About Learning How To Learn

In this World we Live In, we are always learning new stuff, getting new knowledge, learning new skills and almost everyone studies to develop a career.

Recently, I've been doing an Online Course (MOOC) in Coursera (check the link) that is helping me a lot on my recently started 3D Studies.

I will briefly summ up what I have learn't from this awesome course:

1. The Brain has two main Learning (or problem Solving) Methods:
• The Focused Mode: Uses neural patterns (or pathways ) from previously acquired knowledge to solve a problem or create something. 
• When you are sitting studying,
• When you are sitting playing video games
• When you are sitting working
• When you are trying to solve an IT issue (like the guy below)
• Easily affected by procastination (check below on an awesome technique provided by the awesome Dr. Barbara Oakley on how to tackle procastination).
  
  
• The Diffuse Mode: The diffuse mode is a relaxed mental state where the brain keeps working to solve problems. Examples:

• When you are sleeping,
• When you are chilling out in the beach,
• When you are going for a walk,
• When you are riding a bus back to your home,
• When you are cycling around the city,
• The diffuse mode is needed for new neural patterns to build strong foundations and to get embedded in the brain so they can be used in the focused mode. 
2.  The Brain has two types of memory: 
• Long Term Memory: The long term memory is where your regular neural pathways are stored, it can be associated with a gian warehouse where you keep everything you need, and where you go to pick it when you are going to use it. Think of it also as the Kitchen pantry where you grba ingredients to cook something specifically.
• Short Therm Memory: The short term memory, or Working Memory is the one used as the working tool, think of as the ingredients you just got from the pantry and you are using correctly, these are the ones you need and thus the only ones you are using.
• Uses pre-frontal cortex
• Holds 4 memory chunks at the same time
• Is what you are immediately working on.
• Both types are correlated, let's say the Working Memory is the tool used to handle Long Term Memory.  
• Sleeping: According to research Sleeping lets your brain wash away the toxins generated in daily activity and also helps build new and more strong neural structures.

Stay Tunned for more information to come!

Make sure you get good sleep and get some rest after some hard study!