Being a quick study doesn’t mean you’re the smartest person in the room. It’s that you’ve learned how to learn, shares Ulrich Bolser. He shares three practical, research-based ways to build your learning skills.
Effective learning often boils down to a type of project management.” – Ulrich Boser
Source: Harvard Business Review, May 02, 2018. Link. A growing body of research is making it clear that learners are made, not born. Through the deliberate use of practice and dedicated strategies to improve our ability to learn, we can all develop expertise faster and more effectively. In short, we can all get better at getting better.
INSIGHTS: We are often amazed by someone’s recall. Boser’s comments about thinking about thinking are inspiring to consider in your own context. Consider how you learned to tie a square knot; right over left, left over right.