Hi! I'm Marta, a professor on a mission to become a better thinker 🧐💛 Every Tuesday I publish The Thinkfulness Project, my findings from a weekly commitment to the pursuit of thinking skills, decision-making, and better learning.
Find a problem you want to solve, READ about it in academic publications, collate the knowledge, analyse it, look for patters, think critically about it, come up with your own solution.
Please keep on doing what you’re doing. Would you consider talking about philosophies like Stoicism and maybe demonstrate us how to get most out of such kind of studying?
Thank you for stopping by and for your kind comment 😊 years of living abroad and changing countries… at some point I even used to have a British accent!
De-braining sounds fantastic, I wish I could quiet my loud brain after work :D Instead, I obsess over what I consume to debrain: shows, characters, art... you name it!
Thank you for another helpful and inspiring video. I'm so glad I found your channel. It has already brought so much structure to my habits and valuable knowledge into my life.
You're making great videos! Commonplace books and changing the medium works great for me. This video just gave me the idea to bring in some fun and seek more feedback. Thought about uploading my learning materials (book chapters etc) to ChatGPT and ask ChatGPT to make a fun quiz based on the learning materials.
For me to master self studies it was about to change my mindset into i wanna learn because i WANT to know not because i NEED to know. Also the first technique is the most important one in my eyes. Im a law student and i was struggeling with the mountain of stuff you need to know. But when you start kategorizing and connecting topics the cognitive Load goes down naturally and eneables learning. When u dont understand how a piece fits into a puzzle or how this piece forms a big picture in the first place and you need to learn it on the fly while also learning new details then you will always be overwhelmed from any new topic. Connections build Memory; so the true Tactic is to learn how to build connections and for that these tricks are really usefull Thanks you so much for putting them together with real life examples
These tips are perfect! They're exactly what my mom's been trying to drill into my brain since I started college. I tried a few before and they truly were game-changing, self study doesn't have to be a torment.
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Very good synopsis of what you are going to share in your videos. I am always a little bit lost on were to find it. I will have a look in your video section m.
@@martastrosa Hi there. Maybe in the comments pinned the title or date of the video the short is referring too. I am no much of a RU-vid expert. In your case I thought it mit be really helpful to find the video in order to go deeper.
Relationship is basically networking, and structure captial IS THE MOST IMPORTANT. As, making process, and your skills aligning to a capitalise it. Hence, these two seem the most important for a university student. Human captial should've been built in high-school at the lastest. In my opinion.
By the way, it's an amazing video. I agree that all three are important, but in the context of TIME, these two seem to gain more importance, and humans should've been built as a child.
Thank you so much for contributing! I’m wondering what you said about human capital being built in high-school. Don’t you think there’s need to continuously learn as we progress in our lives and careers?
Einstein... With scientists discovery is more difficult, because most of the times you stand there and say: What? Is that real, what they found out, I can't follow, can anybody tell me? With musicians it's easiest to tell, music hitting straight into the soul. I'm still mindblown from discovering the musician 'Ren' about an hour ago. I'm pretty convinced he files in that category. So does Aurora and the guy behind Gotye. Playing all your instruments on your own recording by yourself might be a starting point to spot a musical genious, then there is an artistical vision needed, and especially 'finished', not all are able to finish their vision and leave fragments. Great art is often created from suffering and struggling with the real world, or at least one's perception of. Books are far more difficult. Books happen hidden. And additionally as a reader you need to find the right book for the right mood in the right moment, to understand the writer. Herman Hesse's Siddharta was such a book for me. I think he was a genious, he hit the right tone I needed to hear at the right time. So was Tolkien, when I was a teen. You need to be nerdy, to produce a real artwork, he built his books around his own invented languages, wishing to recreate the lost mythology of the English people, and I dare say, his self-set task was definitively accomplished. Most Fantasy-authors today are his epigons. (I am one for certain, what I do is writing fanfics, even if I twist them around so