《Learning How To Learn》

chuck

create chuck

1. Focused attention
2. understand
3. context
   • practice to help you gain mastery and a sense of the big-picture context

• transfer: a chunk you have mastered in one area help you learn chunks in another areas

path

1. bottonm up: practice help you both build and strengthen
2. top down :what you are learning and where it fits in

getting your learning on track

1. importance of recall
   • 在不同的地方学习
2. illusions of competence in learning
   • you think it is easier to look at the book instead of recalling

   • when they have Google open right in front of them, it provides the illusion that the material is also in their brains

   • mini-testing
   • Minimize highlighting
   • mistakes
   • deliberate practice
3. mini-testing
4. value of making mistakes

chuck2

what motivate you? neuromodulator system：

1. Acetylcholine(乙酰胆碱)
   • important for focused learning new long mem
2. dopamine（多巴胺）
   • 快感
   • 缺少会得帕金森
3. serotonin（血清素）
   • lower serotonin means risk taking behavior
   • Prozac(百忧解) raises the level of Serotonin activity

• emotion
• amygdala(杏仁核)

Library of chucks

• sequential
• Holistic

interleave（交错）

einstellung（定式）

overlearning

• valuable：public speaking, tennis, piano

procrastination(拖延)&memory

zombies

• minimizing your use of willpower
• chucking is related to habit. habit is an energy saver for us.

habits have 4 parts:

1. cue
   • the trigger that launches you into zombie mode.
     1. location
     2. time
     3. how you feel
     4. reactions
2. routine
   1. plan : rewire your old habit. Develope a new ritual(仪式)
3. reward 1.
4. belief

Process vs product

• focus on process not on product
• The product triggers the pain that causes you to procrastinate

juggling life and learning

1. weekly list of key tasks
2. Daily to do list: write it down the evening before write down : free your working memory
   • plan your quitting time
   • do most difficult and most dislike first

long term memory

• glial cell(胶质细胞)
  • astrocytes(星形胶质细胞)（最多）
• memory palace technique

week4:Renaissance Learning and Unlocking Your Potential

how to more profitably interact with fellow learners, how to recognize your own strengths, and how to avoid the ‘imposter syndrome.’（冒名顶替综合征）

• physical exercise

• 大脑发展的黄金时期

• The visual cortex reached maturation in childhood

• The prefrontal cortex is the last part of the cortex to mature

• learn using metaphor and analogy
• work profitably with teammates
• perform well on tests

week4-2

• right hemisphere help us step back and put our work into big picture perspective