Pragmatic Thinking and Learning

Use Enhanced Learning Techniques

Now that we’ve established a good framework for deliberate learning, we need to look at learning itself. In the rest of this chapter, we’ll look at some specific techniques to help you learn faster and better. We’ll be looking at the following:

• Better ways to deliberately read and summarize written material

• Using mind maps to explore and find patterns and relationships

• Learning by teaching

Any one of these techniques, by itself, can be a great help. Taken together, they can turn you into an efficient learning machine. But everyone is different, and everyone’s best method of learning is different. As a result, you may find some of these techniques more effective than others—remember that one size never fits ...