Learning

‘Never stop learning, because life never stops teaching’.

Learning involves far more than thinking: it involves the whole personality including senses, feelings, intuition, beliefs, values and will. The definition of learning is the process or experience of gaining knowledge or skill. An example of learning is a student understanding and remembering what they’ve been taught. The three basic types of learning styles are visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. To learn, we depend on our senses to process the information around us.

Leaning never exhausts the mind.

The following will be a discussion of the three most common learning styles.

Visual

to integrate this learning style into the classroom environment educators need to focus on the following.

• Use graphs, charts, illustrations, or other visual aids.
• Include outlines and handouts for the subject matter.
• Eliminate potential distractions.
• Show diagrams and explain them.
• Leave white space in handouts for note taking.
• Use multiple screens when showing multimedia.
• Benefit from illustrations and presentations that use color.

Auditory

to integrate this learning style into the classroom environment educators need to focus on the following.

• Begin new material with an explanation of what is coming.
• Conclude with a summary of what was taught.
• Include activities like brainstorming or discussion groups.
• Have the learners verbalize the question.
• Acquires knowledge by reading aloud.

Kinesthetic

to integrate this learning style into the classroom environment educators need to focus on the following.

• Use activities that will allow the learners to move.
• Play music during activities.
• Provide highlighters and colored pencils.
• Give frequent stretch breaks.
• Provide a toy to keep their hands busy.
• Enjoy field trips and tasks that involve manipulating materials.

Now, we discuss the benefits of learning which are illustrated below.

• It keeps you healthy

Learning is also exciting and rewarding, so it can be therapeutic for a troubled mind. It helps discovering your unknown potentials, so you stop beating yourself up for failing in one career path. Growing your skill-set helps you realize how useful you are to lots of people, and that makes you happy and mentally healthy.

Learning is an eye of mind.

• It increases your adaptability

Many employees struggle at work when a new CEO comes in, or when radical changes are made to their routine roles. This is where new skills can come in handy. For example, if you take a time management course, you’ll have more time and room to help you adapt to change. Time management training will also help you take on new ways of working with optimism. Also, note that the willingness to learn new skills increases your confidence and nurtures a growth mindset. That helps you grow as a person and a professional.

• It increases your likability

If you know how to repair broken printers or format a computer, everyone at the office will want to be your friend. If you know a foreign language, you’ll naturally draw others to you. Knowing something that other people don’t helps you to relate better with your colleagues at work. It also helps you gain respect and admiration among your peers. And it can increase your chances of getting hired. When you get the interview question, “Tell me something not on your resume,” you’ll have many things to talk about if you’ve recently learned new skills.

• It keeps you relevant

Professional development makes you relevant even when new graduates join your profession. You need to keep up to date with technological changes otherwise your employer will replace you at the first chance they get. Note that the labor market is constantly changing, the economy keeps evolving, and technological advances are sweeping through all sectors of the economy. You’ll find it hard to achieve your career goals without continuing to learn and flexing your professional muscles. You won’t be able to stay ahead of competitors without learning something they haven’t.

• Your brain chemistry changes

The white matter in your brain is called myelin, and it helps improve performance on a number of tasks. The more people practice a new skill they are learning, the more dense the myelin in their brains becomes, which helps them learn even better.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

• Your learning speed increases

Learning a new skill helps you learn things faster over time. By stimulating neurons in the brain, more neural pathways are formed and electrical impulses travel faster across them as you attempt to process new information. The more pathways that are formed, the faster impulses can travel.

• You become a more interesting person

Well-rounded individuals have an easier time relating to others and have more things in common with them. Being a more interesting person will draw others to you and improve the quality of your life as your relationships improve and deepen.

• You adapt better to change

When you learn something new, your mind and your perceptions change, which in turn makes it easier to adapt to the inevitable changes life always tends to bring. Adapting to change is a skill in itself, and the more varied your life experience is, the easier it is to adapt to change.