Learning how to learn
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This document discusses different modes of thinking and how to improve learning and memory. It explains that mixing focused and diffuse thinking is best for creativity. Memory is improved through repetition and using sensory and spatial associations. Procrastination occurs when the brain avoids difficult or unpleasant tasks, but it can be overcome using techniques like Pomodoro, focusing on processes not products, and developing helpful habits.
Learning how to learn
- 1. Learning how to learn Gabriel Zambrano
- 2. 1 Focused and diffuse modes of thinking. 2 Memory 3 Procrastination
- 4. Focus mode
- 5. is when you concentrate and pay close attention to something you want to do or to learn
- 6. Diffuse mode
- 7. is when you are in a relax state. You let your mind go free with no worries or constrains
- 8. ok so what?
- 9. The best way to become creative, to understand and to find solutions to our problems is by mixing both thinking modes
- 10. Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things Steve Jobs
- 11. This is what happens in our brain. Each color represents a past experience or knowledge and the read lines is your brain jumping from one idea to another.
- 12. Concentration of ideas in the same regions of your brain Focus mode Diffuse mode Opens up ideas from other regions in the brain. It broaden your mind
- 13. Helps you getting things done Focus mode Diffuse mode Helps you connecting the dots
- 14. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand. Albert Einstein “ ”
- 15. Every time your are studying or working remember to take break to switch your thinking modes Go for Walk Do some sports Take a nap Do anything that free your mind
- 16. Memory
- 17. Memory is the process in which information is encoded, sto
- 18. Our brain works similar to a computer, once we have an information we need to know what to do with it Should we keep the information? Is it important? Will it be used often? Forget Forget No No Yes Forget Yes No PracticeRemember Yes
- 19. Similar to computers our brain has 2 types of memory Long term memory Short term memory High store capacity High accuracy with practice Small store capacity Fade with time
- 20. How to improve your memory ? REPETITION
- 22. A good way of transferring information from the short term memory into the long term memory is by using a technic called Space repetition Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Practice YES NO YES NO YES NO NO
- 23. Space repetition helps you reenforce your neuro-connections. It makes them stronger to avoid forgetting
- 25. More than 100 Millions years Less than 200 years } }
- 26. Based on our evolution, our memory has developed itself to serve us during millions of years for activities such as hunting, hiding from other predators, looking for shelter, etc. Thus, we have develop a very advanced sensorial and spacial memory.
- 27. Sensorial Memory Spacial memory Use your 5 senses to better hook a memory. If you want to remember something, imagine how it looks, feels, sounds, smells. The more you exaggerate the better easier it would be to remember. Make the memory as emotional as possible, you can imagine something funny. Use your creativity Using a technic call the memory palace can help you remember thing in an specific order or list of items Take each item of the list you want to remember and place them in a memory of a place you know very well, like your home Follow a path to find each item in that order
- 28. 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 Flying tickets Buy paper Change my glasses Buy milk Example of a memory palace Advice: Exaggerate even more
- 29. Procrastination
- 30. Procrastination happens when you have to do something that you don’t want to. Your brain is looking for any excuse to avoid pain and look for pleasure, this is why procrastination is consider to have similar features with addiction.
- 31. Why
- 32. The brain has to do something that it is to difficult to understand, or it requires to much concentration, or simply it doesn’t like it. Then it ill try to fool you into doing something else
- 33. How to avoid procrastination Pomodoro technique Process vs product Habits
- 34. 25 minutes of full concentration non stop Pomodoro technique
- 35. Learn to control your emotions of discomfort Product (final result) causes your pain Don’t focus on the final result, but instead create mini task to achieve the goal Work on how can you make these mini task be as much pleasant as you can, and create little habits Process vs product
- 36. Keep a planner journal Write your todo list the night before Change environment Look for cues Backup plan for procrastinating Do what you don’t like first in the day Habits
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