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Primal Learning - How Brain learns

· 4 min read
Arpit Sharma
Vegard Gjerde
Mathias G

Mylan coating around brain cells help you retrieve faster

Use it or lose it

Implicit:

You learn more per hour if you space it out

You become average of the 5 people you spend most time with

Explicit:

Exercise and Meditation helps

Do important things first

Keep a distraction log- remember what distract you - becoming aware of what distracts you

Reference memory:

Green tea black tea and breath- alpha memory ( concentration )

Theta memory - 2 to 5years child - extraordinary learning

Set goal regular for dopamine release which will help you learn

Goals: subgoals Deadlines: many nd short

Each deadline you miss if you

Cold showers it Increase dopamine level by 250% and 500% noradrenaline

Vary exercise and push your limits for great endorphins release

Start singletasking

A day without setting goal is a day when you are not operating your best

1) struggle phase

Find out what you are afraid of and create strong emotional attachment

1) start easy 2) reward yourself for small goals 3) start moving, get up and walk around , moving around motion create emotion 4) create deadline 5) get accountability partner 6) get mad at fear Cortisol + noradrenaline they create uneasy feeling at start

The more something threatens your identity more you will avoid doing it

2) release phase

3) flow

Do what you love Flow healthy life

4) Recovery

Embrace struggle

+Optimal learning strategy

80/20 20 percentage of action leads to 80percent result

Parkinson's law Works expands to fill the time given

Set Tight deadlines are necessary to get best out of you

Blooms taxonomy School learning system is failing

Creating - is the most efficient way to learn something followed by Evaluating, Analyzing, Applying, Understanding Remember (passive Learning, bad approach)

Behavioursm Surrounding yourself with talented and knowledgeable person

Conitivismks Find connection between what you know and new learning helps strengthen neuro transmitters Develop your mindset, common people think they can't be good at maths, but its not correct Keep reading and learning makes you strong

Constructivism Passive reading and listening to video is not efficient way of learning, create something out of your learning : most impotant - start with complex problem and on the way to resolve that learn basics

+Optimal Learning Techniques

Retrieval Practice Distributed practice Reasearch has shown that when learning is distributed uniformly across week brings more learning. You need to space out your practice session across days intead of all at once in one day Practice test Reasearch shows taking practice test aftrer chapters is more effective than revising Also you can find a study partner and ask questions to each other.

Inter leaved practice Mixing several types of items while practicing . Block practicing - example in badminton if you try different types of serve instead of just doing one service at time brings better results in long term Elaborative intervention Ask why intead of what The more learning hooks you create more space will form for new learning

Self explanattion Explain to yourself with efforts. So that brai. Can remember it.explain to urself as if prac

Lifetayle Improve sleep quality

Excerise Balances neurotransmitter Increase brain volume Smoking= sitting Walking+ audiobooks great combination

Fasting Produces energy Improve memory It takes a while for body to adapylt 5:2 fasting - eat 300k cals on 2 days of fasting,

Meditation It physically change brain structure It Increase grey matter IncreAses volume of cerebral 8 weeks of daily meditation enhance brain size Stress in induced by own though- Meditation helps Placebo effect. Attention and working memory increased in 12 weeks of meditation

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