Do you know how you learn? Do you know you improve the mental skills you rely upon every day to be a better learner, especially the ones that hold you back? Children that enter a kindergarten classroom unconsciously wave goodbye to their neurological diversity in order to embrace the factory approach to learning. We are taught in a classroom through a standardized approach that presumes we all learn the same way. In fact, we know we don't. As a result, people underperform unnecessarily and/or become dispassionate and insecure about learning. We need to start by understanding exactly how our brains are wired to process information (cognitive skills assessment) before we are all taught as if we were identical and interchangeable parts in a factory instead of the unique and complex human beings we are. We need to diminish our overreliance on drugs (such as stimulants for ADHD) to treat what are often symptoms of neurological differences or weak cognitive skills. Before we prescribe a drug, scar our self-esteem or narrow our future we need to understand how we learn. We then need to strengthen any weak areas so we can learn more effectively and realize our potential.
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