You must realize that the road to success is associated with the one of gaining knowledge , where you can’t be successful without having the knowledge that would lead you to success, this is the secret receipt to success and gaining knowledge would be the main ingredient in it.

Knowledge is power the more knowledge you have the more creative you will be the more chances you will have to be successful and happy.

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How can we gain the knowledge?

Do you know that we waste more than 1/3 of our age in sleeping and yearly we spend more than 900 hours stuck in our cars driving, and half of our time daily is wasted on you waiting in a bank, restaurant, etc…

So how can we gain knowledge and make the best use of our times in order to widen our horizon there are many sources and of course the main is reading, Experimentation and observation, People, Thinking and pondering, improving your skills.

People:
I think that the biggest and largest source of knowledge to any human being starts with people, since we are babies we get knowledge from our parents and specially our mums, then when we grow more the more people we meet who are a great source for knowledge to us.

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regimentation and Observation:
Experimentation is to try new things and observation is to pay attention to small and big details, by this way you can gain a huge amount of data and knowledge as you educate yourself by the trial and error method in which you try something and you gain certain information about that thing and you observe the results then you evaluate the whole experience and you gain a certain knowledge about that thing.

Thinking and pondering:
When learning new things you need to focus and concentrate so much, not just reading or thinking alone would lead you to gain knowledge but reading and thinking and pondering about what you learn and read by this way you will gain a tremendous amount of knowledge and data about the thing you learn.

Skills improvements:
The more skills you have the more knowledge you will gain to success, but most important than gaining new skills is investing some time to improve the skills you have that would increase your knowledge and therefore increasing you chances to success and living a happy life.

As a conclusion for that there are many ways to gain knowledge and more ways to use that knowledge in order to be more successful in our lives on the personal and professional levels all we need is organizing our time and thoughts in order to reach our targets and gain more knowledge in our lives and achieve more success.

if we came to defining the learning process we can summarize it in the following Learning is acquiring new knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, preferences or understanding, and may involve synthesizing different types of information. The ability to learn is possessed by humans, animals and some machines. Progress over time tends to follow learning curves.

so in order to learn all we need is to pay attention as the quote says “You learn something every day if you pay attention” Ray LeBlond

After knowing what is the learning process, we need to know how to tie this skill closely with success because in order to successes you need to be a good learner, in matter of learning skills, values or even gaining different knowledge. This is what makes success comes your way.

As we noted in the title of this post that the third key to success is learning and the first step to be a good learner is being a good listener, have you ever wondered why we have two ears but one mouth well the meaning after this is to teach yourself to be a good listener, that’s why you have two ears to listen more than to talk which is the corner stone of the learning process along with being motivated to learn more and know and master new skills, talents , and values.

As Chip Bell said “Effective questioning brings insight, which fuels curiosity, which cultivates wisdom”
if you read this quote many times you will understand how the learning process goes, at first you start by building an insight of the thing that you want to learn by questioning this thing, remember that when you wonder about something you are building a module of that thing inside your head that would motivate you to learn more and master it in your head by discovering more about it, this thing could be ( language, tool, instrument, etc…) and all this discovering feeds your curiosity toward learning more which enhance the learning curve inside you, which cultivate and generate wisdom about this knowledge and all these factors work toward firing the passion for learning and generating motivation for your success.

Types of learning:

1- Simple non-associative learning

Sensitization :
is an example of non-associative learning in which the progressive amplification of a response follows repeated administrations of a stimulus (Bell et al., 1995). An everyday example of this mechanism is the repeated tonic stimulation of peripheral nerves that will occur if a person rubs his arm continuously. After a while, this stimulation will create a warm sensation that will eventually turn painful. The pain is the result of the progressively amplified synaptic response of the peripheral nerves warning the person that the stimulation is harmful. Sensitization is thought to underlie both adaptive as well as maladaptive learning processes in the organism. (Wikipedia)

Habituation:
is an example of non-associative learning in which there is a progressive diminution of behavioral response probability with repetition of a stimulus, in simple words this type of learning happens when learning something and this thing becomes a habit that makes you a learn a certain behavior or knowledge.

2- Associative learning

Classical conditioning:
which is the typical case of introducing a consequences that happened as a result of doing a certain action which generates in your brain the experience learned from doing such an action.

Operant conditioning:
Operant conditioning is the use of consequences to modify the occurrence and form of behavior. Operant conditioning is distinguished from Pavlovian conditioning in that operant conditioning deals with the modification of voluntary behavior. Discrimination learning is a major form of operant conditioning. One form of it is called Errorless learning.(Wikipedia )

3- Observational learning :

occurs by playing, having fun, Enculturation, Multimedia learning, Rote learning, and in my opinion that this is an very effective way of learning because this comes by observing and learning, and this is not all there are so many ways and methodologies of learning and it does not matter which way you follow the most important thing is to make this process is an eternal motive for you to achieve success in your life and this would be it for the third key of success .

