The Six-Step Plan to Unlock Your Master-Mind
We live in an era when the unprecedented speed of change means: The only certainty is uncertainty; you can't predict what skills will be useful in ten years time; in most professions knowledge is doubling every two or three years; and no job is forever--so being employable means being flexible and retraining regularly. Accelerated Learning into the 21st Century contains a simple but proven plan that delivers the one key skill that every working person, every parent and student must master, and every teacher should teach: it's learning how to learn. The theory of eight multiple intelligences (linguistic, logical-mathematical, visual-spatial, kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist) developed by Howard Gardner at Harvard University provides a foundation for the six-step MASTER-Mind system to facilitate learning (an acronym for Mind, Acquire, Search, Trigger, Exhibit, and Review), and is enhanced by the latest findings on the value of emotion and memory on the process of learning. Combined with motivational stories of success applying these principles, and putting forth a clear vision of how the United States can dramatically improve the education system to remain competitive in the next century, Accelerated Learning into the 21st Century is a dynamic tool for self-improvement by individuals as diverse as schoolchildren and corporate executives. From the Trade Paperback edition.
So what's the best brain wave for learning? It depends. You'll need to be in a beta
state for taking heavy scientific information “on board," i.e., for the initial effort to
understand something. But research shows that the alpha state of “relaxed
alertness" is very effective for consolidating the information that you've already
understood. In the beta state you're concentrating on tackling the immediate
problem at hand or getting through the day's activities. But you're not so open to
flashes of ...