LEARN HOW TO LEARN & DISCOVER YOUR HIDDEN POTENTIAL!!! Barbara Oakley, PhD | Health | Inspiration | Self-Help | Inspire
Inspire Nation Show with Michael Sandler
Michael Sandler
4.7 • 974 Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2017
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
If you've ever wanted to re-invent yourself (at any age) learn a new skill, start a new career, or simply expand your mind, then today's Mindshift show with Dr. Barbara Oakley, teacher of the world's most popular online class "Learn How to Learn" is for you!!!
Today we'll be talking about Mindshifts, or how to shift your mind to a new perspective, or direction, to truly reinvent yourself in life.
We'll talk about her re-inventions, from studying Russian, joining the army, working a radio in the south pole, and going to back to school, after flunking math through high school, to become an engineer!
And we'll talk about how you can learn how to learn and make a mindshift to do or become anything you want in life!!!
Shift Your Mind Shift Your Life Topics Self-Improvement & Self-Help Topics Include:
- How'd she end up on her career path from the army to Russia to the South Pole and on to engineering—after having flunked high school math!
- What is a massive online class and what does it have to do with Mindshifting?
- What's it mean to Mindshift?
- What's the pomodoro technique and how does it help you learn or focus?
- What are different types of meditation for learning?
- What is self-monitoring and how can we use it to mindshift?
- What's the importance of small mental chunks?
- How did she retrain her brain from Mathphobe to professor of engineering?
- How do we completely retrain the brain?
- What's the importance of leisure activities for the brain?
- What's the importance of applying metpahors to concepts we've just learned?
- What's the importance of second-skilling?
- What are a few key mindshifts that enhance learning?
- What is a mind-map and why's it so valuable?
- What's it mean to switch back and forth between focused mode and diffuse mode?
- What can we learn from the Father of Brain Plasticity Dr. Michael Merzenich?
- What's the importance of doing something novel?
- What's the importance of getting outside of our comfort zone?
- Can the brain shift at any age?
- What do we need to know about massive online classes?
- What one homework assignment should we begin today to shift our minds and chase our dreams?
- How do we help kids learn how to learn?
- To find out more go to: BarbaraOakley.com
Dr. Barbara Oakley on How to Discover Your Hidden Potential & Reinvent Yourself By Learning How to Learn! Health | Inspiration | Motivation | Spiritual | Spirituality | Meditation | Inspirational | Motivational | Self-Improvement | Self-Help | Inspire
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone welcome to Inspire Nation a daily show where we help you discover |
| 0:10.7 | your inner passion overcome life's greatest challenges and to shine |
| 0:14.8 | bright. I'm your host Michael Sandler along with my wife and co-host Jessica Lee |
| 0:19.9 | you'll get expert heartfelt advice from leading authors, athletes and doctors, |
| 0:24.6 | along with spiritual masters, peaceful warriors, and beaming beacons of light. |
| 0:29.5 | Plus you'll find guided meditations to help you through your day and on your way from some of the top |
| 0:34.9 | meditation experts and spiritual masters out there. |
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| 1:05.0 | Woo! |
| 1:07.0 | Special announcement. |
| 1:11.0 | We have a special announcement. |
| 1:13.0 | As you may have heard, Jessica and I are moving. |
| 1:15.0 | Woo! |
| 1:16.0 | But in the midst of the move, we're working on a super secret hush-hush book. |
| 1:20.0 | Which, by announcing it here, isn't so super secret anymore. |
| 1:24.0 | We're writing a book on my all-time favorite tool for tapping into your intuition, automatic |
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