Chapter-4: The Learning Process
Outline of Article:
- Introduction
- Outline of the Learning Process
- The First Phase of the Learning Process
- Thank you
Introduction
To place more emphasis on the strict order of the entire learning process, I present an outline of the learning process within four phases. Afterwards, I address each phase in greater detail.
Although there is an emphasis that is needed here. The life blood of the learning process and its four phases is pumped by the second phase of the learning process. Yes, that’s correct, the second phase of the learning process is the vital core, or heart, of the entire four phase learning process.
Of course, all other phases of the learning process are very important too; but the other phases serve only to support the second phase in a very strict and deliberate manner.
Outline of the Four Phases of the Learning Process
1. Produce the Required Factors for Learning to Occur.
2. Practice The Eight Actions of Learning.
3. Keep the Reward-Recuperative Phase of Learning, Third.
4. Take a Break, and then Repeat the Phases as needed.
At present, the discussion focuses on the most vital process that allows studying and adaptation to flourish in life: The Learning Process. Unfortunately for all, there is no short cut to studying. There is no royal road to learning and to adaptation. This is because learning is an integral part of evolution.
In finer detail, learning happens because there is an honest need, a desperate want or a desire to adapt; and, these truths of discomfort create the meaning and purpose to adapt, to grow and to invoke intentional evolution within oneself.
As such, when a person is focused on learning, they are focused on an evolutionary process that has existed for billions of years. And, at present, for human beings, there are four phases that support this learning process from evolution.
The First Phase:
The first phase of the learning process is to produce the required factors for learning to occur.
This means that each individual is solely responsible for the two factors of equation-1, which was introduced in Chapter-2, recall: 
At each phase of the learning process, a person’s responsibility extends to creating the motivation, “M”, and the deliberate active searching, “a”, needed to produce all learning, β.
A vital concept needs to be clarified at this point.
Motivation has no dependence on how good one feels. Furthermore, motivation does not depend on feelings of being confident, happy, sad, excited or energetic. In other words, to produce motivation means to make movement by choice—how or why you feel a certain way is completely irrelevant. All that is required is for a person to actively choose to move (or not to move) in reality.
However, a natural outcome of this first-phase will be a decline in motivation over time, which means a need for mental and physical rest. Remember, the factor of willpower is not infinite for a human being. Hence, willpower and motivation will exhaust with use. Therefore, any extended time period spent in phase one will need to be structured within time constraints and recuperation. Otherwise, learning will suffer and may actually be counterproductive.
Thank You
I appreciate your time in reading my blog post. Next Monday I will upload the next part of Chapter-4: The Learning Process, from my self-development book, How Does Studying Work?
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