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to review their effectiveness and check how they work for you.
Ideally, you need to reflect at two levels: on an ongoing basis
and after each learning experience. As I have stressed already, how
you reflect is very much a matter of personal style and taste.

Study the list of skills below. They are the ones at the heart of your intelligence.
How confident are you about doing them?

Description Very confident Confident Need to practice
Identifying how much
of your learning is
solitary and how
much collaborative
Choosing to learn
online
Using media or
books about learning
Planning to use a
particular medium
and then trying it
out
Consciously model-
ing or imitating
others
Distinguishing
between formal and
informal learning
experiences

Keeping a written
record of your
learning
Practicing or
strengthening under-
utilized styles
Identifying how much
of your learning is
passive versus active
Finding out how
other people learn
Breaking learning
into a series of
“hows”