Learning how to learn: Some Key Points

Learning how to learn: Some Key Points

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  Learning How toLearn: Some Key Points
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  Learning How toLearn: Some Key Points • How the brain works. The focused mode and the diffuse mode. • A useful tool: chunking. Do the pomodoro and repeat repeat repeat. • Avoid procrastination. I'll talk about that tomorrow, maybe. Or next week. Or perhaps next month...
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  Meet the twoways the brain functions while learning: • The focused mode. • The diffuse mode.
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  Chunk like youmean it! One of the most useful tools for learning is chunking. Chunking is breaking great pieces of information into smaller and more manageable bits or “chunks”. These chunks interact together in our brain, like the pieces in a puzzle, to form a bigger picture. Piece of cake!
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  Avoiding procrastination (orhow not to leave things for later). Avoiding procrastination (or how not to leave things for later). The best way to do that is by… The best way to do that is by…
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  What was Isaying? Oh, yes. Procrastination and how to avoid it. It’s easy: once you start working on what makes you unhappy, that feeling of unhappiness disappears. So, what are you waiting for? Stop procrastinating and get to work!