Jemma Spike

Third question, think back now to your school or uni days if you are not still in those places.

What kind of classes felt easiest to stay engaged in even when the content wasn't that interesting?

That's another clue.

And finally, if you had unlimited time to learn something purely for enjoyment, what would that learning environment look like?

How would you want to learn about the thing you are choosing to learn about?

Now the thing to know, our style isn't always consistent and there's not just one for you.

Like there's often quite a few.

Or as in like they're interchangeable.

I feel like I've been giving the impression there's like one specific one.

You can have multiple, and everybody can in some way learn through each of those things.

There was a recent University of Michigan article that called into question the legitimacy of learning styles altogether, because the idea that we can only learn in one way is kind of preposterous, but the psychology does provide heaps of evidence for this fact.

When you enjoy the methods you are using to learn, you engage more, you absorb more, therefore you develop an enjoyable method for studying and enjoy the studying in itself.

Even if it looks weird, even if you feel like nobody understands it, having a method that relates to you personally and that you enjoy is always going to be more effective than a traditional method that bores you or doesn't interest you.

This kind of brings me to my next tip, which is use unconventional ways of learning because I guess the more novel, the more memorable and the more likely you are to integrate the information.

The one I loved the most, which I'm now thinking about and I'm realizing this has a lot to say about me, but I used to record my notes as a voice note on my laptop and

And I would convert it into an MP3 file for my phone so I could listen to the concepts as a podcast.

How I did not realize this was going to be my career, I do not know.

I cannot tell you.

That was obviously a sign.

But that was really effective for me.