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October 22 - November 23, 2019
was fortunate enough to have read Moonwalking with Einstein just
students because of the time he
using the Pomodoro technique and frequently testing myself,
often, capturing your thoughts and putting them onto paper can help you discover what you really think and
exercise seems to serve as an all-purpose restart button
stimulating production of a protein, BDNF, which
She began keeping records of her experimentation
Surround yourself with lovely little things that you can afford and that make your environment beautiful. Environment counts.
act friendly to everyone unless there is a good reason not to. Learn people’s names.
She was in a cycle of negatively forecasting how pleasant or worthwhile events would be when
completely impossible seems easy after a week’s practice. “Deliberate practice” of the tougher aspects of the material allows you to develop expertise much more quickly.3
stepping back to understand, practice, and repeat the toughest problems is like playing air guitar to learn how to play a real guitar.
Focusing your attention on learning something, followed by sleep, is a magic combination that allows for new synaptic connections (indicated here by triangles) to form.
space learning out day by day.
Additional days of practice allow for more—and stronger—neural pathways to develop.
Practice and repeat little chunks of learning over the course of several days. This will create the neural patterns that underlie
applying metaphors
coming up with colorful images with a fun soundtrack can even make quadratic equations fun!
thinking about the new concepts I have learned just before going to sleep.
teaching myself out loud; that
Are there new technical areas you could start now to gradually learn about
The best nurturing for gritty people, Duckworth finds, includes both tough and loving relationships.
to intentionally work to create situations where we can discover whether we are wrong.
mentorships were relationships that arose spontaneously from searching for opportunities in day-to-day life.
Under the title “Learning Goals,” put some of your thoughts in writing.
focusing on the audience
and their needs gets him out of his own head and past feelings
you have to learn how to motivate yourself every
open monitoring types of meditation, such as Vipassana and mindfulness,
improve diffuse, imaginative thinking.
having some daily time when your mind is encouraged to relax and wander freely
Working memory, as it turns out, has a counterintuitive relationship with both intelligence and creativity.
Working memory-related practice may give us stronger mental “muscles” for cognitively managing emotional stimuli.
adopting a learning lifestyle can just plain make us feel better.
the smarter you are, the easier it can be to talk yourself out of things.”
Terry learned how to build intriguing story hooks for everyone from beginners to experts.
rejuvenation can come through moving from one specialty to another.”
“You can always tell the pioneers by the arrows in their backs.”
Physics, Terry has observed, is a field imbued with hubris—the
quick to correct himself and change course once he’s detected his error.
electronic chips that neurons can grow on, giving researchers a better understanding of how neurons interact with one another in groups.
marry some of your old skills with new ones.
Humility is important during the learning process, along with persistence.
context that allows you to make the shift.
boot camp–like experiences to make new connections and immerse yourself in the new ideas.
“He’d ask people to come and train him through discussions.”
four years of reading, thinking, and writing shorter articles in an area and then two years to finish a book. Then I jump to another distinct area.
Live a double life for a while,
Gazzaley found that
older subjects who played just one hour of Neuroracer a day, three days a week for a month—twelve hours of total play—experienced
