“ Worst. Idea. Ever.” of chapter 1 is telling us what we hear on the radio, watch on the TV, see on the newspaper is not really true. Some time we need to look deep inside and think deeper into it to find out the fact. As many a human believe that Edison is the one who invents the light bulb, but in the chapter 1 states “Humphrey Davy invented it forty-five years before Edison was even born”. I believe every one after reading this chapter will be surprise just like me. And we may be asking: “why do books or histories telling us that Edison is the one discover the light bulb?” The answer is marketing. Edison knows how to use media to make his name or company more famous and well known. Also most of human believe that genius is a “gift”
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As in the chapter 1 mention “What it takes to become a genius is about 10,000 hours of focused practice.” And “Mozart wasn’t born composing masterpieces; his great works didn’t begin until he had been playing every day for eighteen …show more content…
Some time we do addition or multiplication, we may know the answer immediately without the pause. Why does it happen like this way? Because we practice the math problem day by day and this pattern has been store in our brain. It has become a long term memory. As we practice the problem a little bit, it only stimulates our neuron a little, and the connection of each neuron is less. But if we practice a lot, the stimulation of each neuron is more frequently, the connection is going to be much more. Same as we try to learn how to walk when we are toddler. In this chapter, it has stated a good point “fix-it-focused practice”. We will ask what is that mean? The answer is simple, it tell us to be concentrate, slow to practice on one new thing to make sure it right, instead to do it fast and get it wrong. Even though, the first time we do it wrong, we double check, clarify what it is wrong and fix the mistake. Then we will learn from our mistake and get to the right answer. That is how our brain work and learn thing correctly. The more we practice the better and faster we
As in the chapter 1 mention “What it takes to become a genius is about 10,000 hours of focused practice.” And “Mozart wasn’t born composing masterpieces; his great works didn’t begin until he had been playing every day for eighteen …show more content…
Some time we do addition or multiplication, we may know the answer immediately without the pause. Why does it happen like this way? Because we practice the math problem day by day and this pattern has been store in our brain. It has become a long term memory. As we practice the problem a little bit, it only stimulates our neuron a little, and the connection of each neuron is less. But if we practice a lot, the stimulation of each neuron is more frequently, the connection is going to be much more. Same as we try to learn how to walk when we are toddler. In this chapter, it has stated a good point “fix-it-focused practice”. We will ask what is that mean? The answer is simple, it tell us to be concentrate, slow to practice on one new thing to make sure it right, instead to do it fast and get it wrong. Even though, the first time we do it wrong, we double check, clarify what it is wrong and fix the mistake. Then we will learn from our mistake and get to the right answer. That is how our brain work and learn thing correctly. The more we practice the better and faster we