Learning

Learning

1. Keep an Open Mind

2. Learn History of thing

   • Evolution

3. Examples

   • Tomatoes
     • Growing Methods
       • Bury stem
       • Lay stem in the ground
       • Tie up vs not
       • Hanging Upside down in baskets
   • Compost
     • Stir or not?
   • Pyramids

4. Own Experience Sufficient?

5. Others Experience

   • In Person
   • Online
     • Forums

6. Nature Be the teacher

   • How does nature do it?

7. Relative to variables

   • Geographic location etc

8. Based on scientific research.

   • Reasoning behind

9. Truth is

   • Relative
     • Perspective
   • Qualitive/Quantative
   • Measure in popularity?

10. Predicting & Problem Solving

    • Intuition
    • Logic
      • Reasoning

11. Good sources to learn from?

    • Message vs Messenger

12. Scientific experiements

    • Scientific method
    • Influence of differing variables makes impossible under non-scientific conditions

13. Practice makes perfect

    • Applying knowledge to new situations
      • Knowing how your brain adapts to new skills is just part of the process. That knowledge is worthless if you don't know how to apply it.
    • Learn best when have context - apply to every day life situations
      • Transfer of Learning

14. Knowledge, Understanding, Wisdom

15. Not necessary correlates with age etc

16. Observational & Associative

    • Biological, Cognitive & Cultural Factors

17. From Authoritive Figures?

18. 7 Types

    • Visual
    • Aural
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    • Solitary
    • Verbal
    • Physical
    • Logical

19. Stimulus/Problems Encountered in Life

20. Read Later

    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_styles
    • http://lifehacker.com/the-science-behind-how-we-learn-new-skills-908488422
    • http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~kihlstrm/GSI_2011.htm
    • http://blog.bufferapp.com/why-we-have-our-best-ideas-in-the-shower-the-science-of-creativity

21. Observational Record Keeping

    • Help build on past experiences

22. Benefits

23. Productive Failure

    • Learning without guides or help
    • Setting up for failure
    • Trail & Error

24. Distributed Practice - Not Binge Learning

    • delayed retrieval practice

25. WHEN is just as important as HOW

26. Experential

27. Play & Creative Challenges

    • Role of play

28. Learning Through Creativity

    • “A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful (or influential) in a particular social setting.” – Alice Flaherty
    • Dopamine Release Events
    • Distraction
      • “In other words, a distraction may provide the break you need to disengage from a fixation on the ineffective solution.’’
    • Relaxed State of Mind
      • Activation, not relaxation, good for creativity?
        • Relaxation not incubation
          • Incubation - doing other tasks
    • Take a Shower
    • The trick is not to optimize for how to spark your creative spirit. The trick is to make sure you capture it, whenever it happens.
    • Keep Notebook All Time

29. Best Ideas in the shower

    • Role of Dopamine
      • Aids Creativity
    • Happy events release Dopamine

30. Disengagement & Distraction (Incubation Period)

    • Utilising the Subconscious Mind
    • Main Task, Then Other Tasks then Main Task (Mind works on main task whilst doing menial tasks in between)

31. Through Confusion?

    • More struggle, more likely will learn
    • Surpass 'I Suck' Barrier
      • Try another source
      • Take Break every 90 minutes
      • Sleep on it
      • Take it slow to catch mistakes
      • Know when to quit
        • Try a smaller project instead

32. Pitfalls

    • Confirmation Bias
    • Brains Shortcuts

33. Begginners Luck

    • Replicating
      • In every situation, consider what you've seen before and what's different
      • Consider crazy ideas and strategies
      • When you're sure something won't work, consider it anyway.
      • If you have an idea you really like but are afraid to try it, that's probably a good sign.
      • If you find yourself under pressure and over-thinking, listen to your gut instead of your brain. If you're under-thinking and acting too quickly, step back and take a moment to consider your options.

34. Memory

    • Types
      • Procedual
        • In many cases, you'll develop them without realizing it. These procedural memories can be extremely useful for repeat tasks, but as soon as you're thrown in a new situation or are up agains a capricious opponent you're suddenly at a disadvantage.

35. Big innovation is right on the edge of ridiculous ideas.

    • You need an environment that isn't quite so judgmental about a ridiculous idea. Sometimes those are the ones that are so close to being the brilliant ones.

