Welcome to the not old better Show on your host, Paul Holger's Day.

Our guest today, Dr. Barbara Oakley, didn't begin learning remedial high school algebra until age 26.

Now, she's a professor of engineering,

a New York Times best-selling author,

an instructor of one of the world's most popular massive open online courses,

learning how to learn with nearly 2 million registered students.

How did this happen? As part of our

Smithsonian Associates Art of Living and newest inside science programming we

are joined today via Skype with Dr. Barbara Oakley. Dr Oakley will be

appearing at the Smithsonian Associates Program October 18th at the Baird Auditorium

where she'll use metaphor, analogy, and prime neural circuits to discuss difficult topics,

and Dr. Oakley will explain how to learn more effectively, drawing on her experience as both an engineering

professor and a linguist as well as from key research findings in cognitive

psychology and neuroscience. We're going to have a lot of fun that evening.

We're going to be learning about behind the scenes insights on how the world's largest course on learning how to learn was created and how it's become the 2 million strong

Leviathan it's become today. We'll talk about all sorts of insights from

neuroscience that can be practically useful in helping you to learn.

And those include things like how chunking occurs, how to create these patterns that you can instantly call to mind to become an expert in any subject

and also all sorts of other great insights that you probably haven't been aware of before. That of course was our guest today Dr Barbara Oakley who all welcome to the

not old better show immediate well Dr Barbaraley, welcome to the show.

Oh, it's a great pleasure to be here, Paul.

I'll tell you, it's a pleasure for me too.

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