to continue to learn.  I know that everyone that reviews this information will get tremendous help and value, and ideally, something meaningful develops for you by using the top 50 free resources.

These top 50 best free websites 2011 and resources are all FREE sites.  Free SkillsFree Tools.  Use them every day to grow yourself or your organization.

Let’s start with a quick lesson and a quick footnote on blogging.  When it
comes to blogging and posts and a blogs structure like headlines, redundancy
seems to be the hallmark in order to maximize your post, your search engine
optimization and your keyword density. Sometimes the best way to getting the message through loud and clear is also to repeat it and revise it subtly, because saying the same thing different ways clicks with some people better.  You will find this post to be true to this footnote for the reasons just mentioned.

Originality is the art of concealing your source- Thomas Edison

While there is a lot of truth to this quote, that is not our philosophy.  We’ve
taken the high ground to share and enlighten you on the most effective skills
and performance tools on the internet.

The top 50 best free websites list is the best of the best free resources for employees and managers who want to learn new skills so they can grow personally and professionally, as well as for
entrepreneurs wanting to grow their business offline or online by taking it to the next level.

Top 50 Best Free Websites 2011 Skills And Performance Tools.  The 5 categories we picked, the exact categories will be revealed in a second, for this free list is in the areas of:

  1. Skill development and strategies and free internet skills
  2. Educational training and knowledge
  3. High level performance tools for effectiveness
  4. High level internet skills and tools for perfromance and
    online marketing

This list is unique.  Sure we have a few of the basics that any top
50 site holds, more importantly, it also holds more real gems than it does the
typical sites usually mentioned.  Some of our sites at first glance may seem a little obscure or unfamiliar to main the stream, but we assure you they are loaded with excellent resources in the categories we included.  Who really needs another Yahoo reference or Google search tool. Sure, several of the critical must have tools are there, but for the most part, this list is quite unique.

Our top 50 best free websites list of free resources online was compiled specifically for both employees and managers looking to grow personally and professionally, but also for entrepreneurs looking to start a businesses, or small businesses looking to grow to the next level.  All  of these sites for learning new skills and knowledge, as well as for using high  level performance tools and internet tools are FREE, except one- and they would have won the best of the best in free media publicity.  Only trouble with this site is: they charge a very small service fee-less than a cup of coffee.  More about them later.  All in all, there are 50 free websites online 2011, covering 5 categories, with one #1 winner in each category as the best of the best.

Before I go further, I recognize that all readers may not know me or know anything about me.  When you learn a little about me, you will understand why this list about free resources, these categories and why this list will appeals to my customers and any
employee, manager or entrepreneur, basically anyone wanting to learn new skills.

Here’s a little about me…and I’m not just another pretty face.  My name is George Napoli and I’m a little older and part of the new 40 generation.  I’ve been passionate about entrepreneuring since 1989.  10 years later I had 450 employees and I was
fortunate to sell my business to my Executive Management Team.  In my three year employment agreement before the sale was completed, I initiated a new learning initiative called Insight Career and Professional Development.

Between that program and my online boutique specializing in free coaching
for inventors and entrepreneurs in growth strategies for new business
development, I have trained and coached thousands of employees, managers,
inventors and entrepreneurs in Leadership Training, Six Sigma, New Business
Development and a wide range of subjects, core disciplines and life changing
skill sets like innovation, thinking and creativity.  I thought I retired in 2008, more on this in the entrepreneur category.

In an era of quick decisions, push buttons and scrolling bars, some people like to scan and read the headlines only for their content.  The top 50 list can easily be scanned by
category.  Others like to read more to learn and understand the full storyline.  Either way, the choice is yours.

The internet is a powerful resource that can easily help you learn new skills and find useful tools for being effective and for improving your online marketing performance.  You just have to know where to look.  Sure, you can use Google, Yahoo, or Bing to
search for sites, but we wanted to save you a lot of time and frustration, and
best of all- they are all in one place and FREE!!!.  These websites and resources are all trusted authorities within their category.

