From my
small age I loved to open things and understand what’s
there inside them and see what is inside them that makes them work differently.
It is said “an
officer cannot row a Boat like a Boat man" and that is what exactly
happened to me in the classroom .I started to involve myself in all sorts of creative
works and competitions that my school would conduct or look for solutions to
daily life problems that I would face. This made me more and more creative and
forced my brain start thinking of solutions practically and coming up with
different ideas visually .
But slowly I realized something different again! I
noticed that I was not able to pay attention continuously in a classroom and
understand almost anything in subjects like math.
I started
to ponder around this and analyse that why I am not able to do so. I started
writing down what was missing in myself that prevented me from performing well
in academics. I realized that I was unable to enjoy the process (“if you fall
in love with the process the results will follow").
Soon I started struggling even to understand basic
concepts in the classroom .For what people took 15 minutes to solve I would
take more than one and half hours!
Now I
really got serious I started praying to God, analyzing and understanding and
then realized that many times to explain things I would draw the structure and
the diagram to explain the people .This idea work very well as my friends could
see the image rather than depending on the text .I sometimes used this same
method in my previous classes to write a notes fast or connect an analogy which
would come into my mind which is similar to that concept.
So I started train to myself to draw
representing every sentence or a set of information onto a picture and drawing
it in my rough notebook and connecting all the parts to a single mega picture.
When it
came to a question answer I collected the main points of the answer and
converted each of the point into a picture combine all of them into a mega
picture.
click on the images to zoom
I found it
so interesting! I was able to remember the picture and was able to convert my
academics into fun.
As it was
something what I loved all my life!
Soon I
started Googling on the web trying to find more people like me and I was so
happy and so shocked to find people like me !This technique it was called sketch
noting. People used this method to take down notes during meetings to
understand things and to make the meeting content packed with fun, creativity
and information. So therefore I started taking down my class notes also
in form of small Doodles and pictures. Soon I could gather courage to approach
my loving teachers and share this technique with them. The best part was that
even though none of them were used to this technique or even knew much about
it, all of them encouraged me. Soon this technique was noticed by all of my
classmates (especially by the so called ‘weak students’).
Most of the
weak students started approaching me to ask and take help for question and answers in various subjects like Business
Studies, Economics and sometimes even concepts in subjects like Accounts to them
through pictures( most of the toppers in my class too loved this method and
encouraged me a lot but were more used to the usual method ).
It was then
when I realized that all are different and all need to learn in their own
different ways.
I started researching and spending more time
on the internet started coming to know something called theory of
multiple intelligence which was proposed by Paul Gardner in the history .He too said that there exist multiple intelligence among different people and so the people need to be taught or they take in the knowledge through their particular method.
It was then
that I realized there was some need for me to help people/students in school. I
decided to help students like me realize that they're not losers if they
couldn't score well in the exams they could easily convert
their passion into the academic learning sessions and make them creative and
interesting too.
I started
experimenting on this method more and more trying to optimize it and make it
more convenient and easily learn able for all the people with whom I would get
in contact I started writing on behind my book all the mistakes which I would
make how I could improve upon them.
So
immediately when I left for holidays from my hostel I felt like starting something
like a blog where I would share methods
and techniques with all the students and help them to get better in studies and
various works in life.
This method
was actually very famous among many businesses various countries but I
noticed that none of them actually concentrated on the schooling part of it. I
felt that why not create a website all a blog where I could be of some help to
students like us.
Thank you for reading.
:)
(Seriously its awesome resource !)
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