Wk 1- Diffused Mode

Monday, August 01, 2016

2:57 PM

Difference between focused and diffused mode

Focused mode

Diffused mode

Old learning

New learning

Light on broad area

Light on narrow area

Tight spaced bumpers and helps concentrate

Neural growth = Muscular growth

Just like the way for muscular growth we need to train every day little bit, for neural growth we need to train
everyday

Working memory to Long term

Working memory
Pre frontal cortex
4 chunks
By repetition with time, we move the item to Long term memory
Spaced repetitions .Not a good idea to repeat on a single day as it is difficult to build the neural structure in a
single day.

Learning abstract things

Practice and repetition strengthens to learn something new.

Sleep

Staying awake creates Toxins. Sleep washes away toxins. It erases less important things and strengthens important
things.
When we are stuck in a problem or unsure about something, instead of focusing on the issue ,let things settle
down for neural processing to happen at the background.

Dr Terrence Sejnowski.

Brainfacts.org

How to learn something new

BY Practical experience

Boring lecture, what to do

Ask Q

How to take advantage of diffused

mode

Jogging and exercise

How to multitask

Multi task is context switching. You cannot multi-task, rather it requires

training

How do you apply your neural

network environment

1. Have a stimulating and rich environment is helpful rather than locking

yourself in a room
2. In absence of rich environment, exercising helps to grow new neurons.

More effective techniques to focus or Being in a creative environment boosts the creative process.
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How to be better test takers

Dont be stuck up on a single problem. You can always come back

How to keep up with the creative

process

Having youth around helps.

Success does not necessarily come with smartness. Lot of success comes
with passionate and persistence .

We ordinarily think of learning as something we do when we sit down to study a book. But actually, being able to
learn more easily and deeply involves many important facets--including not only periods of focused concentration,
but also periods of relaxation, and even times when the body is simply out getting exercise. Your brain can be busy
figuring things out during times when you have absolutely no conscious awareness of it.
About Writing

Separate thinking from editing.

Diffused mode is thinking and it is creative. While editing mode is concentrated.
Use mind maps in a horizontal sheet . Write all that comes in mind without editing.

Creativity & Learning with Dr. Robert Bilder

Though something is done in the world, when we do it ourselves it still enhances our creativity.
When learn something new and speaking publicly about it, we are criticized.
Leadership is the ability to disguise panic. It may only be through repeated experience that one learns how to
cope with that a little bit better.
The only advice I can give to others is to always adopt the same kind of curiosity about your own
shortcomings and your own difficulty getting the big picture and understanding the entire scope of the
problem that you would apply to others and to, to any problem in general. Ie Be willing to accept some
discomfort sometimes.
Some people would say that it's only when you experience some discomfort that you're actually

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 Some people would say that it's only when you experience some discomfort that you're actually
accomplishing some kind of change. So, to the extent that one wants to make progress, it's necessarily going
to involve some degree of discomfort.
Openness and non-agreement/non-conformism ,those who challenge the status-quo, has a positive correlation
with creativity.
It is important to find the fine line between being agreeable and disagreeable. whatever the product is, to be
considered creative has to be new. But then it also has to be useful or valued by someone. So, this involves a
kind of attention between doing something that may be totally driven by your own vision of things, and
those things that are going to end up being adopted or used by others. So it means that you can create things
that may be novel, wonderful, and strange. But if they're too novel, too strange, then they're not going to be
considered wonderful by others. So finding this sweet spot in the range between what you find to be the
newest and most valuable and exciting. And what others believe is I think that's a lifelong process of, of
deliberation and balance.
Best learning techniques
Power of 10 exercise. Zooming in and Zooming out (what is the big picture , why am I doing it) while solving
things
Using a combination of verbal and visual styles.

About Learning new languages.

Children tend not to be perfectionist. However adults are conscious of mistakes. Children are not over analyzing
about mistakes. Being willing to make mistake and learning from my mistake.
Try different techniques while learning a new language.

Use Promodoro technique for intense focus.

Use both diffused learning and focused learning to learn new things.
Zoom in and out while learning
Practice and spaced repetitions should be used for abstract learning
Sleeping, stimulating environment and exercising are very important for learning and creativity

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