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    Learning Strategies

    published on Sun. Jan. 13th, '08 by Swami Atma

    Lately I have been doing quite a bit of reading about learning theory and the different strategies to learn better, faster, and easier. As yoga teachers I feel many of us can gain from gaining a better understanding of the process of learning.

    learning the first 80% of something new takes 20% of the effort. Seth Godin

    The No-depth Learning Strategy

    The quest for knowledge is universal. In our whole life we keep on learning and there are two ways to go about it: 1. learn for years one topic and gain great depth and 2. learn the basic foundations of many different fields and topics.

    For yoga I have been sticking to one path, one tradition and going to as much depth as possible but for other fields I have been taking advantage of the law stated in the quote above and explored a whole range of topics superficially but trying to extract their essence.

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    Modern Tools for Learning

    While books are still good to learn a number of things you can now get great information, practical and theoretical on many topics through online encyclopedias, regular web sites, blogs, and forums.

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