Peak Learning

by Ronald Gross

Book Overview

Shows how to find a personal learning style and use it to enhance one's potential, break through personal learning blocks, and mobilize critical and creative powers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874776112
• ISBN13: 9780874776119
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: Tarcher
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.5" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

A must-have text for the adult learner

This book is essential for any adult returning to school or to learning. Gross discusses the reasons for continuing our learning as well as the ways we can maximize our learning potential.Gross begins be talking about the necessity and science of learning. At first, I thought this was not essential to book, but it does provide a rationale for learning as well as help the reader build confidence in his or her ability to learn as an adult. This had a positive effect on students in my class.Throughout the book are many exercises readers can use to discover what kind of learners they are, such as top-down or bottom-up. This allows them to structure their study more effectively and to recognize the different pitfalls that could discourage them. Knowing that other people have the same fears and abilities can be emboldening.I would highly recommend this to all adults. To keep up in this economy and workplace, you need to continue learning. This book can help you do this effectively.

You won't believe how much...and how well...you can learn!

You won't believe how MUCH you can learn, and how WELL you can learn, about absolutely anything! And how that learning has a direct effect on what you EARN! My copy of the orignal Peak Learning is the most battered book I own...loaded with bookmarks and notes in the margins and highlighting. The new chapters in this updated version are great...givng new and current information about what drives business and careers. Don't just read the book, but try the suggestions in it.

A life-centering guide for lifelong learning.

For decades Ronald Gross has been bearing the torch for lifelong learning with unrelenting enthusiasm. I'll never forget many years ago discovering the first edition of his book, "The Independent Scholar's Handbook." It gave me the confidence I needed at the time to take self-education seriously. What I would have given to have had a book like "Peak Learning" when I began my journey of lifelong learning.My philosophy of autodidactic learning is to think of an education not as something you get but as something you take. The new edition of "Peak Learning" shows you how to proceed on such a journey for yourself. Ronald Gross gives practical advice that seems like common sense, except that traditional education in America is far too focused on predetermined outcomes and spoon-fed knowledge. Many people who think themselves to be highly educated have little sense of their own strengths and learning styles. The result is a life of frustration and often a haunting feeling of inadequacy because they have never truly experienced the exhilaration of discovery based upon quenching their own thirst for knowledge.In "Peak Learning," Ronald Gross shows you how to gain the kind of confidence that will allow you to take charge of your education and dramatically change your life. Highly recommended

Peak Learning Key for the Information Age

Ronald Gross is a master teacher who understands the fundamental value of learning. Peak Learning offers the building blocks to a lifelong learning adventure. I recommend this book for anyone looking to make order out of the chaos caused by the information overload of our times.

This book taught me a lot about how I think.

Ronald Gross clearly knows what he is writing about, and has the ability to write about it in ways that anyone can understand. I learned more about the way I and others learn from this book than in numerous psychology classes. But the one thing that I got from this book is an enthusiasm for learning. The basic premise being that you do not have to go to university to get a degree, but rather that you have the choice of what and how you will learn. Your University of the World, makes you just as educated as any degree. This jewel should be embraced by everyone. My only disappointment with this book is that it is of uneven quality. Some of the explanations and exercises are excellent insights into the human mind. Others appear to be withour merit and without explanation.