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From a previous comment of mine: Barbara Oakley's Learning How To Learn class [0] was immensely helpful for understanding how brains work and how I could learn
by otras 8y ago
From a previous comment of mine:
Barbara Oakley's Learning How To Learn class [0] was immensely helpful for understanding how brains work and how I could learn efficiently.
I made it through college with a combination of cramming and bad sleep habits, but focusing on spaced repetition, the diffuse/active modes, and sleep has made classes I've taken since feel like easy mode.
[0]: https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn
- platform 8y agoDr. Oalkley's book https://barbaraoakley.com/books/a-mind-for-numbers/ https://barbaraoakley.com/books/a-mind-for-numbers/ Added a lot of clarity to my process of thinking. Highly recommend as well (I did not take the course, though, just found the book by accident).
- tmaly 8y agoWhat is the youngest age you think could handle this book?
- platform 8y agoI am not an expert by any means. But asking child at, say, age 13 to read portions of it and explain back to parents, what she/he picked up from there -- will work well. Probably a type of 'self-awareness' of own's thinking process does not start before 11.
- nnd 8y agoI felt that the course was too long to cover just a few topics like spaced repetition and diffuse mode. Besides those key takeaways are pretty intuitive.
- mattmanser 8y agoThere is a lot more to it than those two, and the whole thing's like 5 1 hour sessions.