30 tips in 30 days: #9.

As I continue to work on learning how to think in a healthy way, a valuable tool for me has been learning how I learn.

A Chinese proverb says, “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” The developer of reality therapy, Dr. William Glasser, says we learn 10 percent of what we read, 20 percent of what we hear, 30 percent of what we see, 50 percent of what we hear and see, 70 percent of what we discuss with others, 80 percent of what we experience, and 95 percent of what we teach others.

Educators identify three main learning styles: visual, auditory and kinesthetic. We learn by seeing, by hearing and by doing. Kinesthetic learning includes tactile learning. Touching the skin of a peach tells me more than seeing a peach ever could. I believe we learn by smell and taste, too, proven by how a baby explores the world.

Receiving information through our five physical senses (let alone our spiritual senses) is just the start of learning. As new “data” enters our neural network, we add it to our memory bank and integrate it into our mindmap of reality. We then can apply that knowledge to a specific task, like a pianist rehearsing a new composition.

If you wish to help create a quantum shift into global consciousness on our planet, please share with others this excerpt from my book: GLOBAL SENSE: The 2012 Edition: A spiritual handbook on the nature of society and how to change the world by changing ourselves

If you wish to read Global Sense, please visit Amazon.