motivation_booklet_how_we_learn.pdf

By Bob Webb

Captain Bob Webb

220 Ibis Lane

Goose Creek, SC 29445

(843) 764-3280

www.motivation-tools.com

June 2007 edition

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ABOUT BOB WEBB

Bob was raised in Summit, New Jersey. His school years was a disaster and walked away from the

formal education system at the age of 16. His super achievement skills were achieved through self‐

education techniques, skills he continues to use today. He says, "The ability to educate myself made

it possible to break through society imposed barriers and be the person I dreamed of being."

At 17, he worked on an automotive assembly line in Michigan, at 18 he worked for the FE gold

mining company in Fairbanks, Alaska. In 1954, at the age of 19, he joined the Marine Corps in

Kodiak, Alaska. Six months later, in Japan, his machinist career started when he was put in charge of

the 3 rd Engineering Division machine shop. (Details in article "How to Make Dreams Come True",

found at his website.) In 1963, Bob started his employment as machinist with the Panama Canal

Company, Panama. In 1968, the company sent him to hard‐hat diving school, after which, he

performed maintenance on the gates and valves at the Locks Division. In 1970, he worked as

machinist for the Navy Undersea Research and Development Division in Kaneohe, Hawaii, helping

them develop their mammal warfare program. In 1973, Bob went back to the Panama Canal

Company and became preventive maintenance supervisor. He retired in 1988 as supervisor of the

computer department. In Guam, in 1990, he received his Coast Guard Captain's licensed for tall

ships and became dive boat captain. His current project is promoting motivation techniques for at‐

risk youth in the maritime world. He is now living in Goose Creek, South Carolina, USA.

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TURNING INFORMATION INTO KNOWLEDGE

Understanding the ability to turn information into knowledge is extremely complex. The charts that

follow may help you understand why some people comprehend information easy while others find

it almost impossible. With a visual picture it becomes clear the connection between learning

environments and natural talent. Discovering your natural talent is essential to selecting a

professional skill. Employers are looking for employees, whose natural talent is in harmony with

the assigned tasks. These charts can help students and employers understand the link between

natural talents and needed skills.

LEARNING PERSONALITY

Every individual not only has a social personality that is different from everyone else, each of us has

a learning personality that is different from everyone else. Our learning personality is the

combination of natural talent, personal interest, current opportunity, social environment, character,

motivation and how the brain processes information.

People, whose learning personality is in harmony with their social environment, are considered

highly intelligent. People, whose learning personality is out of harmony with their social

environment, are considered to have low intelligence. Everyone wants to be considered intelligent

and will seek social environments that will give them that feeling. This is why some strive to be a

CEO while others accept a self‐destructive (criminal) lifestyle.

This document uses the term “Learning Personality.” The Motivation Tool Chest website has

extensive articles on the topic.

INFORMATION SOURCES

Universal intelligence is the source of all creative thinking, which offers answers to a persistent

desire. Universal intelligence can be compared to the internet that sends out information to desktop

computers as requested. A desktop cannot hold the volume of information that is available on the

internet; it does not need to, because it’s not possible for a single user to use it. Super achievers

have learned how to acquire information from various sources. They have a love‐to‐learn that

motivates them to seek change. For others, their source of information is limited to what is already

discovered and recorded. They reject change and accept the way things are, they no longer have a

desire to learn.

USING THE CHART

The formal education is designed by intellectuals for intellectuals. This chart is designed to help

non‐intellectuals — people who are in conflict with the formal education system. In addition, it will

help employers’ select efficient employees, especially blue‐collar skills. The chart compares

academic and mechanical learning personalities, because they are opposite. As a rule, people who

have strong natural talent in one are weak in the other. The artistic personality represents other

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