Are you a strong-willed person trying to improve your learning skills? Then you must definitely check out a few brain training techniques, which will help you grow as a person, learner, and more. There are certain activities, games, and tasks that you can practice every day and become good at learning and expand its capacity with time. Below, we have mentioned some of the brain training techniques to give you a strong foothold in becoming a good learner.
- Observe the Details and Memorize
We learn things by observing, and this is one of the skills to develop at its best. You can start with observing random people in crowd, and try memorizing at least 5 aspects about them. Later you can recall what you had seen and practice observation with this activity, almost every day if you can. You can bring a change in the activity to make things interesting than monotonous. Next time, you can look around the surroundings and memorize few elements from the same, and try recalling those after a few hours.
By consistently observing and remembering things, you exercise your brain to become more observant, subconsciously. Thus later, when you are not carefully observing things around, you will be surprised how well you still remember the crucial elements, without consciously jotting those down in your memory. Visual details create a huge impact on our mind, and practicing observation through visual imagery, is one of the ways to enhance learning skills.
- Play Indoor and Outdoor Sports
To enhance your learning skill and thinking ability, sports and games have a contribution too. While outdoor sports, such as soccer, golf, basketball, athletic activities, work well for your physical fitness, these also promote your mental health, and increase your brain power as well. Indoor games are also incremental in boosting learning calibre. Card games such as Poker, Rummy, 21, Solitaire, Black Jack not only make your memorizing ability good, but help you with mathematical skills as well.
You develop a problem-solving approach by playing both outdoor and indoor games. Certain games are available on the internet as well. Such as playing cards on a rummy app, chess on a board game website, and not to mention video games where you have to make quick moves with strong observation techniques, making you a wise learner.
- Number Based Activities
Another way to improve your learning power is to try out number-based activities. Even solving simple Mathematical problems will suffice. You can practice playing Sudoku and likes every day, or keep busy with calculations involved in daily life, such as how many spoons of sugar you require to make a single cup of a tea, and then how many spoons of sugar you will require to make tea for 12 people, and such numeracy related questions.
Once you get the hang of it, you can take up much more complex Mathematical problems, and apply your financial knowledge to become a better observer and learner in today’s time. You need to constantly ask yourself – why and how. For instance, why pouring four cups of milk in 200 gm custard is better than five cups of milk, when cooking for 2 people.
- Be Imaginative and Visualize
We already discussed about how visual details make a greater impact on mind. Thus, it is evident that motivating the creative side of you is necessary to enhance your learning ability. One of the ways is to get imaginative and visual. Create a scenario or situation in your mind, and try to find solution to the problems there, or simply exercise your brain to think on creative solutions or out-of-the-box idea for easy problems.
You can explore the various types of approach to a single problem, and find the most ideal one by encouraging yourself to think practically, uniquely, yet reasonably. Being creative after all does not mean to think of impossible answers, but one that can be tested, proved, and put to use. The key to such activity is to think differently than others, and thus draw an edge over thinking and imagination, thereby, promoting memory and creativity.
- Take up Writing Notes
Just like how imagining things creatively can help better you with thinking and learning capacity, so can writing notes, do the same. Do not believe us? Consider penning your daily schedule and experiences in a dairy. But, do not delay writing down something that you think is important to you. Note it down instantly. Take a day off from writing, and begin again. When you compare the written notes to only your memory when nothing was written down, you will understand how these notes help you with a better recall.
This activity can be a pastime, as well as an important habit that could help you at workplace or at different points of life. Growing a habit of noting important things you notice around you or writing about meaningful experiences can shape your thoughts in many ways and influence outlook towards situations. This way, you can remain better informed about things you do on an everyday basis.
- Remember What You Hear
Have you ever seen people being appreciated for being a good listener? It is said that good listeners are often quick learners. Well, it is true. This is because; listening to something intently makes you remember about it, even after a time lapse. On the contrary, if you are not focussed on something being told, you will almost not remember anything the very next minute. Repeating what was said over and again in your mind will further help you remember those better.
You can test yourself, if you do not believe us. Ask your friend to speak with you, but do not pay attention to what he/she says. Ask your friend now to enquire about what was spoken, and you will see that you hardly remember anything. Repeat this activity, with the difference that this time, you hear every word he/she says and actually put an effort to understand what is being said. You will notice that your memory power has improved and you have learned new things that you would not know, if not for a listening ear.
To Conclude
Brain exercises like the ones mentioned above are the most suitable to help you with learning skills and defending against odds in life. At times, these activities may seem to not work for you, but that could be because of stress, lack of rest, or other disturbances. So do not give up, but keep practicing the mentioned activities to improve your learning capacity.
