Learning New Skills, Knowing And Knowledge

By George Napoli

We can not be very productive at learning new skill sets or topics, with out knowing the how’s to learning, as well as the basics of knowing, and the basics of knowledge and how these terms differ.

Would you like to be more successful in your career, become a better thinker, and produce better ideas to help move your company forward while you maximize your income? To grow and change your ways, you have to change your thinking. One of the better ways to enhance your thinking is to study new thinking skills. But, you can not be real effective at studying new skills, if you do not understand how we learn, the 3 components of knowing, and the 3 components of knowledge.

Learning new skills can be complicated. There is plenty of sophisticated theory out there. However, the essence of how we learn takes all the science and theory out of learning, and reduces it to some pretty straight forward methods. I’ve included the “how we learn” information here. This information is very enlightening and teaches us what is important to both learning and memory recall.

The premise of how we learn and what we remember is broken down as follows- ten percent of what we READ, twenty percent is AUDIO, thirty percent is VISUAL, fifty percent is a combination of what we HEAR and SEE, seventy percent of what is TALKED ABOUT with others, eighty percent of what is PERSONALLY EXPERIENCED, ninety-five percent when we TRAIN others.

What do we learn from this? The best way to learn new skills is to start by reading about the skill or subject. Next step is watching others use the skill. That supports what you read, and discussing your findings with others that share your same passion helps to lock it into memory. These steps give you a solid foundation to expand your learning new skills. Next step is to use what you have learned. However, the way your new skills and recall really grow, is to teach other what you have learned.

Now that we know how we learn, let’s take a look at what we “know”. The model for knowing has three components: 1. We know what we know. 2. We know what we don’t know. 3. We don’t know what we don’t know. Levels one and two are easy to understand; you either know something, or you don’t know. However, level three is very enlightening. Until you start learning and growing, you will never know what you don’t know, or what you really need to learn, in order to be effective and to perform at a higher level. It’s like the old clich- the more I learn and know, the more I realize I don’t know. Understanding how we learn and what knowing is all about, aids us to relate it to knowledge. The model for knowledge also has three components: 1. Application, 2. Understanding, 3. Basic Recall. The lowest level of learning and knowing is basic recall. If you have a great memory you can recall what you’ve learned. However, just being able to remember something does not mean you understand it.

Understanding is the next level up in having knowledge. In order to be effective at a new skill, you have to be able to understand it. Finally, at the top of the model is application. Using the knowledge is the highest level of the essence of knowledge and learning new skills.

Let’s combine how we learn subjects, knowledge and knowing all together. Once you understand how to learn a new skill or subject, it’s critical to pay attention to remembering, so you can recall what you’ve learned. The more attention you give a subject, the simpler it will be to recall the information.

Memory is also the lowest level in the knowledge model, so we will focus the balance of article on memory recall. Memory is the mental exercise of recalling subjects that you have learned or experienced. That basic explanation covers a sophisticated process that includes several parts of the brain and serves us in special ways.

Memory can be both short-term, and long-term. In short-term memory, your brain holds topics for a few seconds or longer: that’s how long it takes you to find a buddies number. Short term memory is delicate, and it is supposed to be that way. Otherwise, your mind would quickly be overloaded.

Long-term memory on the other hand, involves making an effort (conscious or unconscious) to retain, because is important to you. There are three types of memory: 1. Episodic memories, which are personal memories about experiences you’ve had at specific times. 2. Semantic memories (factual data not bound to time or place), which can be everything from the names of the stars to the color of your favorite outfit. 3. Procedural memory, involves skills and routines you perform so often that they don’t require conscious recall. See our website to see the model for knowing and knowledge, as well as more memory tips.

Now that you fully understand the substance of how to learn new skills, and the substance of knowing and knowledge, you can easily evaluate your existing expertise to discover exactly what fresh skill sets or even subject matter of interest may serve you the greatest. Thinking and creativity skill sets are a fantastic place to begin. Excellent thinkers produce excellent ideas. Thinking competencies allow a person maximum mental performance so that a person may obtain their true earnings potential.

George Napoli a self proclaimed [e]volutionary, thrives in an environment of change and creativity, and has a passion for training and coaching entrepreneurs. He has completed a major re-tooling initiative to enhance his skill sets and core competencies, and holds Masters Certificates in: Strategic Organizational Leadership (SLD), Human Resource Development (HRD), Business Analyst (BA) and Master Black Belt Six Sigma (CMBBSS), all from Villanova University. He’s trained hundreds of entrepreneurs and managers on a wide range of skill sets to improve performance, thinking and creativity in generating great ideas.

Want to find out more about why you need to learn new skills, then visit Gorge Napoli’s site to find the best new skills to improve yourself and your company.

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