This top 50 best free websites 2011 skills and performance tools will be especially helpful to anyone looking to learn new skills and especially entrepreneurs and small businesses wanting to use the most effective performance tools and online marketing tools to help them grow and accomplish their goals.   Learning new skills and having effective performance tools are especially important to becoming a top performer.

Top 50 Best Free Websites 2011 Skills And Performance Tools- Influencing Key

It doesn’t matter if you are an individual, employee, or a business owner marketing online or offline..  The internet is a major influencing key and learning tool for you.  Also, if you are an entrepreneur and looking to start a local business, statistics show that over 65% of all consumers check the internet first for local companies before they
buy.  If you haven’t already done so, it’s time to embrace the future by marketing your small business online.

Top 50 Free Webistes 2011 Skills ANd Performance Tools-Awards Badge #1

Top 50 Free Webistes 2011 Skills ANd Performance Tools-Awards Badge #1

Here is the official award emblem for our 1st  place winners in each of the 5 categories for the top 50 best free websites 2011 skills and performance tools.  These resources are all dedicated to their body of knowledge (BOK), meaning they are not merely directories that point you to other places.  Their common goals are for the advancement of learning new skills, or providing you with the most effective and functional skills and performance tools.

Here are the 5 categories we chose, a total of 10 in each category, for our top 50 best free websites 2011 skills and performance tools:

  1. Education- there is no better place to acquire knowledge and develop skills than on the web.  From leadership skills to any subject you want to learn about and master: it’s right here in these top 10 free education sites.  Top online universities, top online training programs, and websites that teach you new skills and knowledge in a wide variety of subjects and disciplines.
  2. Entrepreneurs– it’s all about knowledge and experience, and having the right skill sets to be successful.  These are the best of the best for free sites for business owners and entrepreneurs wanting to use high performance tools to become more effective, to grow and manage their business or for launching a new business and products.
  3. Internet Marketing– Many on this list will be new to you.  These sites will greatly enhance your internet presence for online marketing.  Great for offline and online marketers.  These high level Internet skills and high level performance Internet tools will jump start your business, or take it to another level.
  4. Social Media Support– everyone knows the many popular social media sites out there.  So you won’t see them here.  What you will see is support for social media
    to help you measure your social media effectiveness in marketing.  We also include a selection of sites that are analytical and track and monitor social media, as well as bloggers that are respected authorities for helping you manage your blogs effectively.   As more online marketers turn to social media, communicators need to find monitoring tools to track and measure social media activities, visibility and trends. These sites give you the inside story into hot subjects, trends and what people are actually tweeting, posting and writing about.  Find out if they are
    talking about you and find out what they are saying.
  5. Free Publicity/Media Online no  better way to launch products and services and promote your business than  through free advertising and free publicity. In our opinion, these ten across  the board are real gems. These sites, just like many of the others are  typically used daily for our online marketing needs.  Start using them today.
Top 50 Best Free Websites 2011 Skills And Performance Tools- Power of the Web

It’s easy to forget these days that the web started out as a place for academics and
researchers to trade data and knowledge.  Recapture the web’s brain-expanding potential with our free resources for educating yourself online, learning new skills and
using internet performance tools.

By now you may be asking why we chose- learn new skills and internet performance tools from all the possible subjects available?  And why emphasize employees and entrepreneurs as our target listeners?  In an era of a shrinking economy, 401k’s
reduced to 201k’s and record unemployment levels, people need to become more
self reliant-which drives the entrepreneurial spirit.  That covers why we chose entrepreneurs.  Employees and Managers need new skills to compete in the job market, to perform better and to grow personally and professionally and they need them to run and manage the business they were hired for. That’s why the top 50 list is geared to them as well.

