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Chapter 1. Principles of Self-Learning

When we receive information of any kind, it travels up the spinal cord toward the neural networks of the brain. The first part of the brain to get this information is the emotional center—before the analytical or interpretive parts.

American educator Francis P. Robinson developed a method meant to help students really get the most comprehension from the texts they’re assigned—and,

If you feel your explanations are long, rambling, or protracted, you may not have grasped the subject as well as you may have thought.

Second, you must train your eyes. After all, each eye has six muscles that control its movements. You must train your eyes in two ways: to move less and to look wider with peripheral vision.

Rather than performing a task to gain rewards or avoid punishment from someone else, a person experiencing intrinsic motivation does an activity for how it will enrich them on an intangible level. The rewards one gets in this framework are self-generated: pride, sense of accomplishment, enjoyment, rising to a challenge. These kinds of rewards, quit

Confidence. At the base of Kruger’s pyramid is the self-conviction that we can learn. There’s no way around this prerequisite, and brain chemistry has something to do with it.

To start, sit or stand and focus your vision straight ahead. Next stretch each hand out to the side like you used to do when pretending you were an airplane. Stick each thumb up toward the sky and hold that pose. Now, keeping your head straight, move your eyes to the right until you can see your thumb. If you can’t quite see it, just stretch your e