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How_To_Get_Your_Online_Education_ _Part_Three
| How To Get Your Online Education -- Part Three
LEARNING THROUGH ACTION
Let's face it, you can read up and study a subject all you want,
and you can learn a great deal, but eventually you'll come to a
stand still in your learning process unless you start to APPLY
what you have learned.
Say you've been studying gardening. You may have the necessary
growing season, seed depth at planting, and preferred lighting
of every plant memorized, but that still won't net you any
tomatoes.
There comes a point when your learning will only advance when
you take ACTION!
When you start applying your education to actual doing, you
begin to develop another critical learning tool. Experience. The
immediate benefit, of course, is that you'll start to see the
things you've learned play out right in front of you. You won't
have to accept that learning on faith anymore. Through
experience, you gain a knowledge for yourself.
Experience undoubtedly leads to mistakes, but even they are
great for learning. Keep track of how you do things so that when
mistakes do happen you'll have some information ready to help
you analyze them. Often, analyzing what went wrong leads to new
ideas of how to make things work better.
Applied action also helps you to better understand the expert
advice you have sought out and are gaining from others. Now, as
you still seek that expert advice, you will be asking more
informed and detailed questions. This is the time having a
mentor or expert contact can be the most beneficial. Instead of
talking abstractly, you can now discuss specific situations and
details.
Learning by doing creates better reinforcement in the mind. It
adds the next dimension necessary to move yourself up from being
educated to being skilled.
Learning NEVER takes place on a straight line either. The more
you learn, the more you realize there are many more questions
yet unanswered. This leads you into more discussion, including
related topics, and also creates a better overall learning
experience in the long run.
The next part in this series gets into the more technical issues
of learning from yourself and creating new ideas that go beyond
what you have been taught.
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