Universal World of Entrepreneurs

Universal World Of Entrepreneurs

Universal World Of Entrepreneurs

Statistics tell our story and these facts don’t lie.  In the Universal World of Entrepreneur’s and Employees, where everyone of us resides, less than 5% of all business owners and managers have all the skills necessary to run or manage a successful business. On the other side of the same coin, that means 95% of employees and entrepreneurs need to enhance their knowledge and skills.  Every one of us competes in this Galaxy no matter what their profession or business.  They include a cast of colleagues and competitors we like to call:  Rising Stars, Fast Trackers, Existing Talents and Wannabe’s.  You can read all about this Galaxy on our blog.

With so much emphasis on consumers becoming self reliant for their own economic well being, it’s important to note that never before in the history of our country, has it been easier for entrepreneurs to start a new business.  Today, entrepreneurs can launch a small business faster and with less upfront capital than ever before.  This is especially true with the explosion of the internet.

The five categories we chose gives all consumers and especially employees/managers and entrepreneurs, the most focused selection of educational skills and performance
tools, with the widest range of utility for success in learning and growing
personally and professionally, for achieving business goals, enriching lives
and improving life styles.  Growing from a Wannabe or Existing Talent to Rising Star and Fast Tracker, should be everyone’s aspirations, and it is certainly within everyone’s reach The top 50 best free websites for 2011 have two dimensions to them.  Some are skill  driven, for knowledge and learning, the others are tool driven for increasing
performance.  They can be used for everything from learning to be a successful entrepreneur, becoming a top performing employee, or for anyone looking to enrich their lives and life styles through learning.

Learn New Skills staff believes it’s a COMBINATION of SKILLS and the most effective “USE” of PERFORMACE TOOLS that will help you grow personally and professionally, and help you become more successful as an online or offline-business bar none.

Before we introduce our 50 candidates and our 5 first place winners let’s take a deeper look at what exactly a skill is and what exactly a tool is, since we use these terms throughout.  It’s important to know and understand the difference between them.

Skills (sk

l) n.

1. Proficiency, facility, or
dexterity that is acquired or developed through training or experience. See
Synonyms at ability.

2.

a. An art, trade, or technique,
particularly one requiring use of the hands or body.

b. A developed talent or ability,
something you learn: writing
skills.

Tools  (t

l) n.

1. A device, such as a saw,
used to perform or facilitate manual or mechanical work.

2. A machine, such as a
lathe, used to cut and shape machine parts or other objects.

3. Something regarded as
necessary to the carrying out of one’s occupation or profession: Words and content are
the tools of our trade.

4. Something used in the performance of an operation; an instrument: “Modern democracies have the fiscal and monetary tools . . . to end chronic slumps and galloping inflations” (Paul A. Samuelson).

 It’s like Magic!!!   And the most important thing to remember…using skills and the right performance tools in combination- is like MAGIC!!!

In our opinion, knowledge comes first, than skills.  And when it comes to skills
and tools, skills out-trump tools every time.  That’s being loyal to our company name: Learn New Skills.  However, when the right high level performance tools for either being more effective, or for online marketing are used effectively, it’s the tools that win and keep you ahead of the competition.  Here is an example of what we mean when we
say- using new skills and tools “in combination” is like MAGIC!.

Top 50 Best Free Websites 2011: Skills And Performance Tools- Like Magic

“Using skills and performance tools in combination is like Magic!   I will relate it in a short story.

I’m playing golf one day in a major local charity outing and one of the prizes is a $350 ticket to a magic show, that if won, would be brought right to your home for you and your friends to enjoy.  I love magic.  I keep searching for the kid within, so I buy
three tickets for a good cause, and place two tickets in the magic show box and
one ticket goes in the hopes of winning tickets to the Yanks vs. The Sox.

