How to Use the Power of Knowledge to Enrich Your Life

I was one of those kids that scraped through school by
the skin of my teeth. I had the potential to get top marks,
but just hated to study.

Every time I sat down to study I’d get hungry or sleepy or
bored. And of course you can’t just stay hungry, or stay
awake when you need rest or keep focused when you’re
bored! Hey, any excuse would do.

I am the kind of person that needs things explained in terms
of apples and pears. Let’s get down to the grass roots of it
all. Now apples + pears = fruit salad. Therefore an atom of
oxygen mixed in a bowl with 2 atoms of hydrogen makes
water – COOL! That didn’t seem to be the way the teacher
wanted to explain it though.

This really used to frustrate me because I have an insatiable
appetite for knowledge, if someone would just take the
time to explain it to me in the way that I understand!

So, after getting the shock of my life when I nearly failed
to graduate from High School, I decided to set about
finding out how I could study and actually understand and
absorb the information I was so interested in learning.

I looked long and hard at different methods of learning and
studied the different ways in which people, who got good
grades, managed it. Let me tell you that it has been one of
the most enlightening journeys I have undertaken.

We all learn in one of 3 ways. By learn I mean a)take in
the information b)understand the concepts c)retain it in a
way that we can use and d)regurgitate it in the form that
we have stored it. These 3 ways in which we all learn are
by sight, sound and touch. In other words, through visual
stimulus, audio stimulus and tactile stimulus. When you
figure out the way that your brain likes to take in
information, learning becomes a blast.

So, some people learn by visual stimulus. That means you
are a visual thinker. You can see vivid pictures in your
minds eye, in order to understand something it must be
explained in a way that can help you to ‘see’ what
happens. This can be accomplished by watching a video,
play, slide show or reading. It can also be done by
drawing the scene, seeing a physical model or seeing a
picture.

Some people learn by audio stimulus. This means that
you react well to a teacher telling you what happened
or recounting the scene verbally. It means that you learn
better by listening to tapes as opposed to reading. Such
people are people who tell brilliant stories and tend to
be able to make themself understood by the power and
eloquence of their words.

Some people learn through the physical realm. They learn
from models, physical puzzles, touching and feeling. This
can be accomplished by writing out on a piece of paper and
tearing it up into a puzzle and reconstructing it, by writing
out notes that you review, by drawing a mind map and
putting all the pieces into a flow chart so you can see the
logical progression.

All of us learn using a varied combination of all 3 of these
methods, although one always seems to be dominant.

Sit and figure out which one helps you the most. If you
can ‘see’ vivid pictures in your imagination then you’re
most likely a visual learner, if you like to write everything
out then you’re most likely a physical learner and if you
like to listen and talk then you’re probably an audio learner.

Once you know which way you learn best, you’ve opened
up a whole new amazing world for yourself. As the saying
goes ‘Knowledge is Power’ and believe me, it most
certainly is. In a time that is being hailed as the ‘Knowledge
Revolution’, you can achieve whatever you desire when
you have the knowledge with which to do it.

Find out which way is the easiest and most enjoyable way
for you to learn and open the floodgates to the astounding
world of Knowledge.