How to learn something new in the age of reason
A Life / / December 19, 2019
Why is difficult for adults to learn
Reduced susceptibility
It is no secret that children and adolescents are given study more easily than adults. The thing is that their brains are more open to new experiences and knowledge. After all, the task of a young body, given by the nature, is precisely to develop and gain experience.
Period in a person's life, when it is easiest to assimilate information and develop skills, called the sensitive. The bad news: most likely, you have it already ended. For example, speech abilities are best developed in the age of 6, according to the renowned educator Maria Montessori.
Over time, the brain activity is reducedHow older people learn. And there is nothing we can do about it. Brain processes associated with storing large amounts of information and concentrating, do not stop, but slow down considerably.
Good news: it still does not prevent you from getting new skills.
Lack of motivation
There are not only biological, but also purely psychological reasons that an adult is more difficult to take up the unfamiliar business.
Sergei Ivanov, a psychologist.People aged psychologically there is a predisposition to dwell on the past as some ideal, which can be an example for everyone else. Often at the same time say: "In our time, we do like this."
By the time a person reaches a certain level of knowledge required him to life, gets a stable job... and he just lost causes learning something new. Education becomes an option - useful, but not vital.
Opposition to the environment
Often spoke in the wheel, we put our own relatives.
Certainly one of the reasons for the lack of stimulus to learning in adulthood - is the manifestation of age discrimination. She's thriving in part because a lot of people obediently follow such false settings: "too late to start," "We have not wanted", "Is now something has changed?".
Galina Lifshitz-Artemyev, writer, psychotherapist.
Fear of anything new
With age, can not only lose interest in self-developmentBut even appear the fear of it. Children and adolescents do not hesitate to ask questions and are not afraid to seem incompetent. Adults are accustomed to feel confident in their professional field. Going beyond its limits, they often feel stupid. And it provokes a desire to get back into the comfort zone.
Financial position
Sergei Ivanov, a psychologist.Most of the age of the population in Russia are discriminated against by the level of average earnings and therefore often refers to the lower strata of the social classes. It may also be a component of the unwillingness or inability to develop and train professionally.
Indeed, polls showRussians are struggling with a crisis. Russians, who because of the crisis was the lack of money, prefer to save rather than to seek second jobs or undergo retraining courses. Only about 16% of the respondents find ways to increase revenue rather than cutting costs.
Conclusion: The more people cramped in the media, the less he has opportunities to learn something new, especially if it is not directly related to income. If all the power go out, to feed themselves, no time to think about what you've dreamed of playing the violin.
How to overcome itself
Understand that it is not so bad
While adults tend to learn more slowly than children, this does not mean that they do uneducableHow older people learn. . Continuous knowledge baggage update itself helps keep the mind sharp. The more active a person learns, the easier it is given to him.
In adults, in this regard, even a slight advantage to the children: they are helped by the accumulated experience, knowledge and vocabulary, which is especially important, for example, in the study of languages. In addition, the age of reason, we learn something, because aware of the importance of this, not out of fear to get deuce. This adds motivation.
To understand why this is necessary
Before you take up the development of a new skill, you need to answer the question: "And actually, why?" If a good reason you do not come up with will be a great temptation to drop everything halfway. Here are some possible answers:
- I'll be more productive at work.
- This will allow me to have more fun on holiday.
- It saves me time and effort.
- This will give me a chance to find part time in the event of a crisis.
- This will improve my career prospects.
To begin
It may sound corny, but to begin to learn something new, you just need to decide on it. If you are anticipating that will be lazy, it is better not to choose an independent way of learning, and to enroll in courses for personal trainer or tutor. The presence of deadlines and obligations to a specific person add you self-discipline.
It is necessary to change their own settings. You never know who is saying what! You have to, you're interested - get down to business! With this attitude will succeed. Now, fortunately, there are a huge number of schools, which may receive additional training people of all ages (as well as any physical abilities). When expand the scope of his world, there is great incentive to live and be useful, improving the quality of life.
Galina Lifshitz-Artemyev, writer, psychotherapist.