Later that evening I learn that I was the winner to the magic show.  So I’m
sharing my story with a friend about winning, and telling my friend how much I
love magic, and that I’m thinking about stopping by the local magic shop to buy
some magic tricks.  Maybe develop a new hobby to entertain myself and close friends.
He laughed, though I didn’t think that it was a particularly funny statement.  It was his comment after the laugh that got me.  His comment brings everything to light.  He said “you can buy all the magic tricks, props and tools you desire, but at the end of the
day, you will never be a magician.”  That is what we call a teachable moment and what we mean by knowing the right skills and using the right tools together…it’s like magic- you become a MAGICIAN!

“Success is never final and failure is never fatal”

When it comes to learning, the best lesson of all is to learn that we need to change our one dimensional orientation towards goals, to a dual-dimension.  When we have a single orientation towards goals like success, the trouble is, once we become successful; sometimes we lose our sense of purpose, drive and motivation.   Not so when you have learning and new skills as part of your goals.  There is something always new to learn and learning lets you grow personally and professionally and lets you take any successes to the next level.

Over the next 5 days, we will release  one category each day starting with free publicity online.  We think the free publicity online category  is one of the most interesting and useful and runs at the heart of any entrepreneur  or new businesses.  Typically, they have  little to no cash and resources.  We end  our top 50 with what we think is the Heart  of the top 50: EDUCATION.  The other  three categories will be revealed in no particular sequence, but are none the less  of great interest and value to all.

In closing I want to share a little insight on the three  things that everyone KNOWS:

 

Three Things We Know

Three Things We Know

 

  1. We know what we know
  2. We know what we don’t know
  3. We don’t know what we don’t know

From  this we learn, there is so much more to know.

Like we said in our opening statement:

“No Money? No Problem!”  Using skills and performance tools in
combination is just like MAGIC!!!

We hope you find our top 50 best free  websites for 2011 useful and valuable.
Learn new skills for self development and improvement today.  Use high performance internet tools today to  grow your business to the next level. Your future successes, dreams and aspirations  depend on it.

 Top 10 reasons to use the top 50 best free websites 2011 skills and performance tools:

  1. top 50 best free websites 2011skills and performance  tools: all sites are all certified and trusted
  2. top 50 best free websites 2011 skills and performance  tools: all sites are the best of the best on the internet
  3. top 50 best free websites 2011 skills and performance  tools:   they are FREE
  4. top 50 best free websites 2011 skills and performance  tools: learn new skills
  5. top 50 best free websites 2011 skills and performance  tools: use internet performance tools for online marketing is prudent
  6. top 50 best free websites 2011 skills and performance  tools: dedicated sites and not directories
  7.  top 50 best free websites 2011 skills and performance  tools: saves you time from finding them
  8. top 50 best free websites 2011 skills and performance  tools: grow personally
  9. top 50 best free websites 2011 skills and performance  tools: grow professionally
  10. top  50 best free websites 2011 skills and performance tools: grow your business to next  level

 

 

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Think Better And Be More Creative By Laughing-By Learn New Skills Blog

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Top 50 Free Websites 2011 Skills and Perfromance Tools

Top 50 Free Websites 2011 Skills and Perfromance Tools

There is no better time to talk about joy, smiling and laughter than at Thanksgiving when everyone is hopefully in a good mood, sharing and grateful for what life has brought all of us. That’s the theme for today’s post.

Also, next week is Thanksgiving and time for annual top 50 free websites.

Top 50 Free Websites 2011 Skills And Performance Tools

We are getting excited about the BUZZ on our top 50 free websites for 2011. We publish this list just in time for Thanksgiving…keep your eyes open for it.

Why the BUZZ for this list? Our theme explains it best.

No Money. No problem.

All the FREE skills and tools for employees, managers and entrepreneurs looking to learn new skills and tools for improving performance:  Grow Yourself.  Grow Your Organization.  Inlcudes internet performance tools, for small businesses looking to grow and take their business to the next level.  Great for online//offline marketing.

More on that next week, now back to thinking, creativity and laughter.

Think Better And Be More Creative By Laughing-Article Post

So now you ask, what does laughter have to do with thinking? OK, let’s look at the medicinal value of laughter and thinking and at the same time, lay down some background on the value of laughter, smiling, joy and happiness.

