Chapter-2: The Laws of Learning
Outline of Article:
- The Sixth Law of Learning
- Thank you
The Sixth Law of Learning
The sixth law of learning focuses on recognizing the limits or current strength levels of the learner. This concept of recognizing current limits is important for progress in anything, especially within the realm of studying and learning.
In particular, the limitation that I am referring to in this learning law is motivation. Granted, I have already provided definitions and various other details for motivation. Still, it is important to add some more detail.
More to the point, the critical detail is that all movement and choice in a person’s life is a result of some non-zero amount of motivation. In other words, every thought, belief and action of a person is directed by a person’s motivation.
Recall, that motivation is the product of value, expectation and willpower. The key factor to consider here is willpower. The best representation of how willpower works is to consider it as a type of muscle. Therefore, under normal and extensive use, a person’s willpower for any activity will decrease over time.
Naturally, once a person’s willpower is exhausted, their motivation for a given event, line of thinking or action will diminish. Of course, a person can ignore all forms of breaks, fight through most of their fatigue and continue marching onward towards a goal. But there is still an overall physical limit that must be acknowledged eventually. Perhaps, this is one reason why all human beings, after a certain amount of time, must sleep to some extent.
Therefore, in order to establish a healthier long-term habit of studying, learning or living, there needs to be an individual personal balance within each learner. (Note: balance need not be 50:50. Balance exists on a range, which means that a 70:30 or an 80:20 spilt could also be well within balance, work: recovery).
Above all, a person must be honest and respect their needs in order to provide adequate self-care. Otherwise, when motivation is exhausted to dangerous low levels during any given day, the body will develop its ways to protest repeated bouts of personal disrespect.
As a result, for balance in life, a person must be both deliberate in their choice of hard work and in their choice of healthy recuperation and repose. Meaning, a person is not random in the work or activities they participate in everyday life; and, nor must a person be random with the repose or reward-recuperative aspect after their hard work.
The sixth law of learning:
All learning sessions will fatigue the learner’s willpower, which will result in a diminishing in the production of motivation in learning. As a consequence, there must be a scheduled allotment of time invested in free-will recovery, such as with: rest, fun, sleep or other recuperative activities.
Thank You
I appreciate your time in reading my blog post. Next Monday I will upload the next part of Chapter-2: The Laws of Learning, from my self-development book, How Does Studying Work?
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