Have you ever thought about this? Who is the greatest teacher of them all? I will give you a quick answer and elaborate more on the topic.
The greatest teacher of them all is the one who teaches you how to fish for yourself, not the ones who fish for you.
Greatest teacher of them all is the one who teaches you the skills of learning it for yourself, not the one who gives you the knowledge.
Imagine you are a student, what is the most important skill you should have? Doing mathematics, learning science theorems, or is it history? It is how to learn it for ourselves. Imagine if you know how to self-learn, that you have mastered the skill of self-learning. It has the potential to make you not only excellent in your own studies but help you to carry you through a lifelong journey.
In modern days adult learning is all about self-learning. How often we have heard dropouts from universities and colleges doing great things with their lives. The secret is they have mastered the self-learning, easy way or hard way. Nowadays when information is at our fingertips, we only need a strategy and motivation to build our path into the future. Even motivation and habits can be learned.
From time to time in my blog, I have and will be giving you tips to build yourself to a self-sustainable learner. I have done it in the past, whenever someone wants me to teach something, I tend to teach them how I learned it myself in the first place. Over the years my strategies have changed, and I am still learning. Maybe you are also. It seems there is no one universal answer.
Following list will get enlarged over time when I add more strategies I have used in the past. These are introductions. As I have mentioned, I assume you are a lifelong learner and do your own part of learning them by yourself.
But the constant thirst for improvement have led me into places I have never thought of going. When I see why sometimes strategies do not work, after some time they lose their charm and the mind seem to be dropping back into some dips of the life. Which is natural and it is because all those equations and strategies forget we are just humans (fundamental problem in scientific method). We are not machines where we can program ourselves into be successful each and every time. This problem, until we understand we will be living in an illusion. One of my teachers told me what it really means, Metacognition.
Metacognition by definition means an awareness of one's thought processes and an understanding of the patterns behind them.
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