Learning Tricks

(Summary from this video by Barbara Oakley)

• 9:00 Focused mode vs diffuse mode

• 17:30 Procrastination and Pomodoro technique

• 22:30 Sleep

• 19:00 How to overcome procrastination - task, time, no focus on pain - then reward.

• 22:00 Good guidelines - exercise importance around things to not feel test anxiety

• 28:00 Good metaphor

• 31:21 How to turn short term memory into long term memory by practicing - spaced repetitions

• 33:48 Chunking ideas

• 37:00 Top-down approach learning and practicing

• 38:30 Positive aspects of who have poor memory and think slowly

• 42:36 Imposter syndrome

• 43:39 Learning smarter:

  • Tests are the best

  • Use flashcards(?)

  • Redo hard homework problems

  • Recall while you’re learning

• 47:00 the absolute best way to read

  • Explain in a way 10 year old can understand

• 51:19 End