00:22 How to Become a Straight-A Student - Cal Newport 00:47 A Mind for Numbers - Barbara Oakley 1:17 How We Learn - Stanislas Dehaene 1:33 Why Don’t Students Like School - Daniel Willingham 1:52 Make it Stick - Peter Brown, Henry Reedier and Mark McDaniel 2:22 The Power of Explicit teaching and Direct Instruction - Greg Ashman 3:00 Peak - Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool 3:32 How We Learn to Move - Rob Gray 4:13 How to Take Smart Notes - Sönke Ahrens 4:39 Moonwalking with Einstein - Joshua Foer
Scott! I have read most of the books that you outlined in this video, however, your book coupled with your blog and TH-cam videos have been indispensible and instrumental in my personal and professional journey as a programmer. Your book stil remains unchallenged and unparalleled. Heck! I own two copies of your book, a softcover as well as a hardcover copy.
It seems my post was deleted for some reason, perhaps because of the link. If anyone wants my personal summary of all 10 books, here it is. I have omitted the - 'scuse me my French - typical "academic jargon" bs bullet points: - Study for less time, but be really focused when you study. - Keep a work progress journal to uncover your excuses Use the three P’s (planning, proceeding, proofreading) to move through exams smoothly. Choose the easier questions first - Learn how your brain works. Your brain switches often from focused to diffused thinking. Focused thinking = Conscious. Prefrontal cortex (which handles logical, analytical thinking) to target a specific issue. Diffuse thinking = Subconscious. Occurs in more relaxed state. Mind wanders, picking up scattered thoughts and ideas from different parts of the brain, creating fresh insights. - 2 Key Memory System: Short-term (can hold 4 clusters of info at any given time) and long-term (needs to be revisited occasionally). To learn effectively, improve memory and how to transfer info from short-term to long-term memory. - Overcome procrastination - 4 pillars of learning: Attention, active engagement, error feedback and consolidation - Humans aren’t actually that good at thinking, but we are pretty great at pattern recognition. - Memorizing fact-based knowledge is the basis for completing more complex tasks. - Children’s learning processes are more alike than different. -No one is born with a fixed intelligence level. - The most common learning practices are, in fact, the most ineffective ones. (Ditch the traditional studying practices and adopt the right habits of successful learning.) - The retrieval-practice effect, or the testing effect, is one sure way to achieve mastery in a domain. (repeat paragraphs or bits of information in spaced-out sessions.) - When you’ll be able to explain a complex topic in simple words, you’ll be fully mastering the topic. (Google "Feynman method") - Another way to make information stick is by linking it to already existing information in your brain. Currently, researchers found that there is no limit to what you can learn when you associate something new with an older memory. - The power of purposeful practice: Take advantage of the brain’s adaptability. “If you practice something enough, your brain will repurpose neurons to help with the task even if they already have another job to do.” Summary of the book "How to Take Smart Notes" by Sönke Ahrens: Make fleeting notes Make literature notes Make permanent notes Now add your new permanent notes to the slip-box Develop your topics, questions and research projects bottom up from within the slip-box Decide on a topic to write about from within the slip-box Turn your notes into a rough draft Edit and proofread your manuscript 10) Moonwalking with Einstein: I suggest you read this as it gives memory tools to remember things, mainly pegging mental images which can be decoded to the info you want to remember
00:22 How to Become a Straight-A Student - Cal Newport
00:47 A Mind for Numbers - Barbara Oakley
1:17 How We Learn - Stanislas Dehaene
1:33 Why Don’t Students Like School - Daniel Willingham
1:52 Make it Stick - Peter Brown, Henry Reedier and Mark McDaniel
2:22 The Power of Explicit teaching and Direct Instruction - Greg Ashman
3:00 Peak - Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool
3:32 How We Learn to Move - Rob Gray
4:13 How to Take Smart Notes - Sönke Ahrens
4:39 Moonwalking with Einstein - Joshua Foer
Have read 5 of those. Just wish I had done so when I was 15.
Scott Young the goat!
I really appreciate how it's straight to the point and being short and useful at the same time
Scott! I have read most of the books that you outlined in this video, however, your book coupled with your blog and TH-cam videos have been indispensible and instrumental in my personal and professional journey as a programmer. Your book stil remains unchallenged and unparalleled. Heck! I own two copies of your book, a softcover as well as a hardcover copy.
The 10 best books about how to easily learn about 10 books about learning.
i will just read Babara Oakley for now
Please increase the volume of your voice in the podcast
💙💙💙
Some sharper images and a bit more pop on your thumbnails and a crisper video quality would supercharge your channel.
It seems my post was deleted for some reason, perhaps because of the link. If anyone wants my personal summary of all 10 books, here it is. I have omitted the - 'scuse me my French - typical "academic jargon" bs bullet points:
- Study for less time, but be really focused when you study.
- Keep a work progress journal to uncover your excuses
Use the three P’s (planning, proceeding, proofreading) to move through exams smoothly. Choose the easier questions first
- Learn how your brain works. Your brain switches often from focused to diffused thinking. Focused thinking = Conscious. Prefrontal cortex (which handles logical, analytical thinking) to target a specific issue. Diffuse thinking = Subconscious. Occurs in more relaxed state. Mind wanders, picking up scattered thoughts and ideas from different parts of the brain, creating fresh insights.
- 2 Key Memory System: Short-term (can hold 4 clusters of info at any given time) and long-term (needs to be revisited occasionally). To learn effectively, improve memory and how to transfer info from short-term to long-term memory.
- Overcome procrastination
- 4 pillars of learning: Attention, active engagement, error feedback and consolidation
- Humans aren’t actually that good at thinking, but we are pretty great at pattern recognition.
- Memorizing fact-based knowledge is the basis for completing more complex tasks.
- Children’s learning processes are more alike than different.
-No one is born with a fixed intelligence level.
- The most common learning practices are, in fact, the most ineffective ones. (Ditch the traditional studying practices and adopt the right habits of successful learning.)
- The retrieval-practice effect, or the testing effect, is one sure way to achieve mastery in a domain. (repeat paragraphs or bits of information in spaced-out sessions.)
- When you’ll be able to explain a complex topic in simple words, you’ll be fully mastering the topic. (Google "Feynman method")
- Another way to make information stick is by linking it to already existing information in your brain. Currently, researchers found that there is no limit to what you can learn when you associate something new with an older memory.
- The power of purposeful practice: Take advantage of the brain’s adaptability. “If you practice something enough, your brain will repurpose neurons to help with the task even if they already have another job to do.”
Summary of the book "How to Take Smart Notes" by Sönke Ahrens:
Make fleeting notes
Make literature notes
Make permanent notes
Now add your new permanent notes to the slip-box
Develop your topics, questions and research projects bottom up from within the slip-box
Decide on a topic to write about from within the slip-box
Turn your notes into a rough draft
Edit and proofread your manuscript
10) Moonwalking with Einstein: I suggest you read this as it gives memory tools to remember things, mainly pegging mental images which can be decoded to the info you want to remember
Nice one dude