Outsmart Your Mind to Make Learning Easier with Dan Willingham • 297
Mind Love™ • Consciousness, Spirituality, and Science for Awakening
Melissa Monte | Conscious Coach
4.9 • 908 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
We will learn:
- Why we remember some things and forget others.
- How your listening type determines how to process information and how to reduce mind-wandering.
- A new understanding of procrastination and how to overcome it.
Have you ever wondered why some people seem to learn and retain information so much faster and easier than others? Why some people can breeze through books and lectures while others can't stay focused for a full paragraph?
It's also our ability to focus. Which is something that I think our current ways of life are starting to destroy. Focus works kind of like a muscle. Use it or lose it.
So the less we're willing to practice and engage in learning, the harder it will be, and the harder it is, the less we want to do it.
But what if there's a way to outsmart your own brain and make learning easier and faster? That's what we're learning about today.
Our guest is Dan Willingham. He is Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia. His research is mostly about the application of cognitive psychology to K-16 education. He is the author of several books, including “Outsmart Your Brain: Why Learning is Hard and How You Can Make it Easy.”
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Mind Love, episode 297. |
| 0:04.0 | Today's episode is all about outsmarting your mind to make learning faster and easier. |
| 0:09.0 | We get these messages when we're children, really about whether or not basically we belong in school. |
| 0:16.0 | Those messages they are really important and continue to be important as when we're adults |
| 0:22.0 | because they speak to how capable we think we are with |
| 0:27.1 | intellectual tasks and when we're on the job how confident we feel about learning something new that comes up, |
| 0:34.6 | looking towards the next opportunity that maybe is going to require, |
| 0:38.9 | you know, is going to have a learning curve associated with it. |
| 0:41.2 | How confident are we that we can take that on. But self-image is, I've |
| 0:46.4 | been emphasizing sort of the feedback you get and especially how that feedback is interpreted for you by people you respect. |
| 0:56.0 | Turn up your frequency with mind love. |
| 1:02.0 | Bight-sized brain hacks for seekers, dreamers, and doers. |
| 1:06.0 | It's time to give your mind a little love |
| 1:09.0 | with your host, Melissa Monti. If this is your first time giving your mind a little love, don't forget to hit the subscribe button. Mind love is a habit and the more you give your mind that love and intention, the better you'll feel about yourself and your life. Plus, it's really a win-win because more subscribers means mind love |
| 1:34.6 | attracts even more amazing guests to bring you their wisdom. So don't forget |
| 1:38.8 | to subscribe. Have you ever wondered why some people seem to learn and retain information so much faster and easier than other people? |
| 1:47.0 | Why some people can just breeze through books and lectures while others can't stay focused for a full paragraph? |
| 1:54.0 | If I've learned anything in the last five years of hosting Mind Love, |
| 1:58.0 | it's that what we believe about ourselves pretty much determines what we're capable of. |
| 2:03.7 | And most of our self-beliefs are created during childhood. |
| 2:07.3 | This goes back to research on growth mindsets versus fixed mindsets. |
| 2:11.5 | For example, one study found that children who were praised for their effort |
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