As a young kid I used to walk around our family farm . Question many things around me . Observe nature than think & ask myself what the possibilities may be . Strange enough the right answer would come to me ! Years later I would confirm to myself . Realize I knew much of what I’m being taught
I love how he ended up with a joke, so that listeners could have positive connotations with what he have said which would let out brain to learn it during sleep %) RU-vid did a good job to put this video in my related, much obliged, this small lection is great
That’s why all the best teachers are the ones who are funny. When you laugh, the information tends to resonate more. So be careful when someone is using comedy to get their message across, they could be placing incorrect information in your head simply by making you laugh.
Cool speech. Perfectly timed, in my suggestions, for me as I used to work out a lot and was making progress but a combination of minor injuries, increased study workload and increased distractions have got in the way recently. I will be going back at some point but I've been thinking about how to do better in my maths degree as there is no doubt the work has become more challenging for me. It might help to rethink how I learn.
A simple way to elaborate is to keep asking how. How is this part of my big picture related to other concepts that I'm learning? How can I can I subdivide a concept into subtopics or sub-concepts? How can I incorporate other concepts into my big picture to make it easier to increase understanding and memory? Remember to talk to yourself. Your brain tries to save energy and it naturally gets as lazy as you let it. Making sense out loud demands that you think clearly and it also sets your brain up for consolidation during sleep.
I would suggest you listen to it again. Just the two main ideas I got from listening to him are really worth a lot more than many other videos I have watched. 1. You can exercise your brain to make it grow. 2. talking to yourself is a great tool for that purpose. I wish I would have known this when I was young, but even at my age, I might still have great use for these two ideas.
@@__Nicholas__ your're right! Last weekend I was meditating on LSD and got the message "you don't need this anymore". Funny to read this comment now :D
I felt the same. Seems like he memorized the information. Doesn't seem credible.. The information is too basic but useful i guess. All he said was exercise and sleep to recover.
@@willm3027 Hi Will, you are right. I did memorize the talk. It took me 30 years to memorize it. If it is not credible, then it would be important to notify the scientists in brain research, sleep research, human performance research, and cognitive science research of the need to retract their findings. Also, you should never guess. Either know or don't know. And, one final response, maybe the most important, regarding your summary statement. What I said was learn from the way exercise and learning both have their effect during sleep. While your comments seem to reflect some insecurity on your part, you gave me a chance to address others like you that need to be clear when they offer suggestions.
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Great talk, but I wish it were longer; mainly want to see more totally comprehensive information about the minute areas of the brain, and how to hit them. There was no mention of the opposing hemispheres and their differences either, which is a little disappointing. Still, a great jump start for anyone looking to improve the mind. Thanks a bundle!
Wait... so my lifelong problems with sleep are the primary cause of why I have so much trouble retaining information and the worst experiences in my life are the ones I recall the clearest because I have that emotional component to them?! Are you serious? Fml.
i'm not doing this only to assist you, but also to reinforce my own learning -the brain does not have fixed intelligence, it can grow -for growth to happen these conditions must be met: 1. know one's brain 2. make decisions 3. DO SOMETHING - decision alone will not be enough, action must be taken 4. SLEEP - also extremely important as this is when learning really happens/is solidified into the brain. your brain replays the day's activities and decides what is important or not. it only keeps what is important. he says that for the brain to see it as important, an emotion needs to be attached to the thing one is learning -there are four different skills the brain uses that we can improve: sensory, memory, thinking, and motor skills -sensory can be improved by mindfulness meditation, which help us increase focus and attention -memory can be improved by elaborating the big picture. he brushes through quickly because of the time restriction, but in essence just add more details to your ruminations and creation. he references drawing larger concept maps so i imagine this applies to anything like writing a story or even just imagining a room in your head and adding details thinking which is associated with decision making can be improved by always asking what when where who why how motor skills are improved by talking to one's self. he doesn't really go into that much in this video.
How does this fit in with sociopaths? If learning is only triggered when emotion is attached to the new information, then how can we have highly intelligent sociopaths who have little to not emotional capacity?
@@estefaniaibanezreyes4078 they are empathic (they understand if you are happy or sad) but not sympathic(they don't identify with your happiness or sadness)
I like your sign in name. It compels one to finish Gandhi's quote, "Be the future you wish to create." Concise and powerful. This is what I teach my students when I teach them how to learn.
This guy has no idea what he's talking about. I'm a PHD student in cognitive neuroscience all this guy does is poorly explain how some types of learning occurs. Learning and intelligence are very different; in fact, one of the most universal (although somewhat simplified) definitions of intelligence is the ability to learn. Intelligence is mostly fixed. Brain performance and learning ability is almost entirely determined by genetics. The only science-backed advice he offers is the importance of quality sleep, and possibly meditation. However, he completely misunderstands basic definitions and mechanisms of neuro and psych.
Christian Puzzo Hi Christian, it seems that until now you do not know anything from David Perkins (Harvard) - he explains the definition of intelligence in a new way - or from Bruce Lipton respectively epigenetics?
Christian, I'm not sure whose lab you are working in but you are about 20 years out of date. I can help you correct that if you will have your advisor contact me for some references on how the brain processes and consolidates information. Just Google my name and add the word "medical" to narrow down the hits and you will access the home page to my website. From there you can decide on what you want to do. A little more advice that I give my students. Don't give opinions and don't accept opinions. They are lazy thinking. Instead you should provide rationales. Rationales are something you can debate, opinions just lead to playground arguments. To your credit you do eventually try to provide rationales but they are incorrect. This is not the vehicle to debate your statements, but one resource other than my website that will help get you started is a book by James Zull, "The Art of Changing the Brain". I can see that you are young and new to graduate work, and your willingness to speak out will eventually serve you, but you need to learn a little more.
