Learning is a Learned Behavior

Learning is a Learned Behavior

Many people mistakenly believe that learning(the ability to learn) is a matter of intelligence. For them, Learning is just an immutable trait like eye color, hair color or just a luck of a genetic draw. That simply indulges me to a contradiction that people are born Learners. So why bother getting better at it? But we all respond to certain behaviors under different conditions. Some of these are innate and some are learned.

Learned Behavior

The main thing to remember in such dilemma is that behavior is the response to a stimulus. Basically Learned behaviors are changes during one's(life-long learners) lifetime. Behaviorism, also known as behavioral psychology, is theory of Learning based on idea that all behaviors are acquired through conditioning and experimentation. And conditioning occurs through interaction with environment. Learned behavior or a change in behavior occurs due to result of life experience which I presume is easily understandable my readers mainly comprising of inspired life-long learners. This change in behavior includes,

• habituation
• sensitization
• classical conditioning
• operand conditioning
• observational learning
• insight learning

How Learning Indulges with Behaviorism

Some people do not think about developing the area of mastery without tending to approach the topic of Learning itself. They use phrases like, "practice makes perfection", without even considering proper learning strategy at play. I personally think that its a remarkably ill-defined expression because I have thought about it literally. Does practice means repeating the same skill again and again? Should practice be hard or fun?
A growing body of research is implying that Learners are made, not born. Through deliberate use of  skills and dedication, we can improve our learning strategies in other word we can improve our learned behaviorism.

Extraordinary Research Work

 Learning strategies can be more important than raw smarts when it comes to gaining expertise. A well-defined research done by Marcel Veeman has deployed that people who closely track their thinking will outscore individuals with high IQ when it comes to Learning something new or understanding the non-understandable. They are 15 points more innate and involved in Learning than normal people. Now a question is put forward by our intellects that what can be done to attain such intelligence. Well a and intrinsic way to do that is to,

1. Organizing your Goals

In order to develop an area of expertise, we have to organize our goals for success which are to be achieved in future aside from our personal contradictions. A targeted approach to Learning helps to cope with upcoming challenges. Following are associated with self commitment such as, Am I good enough?
What if I'm wrong? Isn't there something I'd rather be doing than this?
Some objectives have been added here SMARTly,

• Specific
• Measurable
• Attainable
• Result Focused
• Time Focused

Now sufficiently measurable goals are,

1. Skill Acquisition
2.  Knowledge Acquisition
3. Personal Goals
4. Professional Goals
5. Career Knowledge
6.  Result Orientation

While some self-carpeting is normal, these sort of negative emotions can quickly rob us out of ability to Learn something new. Plus we are more committed if we develop a plan with clear objectives. The research points discussed above are over-whelming at this point. Simply by setting targets, people can manage their skills more easily and effectively.

2. Thinking about Thinking

The process of thinking about one's own thinking is often called meta cognition. Broadly speaking, its the process of becoming more instinctive and thinking about what can be thought. Its basically asking oneself about where the hell do I get these ideas? Could I explain it to anyone? Should I get more background knowledge? 

This here comes to experts more effectively than trainees. They often think about how the problem got busted in first place. Do I have good sense of whether this problem seems more reasonable to ones answered before? At the end it all turns out to be that leave it to the experts. They don't push
themselves to think about thinking.

3. Reflect your Learning 

There is necessarily something of contradiction in Learning. It turns out to be quite habitual to let go of learning for Life-long Learning. Come on fellows, this here is not a joke for Learning should be our part and parcel for intimidate success. If a problem gets you, get into a discussion with a colleague or read a manual related to your problem which will surely wash away the argument out of further involvements. 

In short, beneficial Learning froms reflection of whats already done. Also sometimes it only takes a quite and when I say quite I mean a moment of introspection in solitude. Now get ready for whats coming at you....

Ready? Sleep is also a fascinating example in such stance. WHAAAAT...

Well reader, its possible that our brain tidies up our knowledge while we are napping. A recent study has shown that a good shut eye can surely reduce our practice time to 50%. 

Now the good news for you my reader is that,                                                                                                                "Learning has been proved as a Learned Behavior."

By deliberately organizing your Learning Goals, Thinking about Thinking and Learning on Opportune Times you can become a better study too.

Your Opinion

Now when that's all over with, I hope you have enjoyed reading this article. But I would love to know how Learning has changed your behavior for others. I as an optimist believe that Learning changes a person thoroughly. This here is a platform for dear readers to share their life story or success story. Your opinion matters the most. Your interest and constant appreciation motivates me to do much more.

Author and Publisher,
Raja Dawood.