SNR #188: Barbara Oakley, PhD - How to Learn, Study & Get Better With Science

Sigma Nutrition Radio

Danny Lennon

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🗓️ 20 July 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Barbara Oakley is a Professor of Engineering at Oakland University. She is involved in multiple areas of research, ranging from STEM education, to Engineering education, to learning practices.

Most recently, Professor Oakley has co-created and taught Learning How To Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects, the world's most popular online course. She also has written a number of books, including: 'A Mind For Numbers' and 'Mindshift'.

In This Episode We Discuss:

Focused mode vs. diffuse mode for thinking, problem solving and working
Environments for productive learning: distractions, timelines and procrastination
"Neural chunking" and creating patterns for developing skills
Preventing regression of knowledge and skill acquisition
Advice for improving scientific literacy/proficiency and confidence in reading/understanding science
How to soak up (and retain) more information from podcasts

Transcript

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0:00.0	The best thing you know of now is when you are doing something like a Pomodoro, and you plan in a reward for yourself at the end.
0:17.0	Anticipating a reward helps you to enjoy the process of focusing more.
0:25.1	So as much as actually getting the reward, anticipating the reward helps that activity
0:32.3	prior to you getting the reward to be more pleasurable.
0:36.2	So by planning in that you get a little reward,
0:39.3	you get to do something you like,
0:42.3	it can help you so you learn to like,
0:46.3	focus on better. Hello and welcome to another episode of Sigma Nutrition Radio.
1:09.6	As always, I am your host, Danny Lennon, and we are at episode
1:13.5	188 of the podcast. And before we get into this week's interview, just a quick announcement
1:20.7	again to remind you guys who may be interested in enrolling for the upcoming intake of Mac Nutrition Uni, which is the UK's only
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1:40.6	discount as a Sigma Nutrition listener by using a special discount code, which you can
1:47.2	get full details about the course, the course options, the different frequently asked questions,
1:51.7	and details of your special discount code over the link Sigma Nutrition.com slash MNU. So if you go to sigmautrition.com slash MNU,
2:03.3	you'll get all the information you need about McNutrition Uni. So on to today's episode.
2:09.9	And in just a moment, I'm going to be joined by Dr. Barbara Oakley, who is a professor of engineering
2:16.5	at Oakland University and has a really
2:20.3	interesting background in that during her early years, was actually not very good at mathematics
2:28.1	and science and found those subjects particularly difficult. And during her 20ss ended up spending some time trying to
2:36.8	see how she could effectively learn more about engineering and physics and science even though she
2:44.7	had previously thought she was bad at these things and learned quite a bit about how she went about
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