From the course: Strategies to Learn and Upskill More Effectively
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Remove distractions while learning
From the course: Strategies to Learn and Upskill More Effectively
Remove distractions while learning
- You start the course motivated and ready to learn but then a thought about an unsent email pops into your head. Surely one quick response won't make you lose focus. Years of multitasking has made you able to do several things at once, right? But then after the course, you don't see improvements in your learning. You find yourself falling back into your old mindset and thinking, "I'm just no good at learning." To really learn something, you must remove distractions. Remember, before you can learn something, you have to first encode it, which requires attention and your mind can trick you into thinking you're paying more attention than you really are. But the reality is, when distractions are around, you're often off task much more than you think you are. In one study, researchers found that during a lecture, people were off task 42% of the time. That's a lot of missed content. But what's even more striking…
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