Top 34 Barbara Oakley Quotes
#2. If you'd like to see how to apply these ideas directly to memorizing formulas, try out the SkillsToolbox website for a list of easy-to-remember visuals for mathematical symbols.7
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#3. You want your brain to become used to the idea that just knowing how to use a particular problem-solving technique isn't enough - you also need to know when to use it.
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#4. Einstellung effect (pronounced EYE-nshtellung). In this phenomenon, an idea you already have in mind, or your simple initial thought, prevents a better idea or solution from being found.
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#5. This approach [solving easiest problems first, during the test] works for some people, mostly because anything works for some people.
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#6. whatever you're learning, see whether you can make a metaphor to help yourself understand the most difficult topic - you'll be surprised at how much it can bring the key idea to life.
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#7. It's normal to sit down with a few negative feelings about beginning your work. It's how you handle those feelings that matters.
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#8. This is precisely why one significant mistake students sometimes make in learning math and science is jumping into the water before they learn to swim.
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#9. Procrastination expert Rita Emmett explains: "The dread of doing a task uses up more time and energy than doing the task itself.
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#10. If you don't make a point of repeating what you want to remember, your "metabolic vampires" can suck away the neural pattern related to that memory before it can strengthen and solidify.
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#11. Tomorrow is another day, we rather hope it will be better but better it won't be unless self-foibles are examined.
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#12. Procrastination is like addiction. It offers temporary excitement and relief from boring reality.
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#13. Attempting to recall the material you are trying to learn - retrieval practice - is far more effective than simply rereading the material.
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#14. If you protect your routine, eventually it will protect you.
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#15. Habit is an energy saver for us. It allows us to free our mind for other types of activities.
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#16. Persistence is often more important than intelligence. Approaching material with a goal of learning it on your own gives you a unique path to mastery.
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#17. Multitasking means that you are not able to make full, rich connections in your thinking, because the part of your brain that helps make connections is constantly being pulled away before neural connections can be firmed up.
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#18. Internalizing problem-solving techniques enhances the neural activity that allows you to more easily hear the whispers of your growing intuition. When you know - really know - how to solve a problem just by looking at it, you've created a commanding chunk that sweeps like a song through your mind.
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#19. Process, Not Product If you find yourself avoiding certain tasks because they make you uncomfortable, there is a great way to reframe things: Learn to focus on process, not product
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#20. Welcome to the psychiatric hotline: if you are obsessive compulsive press one repeatedly. If you are schizophrenic listen closely and a little voice will tell you which number to press. If you have borderline personality disorder hang up; you have already pushed everybody's buttons.
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#21. The Law of Serendipity: Lady Luck favors the one who tries
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#23. Complex training environments such as action video game play may actually foster brain plasticity and learning.
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#24. The trick to overwriting a habit is to look for the pressure point - your reaction to a cue. The only place you need to apply willpower is to change your reaction to the cue.
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#25. Focus on the process (the way you spend your time) instead of the product (what you want to accomplish).
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#26. Over the past decades, students who have blindly followed their passion, without rational analysis of whether their choice of career truly was wise, have been more unhappy with their job choices than those who coupled passion with rationality.
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#27. Psychopaths know intellectually what is immoral they just don't have a feeling of immorality about it.
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#28. Just focus on whatever section you are studying. You'll find that once you put the first problem or concept in your library, whatever it is, then the second concept will go in a bit more easily. And the third more easily still. Not that all of this is a snap, but it does get easier.
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#29. Focused problem solving in math and science is often more effortful than focused-mode thinking involving language and people.
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#30. The biggest lie ever is that practice makes perfect. Not true - practice makes you better.
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#31. Remember, research has shown that the more effort you put into recalling material, the deeper it embeds itself into your memory.
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#32. I think most clearly when I'm driving. Sometimes I'll just take a break and drive around - this helps a lot.
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#33. There is a deep connection between technical, scientific, and artistic creativity.
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#34. Remember, habits are powerful because they create neurological cravings. It helps to add a new reward if you want to overcome your previous cravings. Only once your brain starts expecting the reward will the important rewiring take place that will allow you to create new habits.
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