The good, the bad, the ugly- laughter is the best medicine and when you smile, the world smiles with you.

Think Better And Be More Creative By Laughing- background
Being full of joy, smiling and laughing and enjoying even the smallest things reduces the effects of stress, increases brain activity and heightens creativity, all of which helps you overcome challenges in difficult time.

Think Better And Be More Creative By Laughing-the bad

Hey, doom and gloom consumes us today, at every corner. Work and unemployment, economic slowdown and no jobs, 401K’s reduced to 201K’s and the story just starts there. It is easy to get consumed by it and become negative thinking: this is no time to laugh or enjoy life.

Think Better And Be More Creative By Laughing-the ugly

It’s easier to be depressed in bad times than good. When you get depressed, your mind shuts down, you lose your creativity and people tend to isolate themselves. Depression comes with a full laundry list of symptoms, none f them good. It’s also a huge precursor to stress. The two make you uptight, cranky and allow you to easily push people away when you need their support the most.

Think Better And Be More Creative By Laughing-the good-
We typically use the left side of the brain in most activities, but not when we laugh and smile and experience joy. When we laugh, we light up the right side of the brain. Our research reveals that when people have been struggling with a problem and feel stuck, our focus narrows, and our ability to solve problems is greatly reduced and limited. Experts say, we do much better when we break a way and enjoy a good hearty laugh.

Here’s the bottom line: if you have a sense of humor, and smile and laugh regularly, you mind brightens up and you come up with fresh ideas and make better decisions and your problem solving abilities are enhanced.

Think Better And Be More Creative By Laughing is published by Learn New Skills Blog.

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Awards Badge Top 50 Free Wesbites

Awards Badge Top 50 Free Wesbites

For Immediate Release:  Learn New Skills Blog announces they will publish their annual Top 50 Best Free Websites.  Their top 50 free websites for 2011 are for Skills And Performance Tools. On or before Thanksgiving.

Top 50 Best Free Websites 2011: Skills And  Performance Tools: Summary

These free resources  are for Managers and Entrepreneurs that want to grow personally and  professionally, as well as for Entrepreneur’s who want to take their business  to the next level, by learning Internet skills and tools for online  marketing.  Learn New Skills Development Strategies, as well as High  Performance Tools To Improve Online Marketing Free.

It’s that time of year again for two traditions: 

  1. It’s time for Thanksgiving, and that
    means it’s a time to be grateful and to share
  2. It’s coming to the end of the 2011 and
    time again for our traditional top 50 free websites expose’.

Here is the theme the top 50 best free websites 2011:-  No Money?  No Problem!!!

The Award Badge for the best of the best.

Awards Badge Top 50 Free Wesbites

Awards Badge Top 50 Free Wesbites

This top 50 FREE list are all FREE websites that  you can use for skill development strategies: learn new Internet skills and internet performance tools for online marketing.   Recapture the web’s brain-expanding potential with our top 50 free  resources for educating yourself online and using online performance enhancing tools.

This list was compiled not only for employees and  managers looking to enhance their personal and professional skills, but also  for entrepreneurs looking to start a usinesses, or small businesses looking to  grow to the next level.

All of these websites for learning new skills and  using high level performance online tools are FREE.  All in all. there are  50 free resources online, covering 5 categories, with one #1 winner in each  category.

Here are the 5 categories we chose, a  total of 10 in each category, for our top 50 free best websites 2011:

  1. Education- there is no better place to develop skills than on the web.  From leadership skills to any subject you want to learn about and master is right here in these top 50 free education sites.  Top online universities, top online training programs, and websites that teach you new skills in a wide variety of subjects and disciplines.
  2. Entrepreneurs- grow and manage your business or launch on new business using the free websites.
  3. Internet Marketing- High level Internet skills and high performance Internet tools all free.
  4. Social Media- connect and make new friends or find new customers.  Great for taking your business to the next level
  5. Publicity/Media Online- no better way to launch products and services and promote your business than through free advertising and free publicity.

