Learning Modes

Question 1

What are the two types of distinct learning modes?

Answer 1

Focused and diffuse.

//WIP explanation
In focused mode thoughts are very tightly packed together so making connections to distant thoughts is harder.

In diffuse mode thoughts are less tightly packed and connections between them can be made easier while focused thinking is harder.

Question 2

What two great thinkers found speedy ways to access diffuse mode thinking

Answer 2

Thomas Edison and Salvador Dali

Edison dosed off in a chair while holding ball bearings which would snap him out of diffuse mode.

Question 3

What needs to happen to allow focused and diffuse mode thinking to work together to solve a problem?

Answer 3

After concentrating intently on a problem for a period it is good to take a break and allow the brain to build new neural structures while relaxing or performing an unrelated activity.

Question 4

What is the ‘pomodoro’ technique and what problem does it help with?

Answer 4

The pomodoro technique involves spending 25 minutes in intense concentration followed by a brief period of mental relaxation

Question 5

How do you enhance and strength neural structures that are being built during learning?

Answer 5

Practice and repetition.

Especially for more abstract topics.

Question 6

How many slots are there in our working memory?

Answer 6

4

Things need to be repeated mentally to hold memories in the slots.

Question 7

What helps wash toxins out of the brain?

Answer 7

Sleep

Never take a test or do any other mentally taxing activity while sleep deprived. You are doing it with poison on the brain.