Dance in a year: Advice on how to learn

12 Jul

This video is from the website Dance in a Year. It documents one woman’s progress towards her learning goal.

I believe that adults need challenging learning goals to stay cognitively engaged. You don’t have to be interested in dancing to profit from this website. Anyone who harbors a learning goal will be helped by Karen’s advice. Here are some of her suggestions:

PRACTICE EVERY DAY

SET GOALS YOU CAN ACTUALLY CONTROL

BECOME YOUR OWN COACH

LEARN FROM YOUTUBE

All this accords very well with the psychology of learning. What are you waiting for?

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  1. “Practice something for 100 days” | peakmemory - December 21, 2013

    […] Back in July I blogged about the Dance in a Year website. I just revisited the site and found that it has expanded into a wonderful collection of videos of learning projects. The basic idea is to: […]

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