The secret to being able to study is to establish a study habit. It is important to continue doing basic things every day, even if it is just a little at a time. What you learn will be forgotten. It is also important to develop the habit of making what you learned that day your own, assuming that you will forget. The secret to studying is to do the same thing every day, at the same time, and in the same place. If you can study without using your brain, but your body starts to move before your brain does, it is considered to have become a habit.
Furthermore, conveying what you have learned to someone is an effective study method. Teaching someone what you have been taught (input) efficiently organizes the knowledge you have memorized. And teaching someone makes your memory more solid. Teaching someone about what you have been taught without any time in between organizes the knowledge and solidifies your memory. If you continue to input and output knowledge every day, you can accumulate knowledge. There are times when the knowledge you have accumulated interferes with each other and you suddenly understand. This sudden understanding is called a paradigm change. In most cases, after a paradigm change, your learning ability improves rapidly and your grades improve. The joy of learning new things and being able to do things you couldn’t do before makes you more positive. Gaining the feeling that you can do something is an incredibly important experience.
One of the characteristics of highly motivated children is that their parents are good at encouraging them. This means being good at setting goals. Then, parents should make the goals and daily results that their children have set visible. Once the goals are visualized, the next step is to subtly show them the progress of their efforts. The feeling that they are “improving more than before” is what motivates them. Parents provide a learning environment that their children can work hard toward their goals. Children’s motivation is cultivated in a fun and positive parent-child relationship. Even at school, if teachers can effectively present goals and visualize the learning process, children will enjoy studying and be able to concentrate on their studies.
