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Learning How to Learn by ajay@malhotra.ca using concepts from Barbara…
Learning How to Learn by
ajay@malhotra.ca
using concepts from Barbara Oakley's course on Coursera
Why do it right ?
Ace'ing Tests
What can go wrong?
Illusions of Competence
Stress
How to fix it?
Breathe deeply from stomach
Hard Start Jump to Easy. Let your diffused mode do the work
Shift your thinking
double check your answers using a big picture perspective
enough sleep the night before
Personal Growth & understanding
Where your dream life will take you
Contribute effectively to society
Happiness through understanding
Unlocking your potential
Where does it happen?
Hardware
amygdala
Hippocampus
Pre-frontal cortex
Working memory
Chemistry
Dopamine
Acetylcholine
Serotonin
What is learning?
Bound together by understanding
Ready for use consciously and subconciously
Chunks of information
Ready for further discovery / building on it further
Absorbed using Focused and Diffused modes
How to do it Right?
Eat your Frogs First ( use Pomodoro )
Use Recall
Test yourself
Chunk your problems
Space your repetition
Alternate different problem-solving techniques during your practice
Take breaks
Use explanatory questioning and simple analogies
Focus
Make a mental contrast
How to do it wrong
Passive rereading
Letting highlights overwhelm you
Merely glancing at a problem’s solution and thinking you know how to do it
Waiting until the last minute to study
Repeatedly solving problems of the same type that you already know how to solve
Letting study sessions with friends turn into chat sessions
Neglecting to read the textbook before you start working problems
Not checking with your instructors or classmates to clear up points of confusion
Thinking you can learn deeply when you are being constantly distracted
Not getting enough sleep