36. From Mistakes (Own experience)

    • Wise people admit their mistakes easily. They know progress accelerates when they do.
      • This advice runs counter to the cultural assumptions we have about mistakes and failure, namely that they are shameful things.
    • http://lifehacker.com/5863490/how-to-learn-from-your-mistakes
    • The kind of mistakes you make define you. The more interesting the mistakes, the more interesting the life. If your biggest mistakes are missing reruns of tv-shows or buying the wrong lottery ticket you're not challenging yourself enough to earn more interesting mistakes.
    • This is why success in learning from mistakes often requires involvement from other people, either for advice, training or simply to keep you honest.

37. Human Perceptions

    • perception, including their own, is highly fallible and biased by many factors. The only way to obtain an objective understanding is to compare several different perspectives.

38. How to know if image not photoshopped?

    • Misinformation, Disimformation

39. Setting up for intentional failur

    • New skill with no guide
    • Cut yourself off from answers (like google)

40. Learning & self compassion

    • You've heard the refrain before: In order to master something, you have to start first, and starting involves being bad at it for a while.
    • Give yourself permissions to suck—if you don't, you'll never improve.
    • http://lifehacker.com/5957937/give-yourself-permission-to-suck-its-the-only-way-to-learn
    • Beating Pride
      • Know when to ask for help!

41. Mind of a Child

    • We now think like adults. That is we think too much and our thoughts are too influ­enced by our knowl­edge. We need to get back our abil­ity to think like kids again. How?
      • become truly cre­ative you need to be able to lib­er­ate your mind from the the shell of knowl­edge, edu­ca­tion and adul­ti­fi­ca­tion you have accu­mu­lated. Only then can you think like a child again.
        • Learning example: http://lifehacker.com/5899592/overthinking-and-your-child-like-mind

42. Knowing when to quite

    • Ask for help?
    • Proper Job Tools? Proper skills?
    • Past point of no return?
    • Sunk-cost fallacy?
      • A "sunk cost" is just what it sounds like: time or money you've already spent. The sunk-cost fallacy is when you tell yourself that you can't quit because of all that time or money you spent. We shouldn't fall for this fallacy

43. Learning From Myself

    • Youtube Channel
      • Allotment: Growing & Cooking
      • Geocaching
      • Science
      • Personal vlog

44. Learning via story telling

45. The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see. – Alexandra K. Tren

    • Curiosity is a powerful force. If you tell someone where to look, and let them observe, they are far more likely to become interested. If you tell them what they see, why would they bother to look? The curiosity is gone.
      • In this way, the teachers are best who inspire you to want to learn. And not just from that teacher, but to continue to learn for the rest of your life.
      • Unanswered questions are one way curiosity manifests itself.
      • see if I could get your curiosity to hit your favorite search engine and look it up for yourself. Did it work, or were you not that interested?
      • When my curiosity has lead me to find the information, it is far easier to remember than if someone just gives me the answer.
      • inspires my imagination
      • We all have things which interest us, and things which our curiosity would like to investigate. The question is how often do we indulge ourselves with a journey of learning? If you’re too busy, that probably means you are just a little too busy.
        • the one who will ask more than tell and respect each and every kid's need to explore an idea or concept rather than blindly memorize it. As in the quotation: "shows where to look but not what to see."
    • curiosity not only gets us into a lot of trouble, it helps us learn.
    • Why do you want to know something? What drives you to search the internet or dig through old reference books?
    • curiosity will result in both learning and understanding.

46. Via Storytelling

    • We know that we can activate our brains better if we listen to stories.
      • Why is that? Why does the format of a story, where events unfold one after the other, have such a profound impact on our learning?
    • The simple answer is this: We are wired that way. A story, if broken down into the simplest form, is a connection of cause and effect. And that is exactly how we think.
    • Now, whenever we hear a story, we want to relate it to one of our existing experiences.
    • That's why metaphors work so well with us. While we are busy searching for a similar experience in our brains, which helps us relate to that same experience of pain, joy, or disgust.
    • a story is the only way to activate parts in the brain so that a listener turns the story into their own idea and experience.
    • APPLICATION OF: The next time you struggle with getting people on board with your projects and ideas, simply tell them a story, where the outcome is that doing what you had in mind is the best thing to do.
    • Write more persuasively—bring in stories from yourself or an expert
    • The simpler a story, the more likely it will stick. Using simple language as well as low complexity is the best way to activate the brain regions that make us truly relate to the happenings of a story.
      • Try for example to reduce the number of adjectives or complicated nouns in a presentation or article and exchange them with more simple, yet heartfelt language.
    • Our brain learns to ignore certain overused words and phrases that used to make stories awesome.
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47. Fluidity

48. Improvisation