These websites have effective tools that will be  especially helpful for online marketers.
They will also help managers and entrepreneurs become a top performers.

Top 50 Best Free Websites And Free Resources Online 2011:Skills And Tools

The web is a powerful resource that can easily  help you learn new skills and find useful tools for improving your online  marketing performance.  You just have to  know where to look.  Sure, you can use the  main search engines like Google, Yahoo, or Bing to search for sites, but we  wanted to save you a lot of time and frustration, and best of all: they are all  in one place and the top 50 free websites 2011 are all trusted authorities in
their category and ranked with the best of the best at the number 1 spot.

Whether you are an individual or employee looking to grow, or a business  owner marketing online or offline and wanting to grow to the next level, the Internet is a major influencing key  and learning tool for you.

Learn what all smart online marketing companies already know:  if you are a wannabe entrepreneur, or small  business offline, statistics show that over 65% of all consumers check the  internet first for local companies before actually buying their products and
services.  If you haven’t already done  so, it’s time to embrace the future by marketing your small business online.

We will  publish the top 50 list by Friday November 18th.

You can reserve your copy now by filling in the form on the  right of the blog.  We will email you a  hard copy you can keep and place right on your desktop and use every day to  improve your performance.

Top ten reasons to utilize the top 50  best free websites 2011: Skills And Performance Tools:

  • top  50 best free websites 2011: Skills And Performance Tools: all sites are trusted
  • top  50 best free websites 2011: Skills And Performance Tools: all sites are authorities
  • top  50 best free websites 2011: Skills: Skills And performance Tools: all sites are free
  • top  50 best free websites 2011: Skills: Skills And Performance Tools: you can learn new  skills
  • top  50 best free websites 2011: Skills: Skills And Performance Tools: using them will
    give you the skills and tools all top performing Internet marketers use
    everyday
  • top  50 best free websites 2011:: Skills And Performance Tools: dedicated all sites are
    dedicated to contents in their category and they and not just directories
  • top 50 best free websites 2011:  Skills And Performance Tools: saves you time and
    frustration top  50 free websites 2011: Skills And Performance Tools: helps you grow  personally
  • top  50 free best websites 2011: Skills And Performance Tools: helps you grow
    professionally
  • top  50 best free websites 2011: Skills And Performance Tools: helps you grow your  business to next level

Stay tuned,  the top 50 best free websites online for 2011 are coming soon, and you won’t want to miss  them…they are that good!!!

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Improve Memory with unique tips

Use these tips for Improving memory

Learn new skills- improve memory

So now that  we know about basic recall and memory from our last post, here are some tips and guidelines to  improve your memory and basic recall.

Learn new skills by paying attention

You can only remember what you have learned and you
can’t recall it if you have not paid attention to it, or made a strong effort to
encode it into your brain. “That what you give energy too grows.”  The more time and mental energy you give something, the more you remember it.  It takes about eight seconds of intent focus to  process a piece of information through your hippocampus and into the  appropriate memory center. That means you can’t do more than one thing when you  need to concentrate! If you distract easily, try to absorb the information in a
quiet place where you won’t be interrupted.

Tailor information you want to retain to your learning style. I’m very visual, and most people are visual  learners; they learn best by reading or seeing what it is they have to know.  But some are auditory learners who learn better by listening. They might
benefit by recording information they need and listening to it until they
remember it.

 Learn new skills-involve your senses

Involve all your senses. Even if you’re a visual learner, read out loud what you want to
remember- if you can recite it rhythmically, even better. Try to relate
information to colors, textures, smells and tastes. The physical act of
rewriting information can help imprint it onto your brain. Relate information
to what you already know. Connect new data to information you already remember,
whether it’s new material that builds on previous knowledge, or something as
simple as an address of someone who lives on a street where you already know
someone.