Lets agree on something that success will never come to you if you don’t try to get it and work hard for it, it’s the simple rule of life (In doing what we ought we deserve no praise), once we have put this in front of us success will be no problem but there are simple steps that will help us attract success to us.
Before I tell you these steps to attract success to your way you have to have the ability to change your perspective to life if you are from the next type of people we have talked about above, and also to be able to commit to these steps and apply it in everything in your life, it all comes from you and the energy needed to make success happens comes from within you.
So let’s get motivated and ATTRACT success to your life
The First Step is Believe
Believe in yourself and believe in your capabilities, inside each one of us a hidden power called motivation and this power will never fade as long as it’s fed by the believe, this believe comes from inside of you, you have to believe in God first and whenever you worked hard he will reward you with success in your life this is the 1st thing you have to believe in.
Believe then in yourself that you can achieve whatever you dreams are as long as you work hard for it believe that you can awaken the sleeping giant inside of you called motivation, always be motivated by your believe in your talents and capabilities and powers this will make you in a better position in life to achieve the success you are looking for only then your whole perspective to life will change and you will be moved from the second type of people who dreams about success but not able to achieve it to people who are very powerful to create new ideas and be able to achieve it in reality.
Success is just a dream that needs to come to reality by our efforts.
The Second Step is Affirmation
Always talk to yourself of course not when you are in the middle of a restaurant , seriously with this in your mind always tell yourself that (I can do it , I’m strong enough to do this, I’m capable of achieving this goal and others) use the power of affirmation to motivate yourself and keep the motivation inside you burning.
Use this step whenever you need to help you get motivated because as we said before that the most powerful and lasting type of motivation is the inner motivation that comes from within you, so whenever you feel some lack of motivation or energy or power praise yourself and tell yourself you can do it and encourage yourself to raise up and stop the negative thinking, and get back on track.
The Third Step is Target Setting
Setting goals in our lives is the most important step that we should always consider and take, it’s like drawing your future and planning it, setting goals in not easy and it might be the hardest step of all because in this step you need to answer many important, vital questions that would determine your destination in life some of these questions might be what do I want to do with my life? , what is my dream? , what is my targeted goal in the next phase in my life? These are samples of the questions that you might ask yourself in order to determine what your goal is in your life and it could be as simple as losing weight, finishing a book, learning a new thing.
Whatever you’re thinking big or small, you should always have a goal in your life and always start with small achievable goals that would encourage you to achieve the bigger, harder ones.
At the end success is not a hard formula to be done but the most important part in it lies in you, believe in God and in yourself, confirm to yourself that you can do it and convince yourself with this, then set your goal and then success will be attracted to you and it will be your best friend for the rest of your life.

before talking about success and motivation I had to start with this quote because if you agree with me without motivation we don’t feel like doing anything , motivation is the inner power that drives humans to achieve whatever they desire and not only achieve it but successes in their lives.

this is motivation in its simplest form when you feel motivated you love what you do and feel more passionate for this and this helps you generate energy and power within you and this helps accelerate your performance unlike when you are unmotivated you lack the energy and passion and power to achieve your goals and reach success and this therefore makes you focus more on what went wrong and the faults in your performance which leads to poor performance and bad results.

in the dictionary the motivation is a desire to achieve a goal, combined with the energy to work towards that goal, for example when a scientist is motivated he can come up with new inventions whether new technologies or new cures for deadly diseases or when a student is motivated have a desire to undertake his study and complete the exams and finish their courses, motivations comes from a Latin word “motere” which means “to move”.

There are three types of motivation are :

1. survaival motivation
2. external motvtion
3. internal motivation

Survival motivation pushes you to fulfill necessary needs such as food , air and water if any of those is absent a primary power fires neural centers in your brain which makes you physically aroused and motivated to do whatever it takes you to fulfill this need only and only if this need is satisfied then he body goes to its natural status let me give you an example if someone is trapped in a room with no air he will do whatever it takes him to get air and survive, its as simple as this when your existence is threatened you will do the impossible to survive like if you are in the woods and you ran in to a lion you would run as fast as your legs can do to survive.

External motivation this type of motivation comes from the outside world let me ask you a question if your boss comes and thank you for an ordinary job you have done would not that affect you and motivate you to do much effort and do a better job, ok how about the opposite you bet it would it might even influence you for a long time unfortunately people rely so much on external motivation to feel they are appreciated from their bosses , friends and family , humans have the desire to be approved by others we want to be appreciated and people to think highly of us, but the problem with this type of motivation is that it fades away , you can’t get appreciation and approval from others all the times which drives us to the most powerful and lasting type of motivation which is the internal motivation.

Internal motivation with this type you are driven by the inner power within you to accomplish your goals and achieve them greatly, like for example there was a women with four children whose her husband has passed away and found herself responsible for her children and herself that situation has driven this women to take night courses and work for two shift job to support her family and now she has her own chain of restaurant.

internal motivation is the inner power that comes from within you , it’s the sleeping giant within you that is waiting to be awaken and as Ralph Waldo said that “what lies behind us and what lies before us is tiny matters compared to what lies within us”, this is applies so much on the law of attraction which means you attract what you believe in like for example if you believe that you can success and you have that power of motivation inside you that would attract success to you in everything you do, it’s all about what is inside you which means you have to strongly believe in yourself and always motivate yourself to achieve success and attract success to you.