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Pragmatic thinking and learning refactor your wetware - Coggle Diagram
Pragmatic thinking and learning refactor your wetware
Introduction
1.1. Again with the "Pragmatic"?
1.2. Consider the context
1.3. Everyone is talking about this stuff
1.4. Where we're going
Journey from novice to expert
This is your brain
Get in your right mind
Debug your mind
Learn deliberately
Gain experience
Manage focus
Beyond expertise
1.5. Grateful acknowledgments
Journey from novice to expert
2.1. Novices vs. experts
2.2. The five dreyfus model stages
Stage 1: Novices
Stage 2: Advanced Beginners
Stage 3: Competent
Stage 4: Proficient
Stage 5: Expert
2.3. Dreyfus at work: herding racehorses and racing sheep
The sad fact of skill distribution
2.4. Using the dreyfus model effectively
Accepting responsibility
Keeping expertise in practice
2.5. Beware the tool trap
2.6. Consider the context, again
2.7. Day-to-day dreyfus
Going forward
This is your brain
3.1. Your dual-CPU models
Memory and bus contention
3.2. Capture insight 24x7
3.3. Linear and rich characteristics
Characteristics of L-mode processing
Characteristics of R-mode processing
Why emphasize R-mode?
3.4. Rise of the R-mode
Design trumps features
Attractive works better
3.5. R-mode sees forest; L-mode sees trees
3.6. DIY brain surgery and neuroplasticity
Cortical competition
3.7. How do you get there?
Get in your right mind
4.1. Turn up the sensory input
4.2. Draw on the right side
Feel R-mode with a cognitive shift
4.3. Engage on R-mode to L-mode flow
Go climb a wall
The lozanov seance
Write drunk, revise sober
Pair programming
Meeting in metaphor
Juxtaposing frames of reference
System metaphor
So, this duck walks into a bar...
4.4. Harvest R-mode cues
You already know
The strange case of elias howe
Harvesting with image streaming
Harvesting with free-form jounaling
The morning pages technique
The "just write" technique
Harvesting by walking
4.5. Harvesting patterns
Patterns in code
Using a whack on the side of your head
The magic of an oracular whack
Shakespeare's brain teasers
4.6. Get it right
Debug your mind
5.1. Meet your cognitive biases
Failure to predict
"Rarely" doesen't mean "Never"
Defer closure
You can't recall
5.2. Recognize your generations affinity
All together now
The four archetypes
How this effects you
5.3. Codifying your personality tendencies
5.4. Exposing hardware bugs
Lizard logic
Monkey see, monkey do
Acting evolved
5.5. Now i don't know what to think
Testing yourself
Learn deliberately
6.1. What learning is...and isn't
6.2. Target SMART objectives
Specific
Measurable
Achievable
Relevant
Time-boxed
Objectives in a larger context
6.3. Create a pragmatic investment plan
PIP: have a concrete plan
PIP: diversity
PIP: active, not passive, investment
PIP: invest regularly (Dollar-cost averaging)
6.4. Use your primary learning mode
Multiple intelligences
Personality types
Beyond the defaults
6.5. Work together, study together
6.6. Use enhanced learning techniques
6.7. Read deliberately with SQ3R
The process
An example
6.8. Visualize insight with mind maps
Mind map enhancements
Try it
using mind maps with SQ3R
Exploratory mind maps
Collaborative mind maps
6.9. Harness the real power of documenting
6.10. Learn by teaching
6.11. Take it to the streets
Gain experience
7.1. Play in order to learn
The meaning of play
7.2. Leveraging existing knowledge
7.3. Embed failing in practice
Create an exploratory environment
7.4. Learn about the inner game
Cultivate situation feedback
Going beyond tennis
7.5. Pressure kills cognition
Grant permission to fail
7.6. Imagination overrides senses
Eggs are white, right?
Successful grooving
7.7. Learn it like an expert
But first, cut the green wire
Manage focus
8.1. Increase focus and attention
Attention deficit
Relaxed, concentration focus
How to meditate
8.2. Defocus to focus
8.3. Manage your knowledge
Developing your exocortex
Use a wiki
8.4. Optimize your current context
Context switching
Avoiding distractions
Single-task interfaces
Organize and process tasks efficiently
8.5. Manage interruptions deliberately
Set project rules of engagement
Rein in email
Context-friendly breaks
Enable maskable interrupts
Save your stack
8.6. Keep a big enough context
Maintain task focus
8.7. How to stay sharp
Beyond expertise
9.1. Effective change
9.2. What to do tomorrow morning
9.3. Beyond expertise