Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential
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Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential
Instructors: Dr. Terrence Sejnowski
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Mindshift is designed to help boost your career and life in today’s fast-paced learning environment. Whatever your age or stage, Mindshift teaches you essentials such as how to get the most out of online learning and MOOCs, how to seek out and work with mentors, the secrets to avoiding career ruts (and catastrophes) and general ruts in life, and insights such as the value of selective ignorance over general competence. We’ll provide practical insights from science about how to learn and change effectively even in maturity, and we’ll build on what you already know to take your life’s learning in fantastic new directions. This course is designed to show you how to look at what you’re learning, and your place in what’s unfolding in the society around you, so you can be what you want to be, given the real world constraints that life puts on us all. You’ll see that by using certain mental tools and insights, you can learn and do more—far more—than you might have ever dreamed!
This course can be taken independent of, concurrent with, or subsequent to, its companion course, Learning How to Learn. (Mindshift is more career focused, and Learning How to Learn is more learning focused.)
In today's world, change is the only constant. This means that whatever stage you are in life, you need to keep yourself open and able to change. How can you do this? In three ways: Learn more about your hidden capabilities and assets. Learn more about learning effectively. Learn about matching your assets with the opportunities that face you. In this week, we'll dive into these three important areas!
What's included
14 videos1 reading1 assignment1 peer review3 discussion prompts
14 videos•Total 77 minutes
- 1-1 Introduction – About Mindshift•6 minutes
- 1-2 The Value of Being a Slow Learner•4 minutes
- 1-3 From Passive to Active•8 minutes
- 1-4 The Value of Your Past•7 minutes
- 1-5 Mastery Learning•7 minutes
- 1-6 Focused Versus Diffuse – Furthering Your Understanding•6 minutes
- 1-7 Should You Listen to Music When You're Studying?•1 minute
- 1-8 Learning Something Hard? The Coffee Shop Trick•6 minutes
- 1-9 Your environment affects who you are•6 minutes
- 1-10 The Changing World – Matching Aspirations with Opportunity•6 minutes
- 1-11 Natural Passions, Career Choice, and Gender•4 minutes
- 1-12 How to Remember More: AI-Powered Flashcards with Spaced Repetition•7 minutes
- 1-13 Week 1 Wrap Up•3 minutes
- Optional Bonus Video: Nelson Dellis Memory Tips #1•6 minutes
1 reading•Total 10 minutes
- Guidance in Applying for Continuing Education or Professional Development Credit•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Week 1•30 minutes
1 peer review•Total 60 minutes
- A first look in the mirror•60 minutes
3 discussion prompts•Total 30 minutes
- The unexpected assets from your past--and breaking through initial feelings of incompetence•10 minutes
- Favorite places to study, and helpful study apps•10 minutes
- Your challenge•10 minutes
Key to your ability to mindshift is being able to learn effectively. This week, we’ll dive deeper into this vital area. Getting yourself motivated to tackle procrastination can sometimes be a challenge in learning, so we’ll give you some important tips here. But we’ll also give insights into mental tricks to help you focus, relax, and reframe if stress intrudes. We’ll also show you how to avoid common learning pitfalls. Welcome and enjoy!
What's included
14 videos1 assignment1 discussion prompt
14 videos•Total 86 minutes
- 2-1 Week 2 Introduction•1 minute
- 2-2 The Value of a Poor Memory•6 minutes
- 2-3 Meditation and Mindfulness – What to Look for•4 minutes
- 2-4 The Pomodoro Technique as Working Meditation•7 minutes
- 2-5 Getting Past Procrastination•8 minutes
- 2-6 The Value of Procedural Fluency and Deliberate Practice•7 minutes
- 2-7 Bad Grades and Barb's Hands – The Value of Mental Tricks•4 minutes
- 2-8 Learning to Reframe – Put a Label on It!•9 minutes
- 2-9 Integrate All Your Senses Into Learning – The Pitfalls of "Learning Styles"•4 minutes
- 2-10 Can You Try to Learn Too Much?•3 minutes
- 2-11 Your Social Brain•5 minutes
- 2-12 Week 2 Wrap Up•4 minutes
- Optional Bonus Video: Interview with Singapore Entrepreneur Adam Khoo•21 minutes
- Optional Bonus Video: Nelson Dellis Memory Tips #2•4 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Week 2•30 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 10 minutes
- Overcoming cognitive distortions•10 minutes
This week, we’ll be talking about how your own career can develop and change through your life. Your own internal feelings about what you want to do can play a critical role in your long-term happiness. But society and culture can also have a dramatic effect on your career choices and decisions—as can your parents, family, and friends. We’ll talk about second-skilling yourself, and developing a talent stack of average talents that can combine into a formidable asset. We’ll also talk about various tactics and techniques to help you survive career changes and upheavals. Welcome and enjoy!
