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What is neuroplasticity? |
The fact that the brain is mutable and reorganizes itself with each task. |
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Why does neuroplasticity mean for learning?
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It means that our abilities aren't fixed.
Because the brain can change, your abilities can improve - with practice. |
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How do genes and effort affect abilities? |
Genes set how quickly your abilities can improve through practice, effort is the actual motor of that improvement. |
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What techniques should people adopt to improve their abilities? |
Deliberate practice - goal-oriented, challenging, repeated practice. Growth mindset - the belief that their abilities are largely within their control and can improve through effort.
Mnemonic devices - use to recall what you're already mastered. |
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How can people achieve mastery? |
Through 10,000 hours of deliberate practice.
All experts have worked really hard to get there, regardless of whatever facility for the topic they got through genes. |
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What attitudes are associated with a growth mindset? |
Motivation to work hard - because you know that's the path to learning
Self-discipline - you do it every time Focus - you stay in task instead of getting distracted
Grit - you keep going when it's hard
Persistence - you try again when you fail |
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What are mnemonic devices for? Not for? |
They're not tools for learning per se, but rather for creating mental structures that make it easier to retrieve what you have already learned. |
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What are mnemonic devices for? Not for? |
They're not tools for learning per se, but rather for creating mental structures that make it easier to retrieve what you have already learned. |
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Give examples of mnemonic devices |
Memory palaces Acronyms Rhyme schemes |