often that it's impossible to tell what exactly I wrote the fanfic on.) Terry Pratchett as a satirist was a genious, no doubt, he had a wonderful human vision that carried his books during his high time. I would say he represents the Era of the 90's (especially, because he was using what was thrown at him and turning it into satire with a soft and loving twinkle.) And I remember 'The Ground Beneath Her Feet' by Salman Rushdie: It fitted perfectly in the era of the large rock concerts and large rock bands playing with oriental tunes in the late 70's up to the early 90's, and it twisted your mind in a way, that made you wonder, if it wasn't a real autobiography, because you thought you remembered hearing the songs and music the book described, or even thinking you saw a video of the invented artists. The problem with books is, that they need to be time- and placeless, to be really great literature, and with everybody writing trapped in their culture and timezone, it's hard to produce something universally valid and outstanding. 'The God of Small Things', perhaps, when talking about 'oriental' literature. Recently friends of mine talked about Kafka. I think, Kafka was mad. If you aren't already mad before you read it, you certainly are afterwards. At least he messes with my mind, and I can't bear reading it for longer than half an hour, it dragging me down in a hole I don't wish to go, it being far too similar to the hole I struggle and try to escape, myself. That's probably because it is great, timeless art, the suffering, struggling human reduced on their self, unable to understand and cope with the outside world. Painting and sculptures are easier, though even those are locked to a historical phase, though some remain iconic. So do some art-films, first you think: Uh what was that, why did I waste time to watch this? But then you realize the pictures they gave you, stick with you for decades. And going on to sculptures: I love those nerds that build and tinker an entire lifetime on those moving waste-material and scrap-metal 'worldmachines' or monuments in their farmbarns or garages. I like landart, too, that is supposed to dissolve into the surrounding again, but that's perhaps a poetic comment on the human condition, but not 'lasting'. Whoever invented that concept was a genious.
You know, this is an interesting way of putting it - I have always thought of knowledge workers as 'problem finders' and I prefer to aspire to be a problem-solver. 😂 Maybe the difference is that you have to be at least a little bit clever as a knowledge worker and I'm the reason why a village is missing its idiot somewhere...
Also on #3 - what would you call me 'thinking' in response to this video, please? For example, I paused when you said thinking is fully internal and I thought 'I want to disagree - what about thinking in group and sharing ideas?'
@@Dakez3112 I'm tempted to concede the point, but we do live in the age of groupthink. Could not Orwell's groupthink itself be classified as a flawed form of thinking - in/as a group?
@@karovscode You are correct that we live in an age of group think. That is why the world is in such a mess. Group think divides us. It separates us. A community of individuals is what can unite us. Karl Marx was a truly evil person who sought only to destroy thousands of years of evolutionary advancement.
This is sucha great analysis, @martastrosa, now we have to marketify it so it's palatable to everyone :D I've been trying to summarise the concepts in up to 6 words but can't get it right :D
I think this version of intellectual life borrows a lot from ideals of intelligentsia and I love it - it's such an anthitesis to today's loud and oft ignorant times!
Both types are crucial, of course, but I think there is an argument for adding a third one, diffuse ('intuitive') thinking. This is where the brain solves issues and gives us quick answers when we've slept or done something physical - i.e. after a good break. But only when we've activated the issue beforehand, otherwise it's just a crapshot!
Don't try to learn from a genius, you'll take up mental space and slow them down substantially, plus they can't transfer to you how they think, not that they couldn't explain it given time but you couldn't change enough to become it. It's best to try to understand the product of geniuses, after all the product is the gift that they have to offer the world.
@@martastrosa yes there is, as I say, you can learn from what they produce In their field. If you want to learn more from them it's a good idea to help them to produce more. They will of course explain their work but that's very different from being utilised to explain things they aren't producing/haven't produced. You can ask questions about specifics in their field of expertise too as geniuses will have a deep logical understanding of that particular area. As their college teacher it's important to provide them with information that is as accurate and up to date as possible, flawed information = barriers to overcome.