What's included
13 videos1 assignment1 peer review2 discussion prompts
13 videos•Total 65 minutes
- 3-1 Week 3 Introduction•1 minute
- 3-2 Passion and Work Part 1•4 minutes
- 3-3 Passion and Work Part 2•5 minutes
- 3-4 Passion and Work Part 3•6 minutes
- 3-5 Mindshifting – What to Do in the Face of Opposition•6 minutes
- 3-6 General Competence versus Selective Ignorance•3 minutes
- 3-7 The Value of Feeling Like an Imposter•3 minutes
- 3-8 Avoiding Career Ruts and Surviving Career Catastrophes•4 minutes
- 3-9 Bad Traits as Best Traits•4 minutes
- 3-10 The Intelligence of Emotions•7 minutes
- 3-11 Week 3 Wrap Up•4 minutes
- Optional Bonus Video: Nelson Dellis Memory Tips #3•9 minutes
- Optional Bonus Video: Nelson Dellis Memory Tips #4 Remembering Names & Faces•9 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Week 3•30 minutes
1 peer review•Total 60 minutes
- A heart-to-heart talk with friends•60 minutes
2 discussion prompts•Total 20 minutes
- Hidden talents•10 minutes
- The good side of "bad" traits•10 minutes
In this final week of the course, we'll be exploring how and why to keep yourself in "mindshift" mode. We'll give you all sorts of insider tips on how to pick out the best online learning with materials that are right for you. And we'll also talk about other ways of learning—ways that can make you "the smartest person in the room." Disruption lies ahead in the world—this week, we'll help you seize the advantage. Off we go for our final week of Mindshift!
What's included
13 videos1 reading1 assignment3 discussion prompts
13 videos•Total 72 minutes
- 4-1 Week 4 Introduction•1 minute
- 4-2 Why Should You Keep Learning?•5 minutes
- 4-3 MOOC Tips Part 1 – How to Get the Most from MOOCs•4 minutes
- 4-4 Dirty Little Secrets of Traditional vs Massive Online Teaching•4 minutes
- 4-5 A Visit to Barb's Basement: The Secret Sauce of Learning How to Learn•6 minutes
- 4-6 MOOC Tips Part 2 – Looking More Deeply Into Quality Learning•4 minutes
- 4-7 Mentors in Your Life•6 minutes
- 4-8 Read, Read, Read•4 minutes
- 4-9 Surviving in the New Information Economy•5 minutes
- 4-10 Week 4 Wrap Up•3 minutes
- 4-11 Finale: Discovering Your Hidden Potential•5 minutes
- Optional Bonus Video: Nelson Dellis Memory Tips #5 Language Learning•11 minutes
- Memory Tips: Nelson Dellis on How to Memorize a Speech or a Script•14 minutes
1 reading•Total 5 minutes
- Please Rate this Course on Class Central•5 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Final Examination•30 minutes
3 discussion prompts•Total 30 minutes
- Best MOOCs and best MOOC-making!•10 minutes
- Favorite book or author•10 minutes
- Share your Mindshift!•10 minutes
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Reviewed on Jan 17, 2018
Thank you Barbara. It was really enjoyable trip with you in this course. I have found many new learning techniques. Your positive behavior was very encouraging for me to begin a new list of my life!
Reviewed on Oct 30, 2020
Great course! This is a lot more general than Learning about Learning but is also useful nonetheless. I like the focus on keeping positive and being confident in your potential despite our weaknesses.
Reviewed on Jun 21, 2020
This is a very good course. I love to learn new things and want to learn many this is the course where I learn how to learn many things effectively to make successful my dreams. Than you very much.
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