Learn new skills-all about organization for improving memory

Organize information. Do you want to remember it?  Write it down first.  Write things down in note pads and datebooks and on calendars;  take notes on more complex material and reorganize the notes into categories  later. Use both words and pictures in learning information. Understand and be  able to interpret complex material. For more complex material, focus on  understanding basic ideas rather than memorizing isolated details. Be able to  explain it to someone else in your own words. If you can’t summarize it our  loud, that means you really have not absorbed or understand it completely.

Learn new skills-practice make perfect

Rehearse information frequently and “over-learn”. Review what you’ve learned the same day you learn it, and at intervals thereafter for the next 7-10 days. What
researchers call “spaced rehearsal” is more effective than “cramming.” If
you’re able to “over-learn” information so that recalling it becomes second
nature, so much the better.

Be interested and motivated, and keep a positive mental perspective. Tell yourself that you want to learn what you need to remember, and that you can learn and remember
it. Telling yourself you have a bad memory actually hampers the ability of your
brain to remember, while positive mental feedback sets up an expectation of
success.

Learn new skills- develop a system for improving memory

I use these like a religious person uses a bible.  I have several go to systems when I absolutely have to remember something…and they work.  Mnemonic devices to improve memory. Mnemonics (the initial “m” is silent) are helpful  tips of any kind that help us remember something, usually by causing us to  associate the information we want to remember with a visual image, a sentence,  or a word. Sometimes they are also called moronic systems. Whatever you pay  attention too, you will be better able to recall it so these systems put you on  the right track to recall.

Learn new skills- common devices for memory

Common types of mnemonic devices include:

Visual images – a microphone to remember the name “Mike,” a rose for “Rosie.” Use
positive, pleasant images, because the brain often blocks out unpleasant ones,
and make them vivid, colorful, and three-dimensional — they’ll be easier to
remember. Made up acronyms about the subject matter are great moronic memory
tools to help you recall.

Sentences in which the first letter of each word is part of or represents the initial of
what you want to remember. Millions of musicians, for example, first memorized
the lines of the treble staff with the sentence “Every good boy does fine” (or
“deserves favor”), representing the notes E, G, B, D, and F. Medical students
often learn groups of nerves, bones, and other anatomical features using
nonsense sentences.

Acronyms, which are initials that creates pronounceable words. The spaces between the  lines on the treble staff, for example, are F, A, C, and E: FACE.

Rhymes and alliteration: remember learning “30 days hath September, April, June, and
November”? A hefty guy named Robert can be remembered as “Big Bob” and a smiley
co-worker as “Perky Pat” (though it might be best to keep such names to
yourself).

Jokes or even off-color associations using facts, figures, and names you need to recall,
because funny or peculiar things are easier to remember than mundane images.

Learn new skills-in bite size pieces

Ever hear of the magic of 7?  That’s the largest number most people can remember with ease, and why a phone number is 7 digits long.  “Chunking” information; that is, arranging a long list in smaller units or categories that  are easier to remember. If you can reel off your Social Security number without  looking at it, that’s probably because it’s arranged in groups of 3, 2, and 4  digits, not a string of 9. “Method of loci”: This is an ancient and effective  way of remembering a lot of material, such as a speech. You associate each part  of what you have to remember with a landmark in a route you know well, such as  your commute to work.

When it comes to improved memory, hopefully learn new skills gave you some great insight.

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Learn New Skills-The Essence of Learning New Skills-How We Learn

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The Essence of Learning New Skills-How We Learn

Learn new skills or learning anything new can be very complicated. To simplify the topic, I’ve included the essence of how we actually learn about new subjects of
interest.  Here is the essence of how we learn new skills. How we learn new skills is actually pretty simple and the process is very enlightening.   Final footnote: we use learn new skills as the premise for our posts, but it is also a metaphor for learning anything you want to learn.

