Hello everyone, this is Helen Huang @ Organizing, based in Beijing, China. In order to better learn and practice the YiXiaoNeng Time Management System, after finished publishing 100 Chinese articles, I decided to continue writing and publishing a daily English article in another 100 days based on the "YeWuBin Time Management 100 Episodes" audio program.?Today is the 135th day.

Today's topic is: How to learn like a scholar

In today's lesson, I will share with you a technique that will allow those of us who want to learn but are not academic scholars to really get the most out of a course. In other words, I will teach you how to learn like a scholar.

In order to keep up with the fast pace of this developing society, we must constantly learn and adapt. Just think only 30 short years ago, personal computers barely existed. And now we are using phones and washers to do 20 times what computers could do. Despite these advances and constant learning, why is it so difficult for us to internalize knowledge and then convert it into results?

In order to answer this question, today, I want to share with you the "Pyramid of Learning". Learning can be divided into two groups: active learning and passive learning.?The difference is how much knowledge is retained in our minds.

The first habit in the book "7 Habits of Highly Effective People" is to be "Proactive". You can only be efficient if you take control of your life rather than wait to let life happen to you.

Let's get specific: The pyramid of learning is divided into upper and lower parts.?The lower part is Passive learning. The passive learning contains: listening, reading, audio and video.?The transition between the upper part and lower part is called "Demonstration".?The upper part is Active learning, which is also the base or foundation of learning. It includes: discussing, practicing and teaching others.

In passive learning, we retain little information. In the active learning, we retain a lot of information.

? ? Just listen, and you will retain 5% of information after one month;

?? ?Just read, and you'll retain only 10% after one month;

?? ?Just read and listen, and you'll retain only 20% after one month;

?? ?See it often, and you'll retain only 30% after one month;

?? ?Discuss it often, and you'll retain 50% after one month;

?? ?Practice it often, and you'll retain 75% after one month;

?? ?Teach others the knowledge learned, and you'll retain 90% after one month!

So you see: the gap between active learning and passive learning is enormous.

From this day forward, you should realize that if the information is given only once and you learn it passively by reading or seeing it but not discussing it or teaching it, then the material must not be important and you will not retain that information.

So far you have been listening to the Ximalaya recordings for one month. At this point, many listeners have told me that even after listening to the program each day, and even feeling very rewarding, they still feel they have already heard many of these things before. He says he feels he is gaining nothing new and nothing is different in his life.

This is an important point: just listening to knowledge will not change you very much. The important thing is to convert your passive learning into active learning by practicing. If you only practice once, you will still not retain much information and value. Instead, we must practice continually and repeatedly! Listening, reading and seeing through audio and video are passive learning styles. There is little repetition in those methods.

When we see the demo, we begin to use our left and right brains. But when discussing with others, you can absorb a different perspective by learning from others. In this way, "Two heads are always better than one".

In the Yixiaoneng classroom courses, I will arrange you into groups to discuss each chapter, because discussion is a very important form of active learning. After the discussion, you will begin to choose those aspects that you wish to retain and then to practice them, which is equivalent to merely listening or viewing something dozens of times.

In the classroom courses, I will also let you practice a few different methods after I explain the theory. You will not always perform each method perfectly. There will be problems. And each time you have a problem, we will arrange time for you discuss the problem with others, explaining it in detail and then allowing you to practice again and again. This repetition and use of others will solidify the knowledge in your mind so you can use it later.?This is one of the reasons why Yixiaoneng time management course is recognized as the most practical and ground-breaking course in China.

Online, it is really impossible to give you kind of detailed counseling that will help you master these skills, but we can do this in the classroom courses.

Yixiaoneng preaches a very important concept: "The best student is able to teach others." This quote "The best student is able to teach others." comes from Charles Adi's book "The Thinker".?I can't agree with this view more. I think the purpose of learning is not to practice but to teach!?When we teach others, we need understand concepts at a much deeper level than if we simply learn it. We must adapt the concepts to different situations and teach it many different ways.?When we can gradually solve other peoples' problems through our own learning and research, we will be able to learn the concept at a much deeper level.

I have studied time management for more than ten years, first through reading and practicing on my own. In the first 7 years of my studies, my progress was very small, until later I opened the time management course in China. I traveled to more than 30 cities in China, and taught more than 300 courses. In each class, from each student, my knowledge of time management grew broader and deeper.

Our students are entrepreneurs, workplace managers, owners of private enterprises, executives of state-owned enterprises, housewives, lawyers, accountants, students and so on. Each personality and set of experiences leads to the difference in teaching demands, and my professional knowledge has grown exponentially by applying my knowledge to each of these problems!

When you are willing to help all the people around you improve their efficiency, then you improve of your own efficiency 10 times faster than by simply learning it passively! The more you share, the more you retain and grow!?The wisdom of Diamond Sutra, a book of Zen Buddhist teachings, also tells us:?Serving others is the way to success.

So remember the pyramid of learning and understand the massive differences in retention from passive to active learning. Remember that if you can teach others the concept, you will retain that knowledge so much more deeply than if you just listen or see that knowledge! Take the initiative to help others learn and teach others constantly and you'll be able to retain 90% of the information after one month.

That's all for the sharing today! Thank you being with me together today. Have a wonderful day!