Learning How to Learn Flashcards
1
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Benefits of doodling
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- relaxes the mind so ideas can be absorbed better
- visually represents difficult ideas
- looking at the doodles helps for recalling the ideas
2
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What is the creativity process?
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- preparing and studying obsessively to gain mastery
- relaxing and incubating on what you know
- the “Eureka!” moment of inspiration
- cold hard verification that the idea is good
3
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What are traits of creativity?
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- obsessiveness on the subject
- simplicity
- craziness, thinking outside the box
- courageousness, not letting fear get in the way
- being wrong and bouncing back
- relax
4
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Describe procrastination
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- thinking about doing an unpleasant task triggers the brain’s pain response
- you try to alleviate the pain by doing something else, procrastinating
- however soon after starting the task the pain goes away
5
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What are the stages of habits?
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- cue: the cue that triggers the habit
- routine: dropping into the automatic actions of the habit
- reward: the mental reward for finishing the action
- belief: belief that the habit is good and or necessary
6
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How do you fight procrastination?
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- focus on process instead of product, like regular schedules and pomodoros
- tell yourself to “just do it”, but willpower is scarce so use sparingly
7
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How do you enlist habits to fight procrastination?
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- cues: understand the cues and create an environment without them
- routine: use routine to your advantage and create a task routine, where the mind can be on auto-pilot
- reward: make sure to reward yourself consistently for the effort, through frequent breaks, doing things you enjoy, and bigger rewards for bigger accomplishments
- belief: believe that your routine and process works
8
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What are effective ways to introduce process?
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- keep a task journal
- write out what you will do the next day in the journal
- make the goals achievable
- set a definite and reasonable end time
- work on hardest tasks first
- make note of what is and isn’t effective for your process
9
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What are methods to improve memory retention?
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- use your visual memory to remember things
- use striking and wild images
- use as much detail in the images as possible
- practice the memory images regularly, daily, weekly, then monthly
- use flash cards with images
10
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Zombie Mode
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- the relaxed state of routine action
- very little thought involved
- examples are tying your shoes, brushing your teeth, driving, riding a bike, etc.
11
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How can your senses help you with memory?
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- engaging more senses helps to create more detail and more memorable images and ideas
12
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How can acronyms and mnemonic phrases help with memorization?
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- you can take a list of ideas either related or unrelated and the create acronyms from the first letter of each word
- you can take a list of ideas and relate them with a short story in the form of a phrase
13
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What are some benefits of exercise?
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- it keeps neurons from new learning (red) alive
- it’s better than any drug on the market for brain stimulation in learning
14
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How can you use Metaphors and Analogy in learning?
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- you create metaphors for things you want to learn and remember to remember and understand them better
- an anion which is the negative counterpart to a cation is like an onion in that it makes you cry
- a cation which is positive is like a cat playing
- Syria looks like a bowl of cereal on a map
- metaphors can also be mini stories putting different concepts together in interesting ways
- you can also put yourself in the middle of the story to make it resonate better
15
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What are the benefits of brainstorming?
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- helps to gut check your assumptions by bouncing your ideas off of others
- helps to come up with new ideas
- acts as a large-scale diffuse mode
