Mental Self focuses on the intellectual aspects of the self, categorized into Cognition, Memory, and Intelligence; and The Mechanism of Human Learning.
Cognition, Memory, and Intelligence
We are born with innate capabilities that gives us power to deal with various situations with different settings. From the day the we were born in this world, we already have our senses to make reactions and reflexes and as we grow up, we further develop our senses until the time we were capable of self-consciously using our memory and intelligence. As we grow older, we begin to observe our surroundings, analyze data and information, create our own choices, and have proper behaviors depending on situations we're dealing with.
Cognition is the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses. It is an important process of gaining knowledge and having deeper comprehension of things. Memory by definition is the faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information. It is important in storing knowledge you learned, it is important in processing and comprehending information, memory makes you more like of a human because it lets you feel emotions from your memories. Intelligence is the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills. Intelligence has multiple dimensions and it is part of one's personility. Basically these three are the process of Learning/Comprehending, Remembering and the Applying. It gives essence to one another, wherein to be able to fully used one's learning up to it's maximum potential, it must be remembered and stored in the memory, to be acquired as part of one's skill sets and apply it to become useful not only for himself/herself but also for other people.
Intelligence has been defined in number of ways. It is also referred to as someone's capacity for logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, planning, creativity and problem-solving. It's real essence is the application of knowledge. Mutiple intelligence are Verbal-linguistic, Logical-mathematical, Visual-spatial, Musical, Naturalistic, Bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal and intrapersonal. These multiple intelligences are rare to be all acquired by a single person, everyone has different sets of multiple intelligence, everyone has their own top 3 multiple intelligence which focuses on their strengths and capabilities.
I have learned in this dimension of self that cognitive, memory and intelligence were very important to sustain a great development in oneself. It is also important to connect into the world, similar skill sets from different people creates friendships and mutual understandings, which could lead to having deeper bonds towards one another, but meeting someone with different skill sets is also important in terms of exchanging of skills and becoming more invulnerable together, with the different skill sets within a group of people, maximizing each skills is essential in order to make the best outcome for what they do. Maximizing skill sets makes people do things easier, because when you have connections with people who have different skill sets than yours then you would only focus on doing things you're good at and trust them fully to do things they're great at, with that you can balance the division of labors and produce a more wonderful output.
Differences makes people Unique, and Uniqueness makes them wonderful, communication between two unique people is great, just imagine how would it change the world if everyone's uniqueness creates unique interconnectedness with one another. With this quotation in mind, you will have more space for comprehension and will prevent you from getting mad when you encounter arguments with different people's perpectives, but rather consider their situation and try to understand them.
Shooting Stars by Owl City
The mechanism of Human Learning
Learning is defined as a relatively permanent change in a person’s knowledge or behavior as a result of experience. Learning is the acquisition of knowledge or skills through experience, study, or by being taught. There are different ways of learning, people have different abilities and their way of learning differs, some may easily learning from hearing and listening, some needs visuals, some needs actualy trial of doing things while some needs all of them in order to learn effectively.
Some factors that greatly influences one's learnings are motivation, readiness and will power, ability of the learner, level of aspiration and achievement, attention, general health condition of the learner, maturation of the learner, methods of learning, over learning, knowledge of results as feedbacks, and good physical atmosphere. There were a lot of things to consider when it comes to learning that's why learning is a lifetime process. No matter how old or how young you are, you will always learn new things that you haven't learn before, learning is a long-term process and it also takes a long time to apply it.
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its abilit to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." this quotation is very effective in describing the differences in ways of learning of people, everyone has their own limitations, everyone had their ups and downs. Some people can learn things easily while some needs more time in order to take in the learnings, but it doesn't mean that the one who took longer time in learning is stupid.
You can learn things wherever you go, you can learn things your own way, or you can also adapt other learning ways that is easier for you to do. Life is full of yet to be discovered things, there were a lot of unknown in this world. I learned that learning is a really important processing part of living, the more you live, the more you learn things, that's why there are people who were so obsessed with knowledge that they were seeking for immortality just to discover things beneath. A person's lifetime will never be enough to discover everything inside this world, how more about what's outside the world. That's why I believe that while you're still alive, you focus on learning the things that picks your interest, because for me, it is easier to learn things if you're interested and wanted to learn about it.
Do not give up on learning, keep struggling, you'll never know how near you are to your goal so don't stop. Keep aiming, and don't get tired because learning is an important part of our lives and it is the fundamental foundation towards discoveries of the unknown.
"Fill the darkest night, with a brilliant light,
'Cause it's time for you to shine
Brighter than a shooting star, so shine no matter where you are, tonight"
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