Toni Krasnic - How to Study with Mind Maps: The Concise Learning Method for Students and Lifelong Learners

shows you in a step-by-step manner how to become a more engaged, efficient, and effective learner

-Michael J. Gelb, author of How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci

teaches the students to transform information into meaningful knowledge

-Jerome Bruner, author of Culture of Education

gets right to the heart of learning how to learn and engaging your whole brain

-Dominic O'Brien, eight-time world memory champion and author of How to Develop a Brilliant Memory Week by Week

compendium of enormously helpful information on how to learn more successfully

-Dee Dickinson, author of Teaching and Learning Through Multiple Intelligence

helps students become more analytical and critical thinkers, enabling them to learn independently and meaningfully

-Bena Kallick, co-author of Learning and Leading with Habits of Mind

enables you to break free from depending on others to becoming a competent and independent learner.

-Douglas Fisher, author of Better Learning Through Structured Teaching

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To the thousands of students who have helped me develop, test, refine, put into practice, and spread the word about the Concise Learning method (CLM) explained in this book.

To my wife Lindita, my love and extraordinary partner in life and work.

To my kids, George and Julianna, my inspiration and joy, who remind me every day how important it is to be a lifelong learner.

To my family, for their encouragement and support throughout my life.

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Learning is about immersing yourself in the mystery of new information so you can explore it, discover it, understand it, apply it, and create new information for others and knowledge for yourself. Thats what makes learning such an exciting and fun adventure.

To be a successful learner, you must have some basic training on how to learn. You know youre on the right path when youre actively observing and discovering, asking and answering questions, thinking, understanding and retaining what youre learning, applying what youve learned, and, most importantly, feeling engaged and interested.

Every year, millions of students transition from high school to college. Often, these students find themselves overwhelmed by the amount of information they have to assimilate in college and stymied by the lack of guidance, something they were accustomed to receiving in high school.

The statistics are downright troubling.

• Of U.S. undergraduates who enroll at a four-year college seeking a degree, only 36 percent achieve this goal within four years. Fifty-eight percent obtain a bachelors degree within six years.
• The completion rate for students enrolling in two-year institutions is even more sobering, where only 38.4 percent of students had earned a degree six years later.

These findings demonstrate the urgent need for more effective learning where students are engaged, motivated, and empowered to learn. Will you be ready for college when the semester comes at you like a freight train?

Lets face it: schools tell you what to learn but not how to learn. Although the amount of information youre expected to learn has dramatically increased, youre left on your own to figure out how to learn, mostly through trial-and-error studying. Studying, however, is not the same as learning. Simply rereading the same material over and over again is not the answer. I wrote this book so students like you can learn how to learn.

Today, students are arriving at colleges unable to think through problems, learn fundamental subjects, and do well on basic exams. Its not that college subjects cannot be learned; its that students have never been taught how to learn. This is the missing step in our schools.

Concise Learning will teach you to master the art of learning. Thats right; learning is an art that you can master. Understand this: learning is more a function of process than aptitude. Its more about how you learn than how smart you are. This means that its up to you, not your genes, to determine how well you learn and the grades you get.