Learn new skills-how we learn

  • * 10% of what we READ
  • * 20% of what we HEAR
  • * 30% of what we SEE
  • * 50% of what we SEE AND HEAR
  • * 70% of what is DISCUSSED WITH OTHERS
  • * 80% of what is EXPERIENCED PERSONALLY
  • * 95% of what we TEACH TO SOMEONE ELSE

Learn new skills- in three steps

Notice how the amount or retention grows once you begin to use the skill and teach the
skill.  We always used a three step practice to training our employees on new skills.  Shortly you will see how it ties together with the trhee levels of knowledge.

  1. We teach the skill
  2. They use the skill several times
  3. They teach the skill

Once you reach the level where you can teach the new skill you learned, that’s when you really begin to grasp the knowledge. This doesn’t happen overnight, but the quicker you can get through these three stages, the quicker you own and learn new skills.

Learn new skills-the three levels of knowing

Now that you know “how to learn”, it’s time to bring our attention to the essence
of knowing and knowledge. You can’t be a great thinker or learn new skills
without understanding the three levels of knowing and the three levels of
knowledge.

This model identifies the three levels of knowing.

The Three Things You Know

The Three Things You Know

 

 

 

 

 

So now that you know…what are you going to do with it.
Here are few more enlightening statistics when it comes to learning.

  • 75%  will do nothing
  • 15% will look at it
  • 10%-will learn, practice and teach the new skill

That’s the magic number to learn new skills. Statistics tell the tale.  Only
10%- actually it is less than 10% of people will actually even learn new
skills, less will practice the new skill and even fewer will eventually teach
it.  That’s why so few people really ever succeed.

Call it lazy, call it procrastination, call it not fun.  Once you change your mind set
to learn new skills and begin to embrace them as tools that will help you
achieve your goals, get ahead in life and prosper, you will be more inclined to
put yourself in that 10% grouping.

Learn new skills-the three levels of knowledge

This model shows the three levels of knowledge.

Knowledge-The Three Steps To

Knowledge-The Three Steps To

  1. Basic recall is the lowest level in
    the hierarchy of knowledge. That’s where you first learn new skills, your first introduction to learning anything new.
  2. Comprehension- this is where you begin to learn new skills and understand new things.
  3. Application- this is the final step to knowledge the gateway to really learn new skills.  Those who reach this level with a skill, actually begin to develop their real skills.
Learn new skills- the rest of the story

The rest of this post will focus on basic memory, and we will address the higher levels of knowledge in the next posting.

Learn new skills- all about memory

In simple terms, memory is the mental activity of recalling information that you have
learned or experienced. That simple definition covers a sophisticated process
that involves many different parts of the brain and serves us in different and
unique ways.

Just like muscular strength, your ability to remember increases when you exercise your
memory and support it with a proper diet and other healthy habits. There are a
number of steps you can take to improve your memory and retrieval capacity,
especially when you learn new skills. First, however, it’s helpful to understand how we remember.

Learn new skills- short term memory

Memory can be either short-term or long-term. In short-term memory, your mind stores
information for a few seconds or a few minutes: that’s about the time it takes you to meet look up a friend’s telephone number. Short term memory is fragile, and it’s meant to be. If not, your brain would quickly be faced with “sensory overload” if you retained every phone number you called, every person you met. Your brain is also meant to hold an average of seven items: called the magic of (7 +-2), which is why you can usually remember a new phone number for a few minutes. Anything more than 7 and you have difficultly recalling.

Learn new skills-long term memory

Long-term memory on the other hand, involves the information you make an effort
(conscious or unconscious) to retain, because it has some significance or is
important to you. For example: information on colleagues, and friends). Some
information that you store in long-term memory requires a conscious effort to
recall: episodic memories, which are personal memories about experiences you’ve
had at specific times; and semantic memories (factual data not bound to time or
place), which can be everything from the names of the planets to the color of
your child’s hair. Another type of long-term memory is procedural memory, which
involves skills and routines you perform so often that they don’t require
conscious recall.

In our next from learn new skills we will post, we will review improving memory.

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