We talked about two processes involved in learning yesterday which are RECEIVING AND ADAPTING. Today we would be talking on the last two which are ADOPTING AND APPLICATION.
3. ADOPTING
The next stage of think(that is sieving and sorting out the information you have received for comprehension), is adoption. This is about making decisions which now leads to the integration of the acquired information into specific areas of your life to effect improvement
Thinking must ultimately end in decision, because until you decide to do something with the information you have received and thought about it, it remains useless. When thinking is not tied to a decision, it becomes futile since the information cannot be integrated for mental development.
Integration means engrafting information in order to supply the missing part.
4. APPLICATION
Productivity answers only to application of knowledge. The evidence of learning is results. Until you get results, you cannot convince anybody that you have learned anything. You may have several certificates, but nobody will believe you if you have no results to prove their worth. That is why in some major organizations, promotion is awarded according to productivity, instead of paper qualifications. You cannot prove to the world that you are learning except you have proofs to show.
Writing of notes does not necessarily connote learning, but application with evident results does. There is a testimony of someone I know whom I consider a good learner. She got information that you do not pray to increase your money rather you trade with it. She thought about it at home and then began to trade with the sum of #980 that she had. Between February and July, she made a profit of #30000. That is about somebody who learnt a lesson. Another person perhaps wrote it in his notebook but didn't think about it, nor adopt it, so he could not apply it.
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