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Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
4.8

13,218 reviews

Beginner level
No prior experience required
Flexible schedule
1 week at 10 hours a week
Learn at your own pace

There are 4 modules in this course

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 videosTotal 77 minutes
  • 1-1 Introduction – About Mindshift6 minutes
  • 1-2 The Value of Being a Slow Learner4 minutes
  • 1-3 From Passive to Active8 minutes
  • 1-4 The Value of Your Past7 minutes
  • 1-5 Mastery Learning7 minutes
  • 1-6 Focused Versus Diffuse – Furthering Your Understanding6 minutes
  • 1-7 Should You Listen to Music When You're Studying?1 minute
  • 1-8 Learning Something Hard? The Coffee Shop Trick6 minutes
  • 1-9 Your environment affects who you are6 minutes
  • 1-10 The Changing World – Matching Aspirations with Opportunity6 minutes
  • 1-11 Natural Passions, Career Choice, and Gender4 minutes
  • 1-12 How to Remember More: AI-Powered Flashcards with Spaced Repetition7 minutes
  • 1-13 Week 1 Wrap Up3 minutes
  • Optional Bonus Video: Nelson Dellis Memory Tips #16 minutes
1 readingTotal 10 minutes
  • Guidance in Applying for Continuing Education or Professional Development Credit10 minutes
1 assignmentTotal 30 minutes
  • Week 130 minutes
1 peer reviewTotal 60 minutes
  • A first look in the mirror60 minutes
3 discussion promptsTotal 30 minutes
  • The unexpected assets from your past--and breaking through initial feelings of incompetence10 minutes
  • Favorite places to study, and helpful study apps10 minutes
  • Your challenge10 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 videosTotal 86 minutes
  • 2-1 Week 2 Introduction1 minute
  • 2-2 The Value of a Poor Memory6 minutes
  • 2-3 Meditation and Mindfulness – What to Look for4 minutes
  • 2-4 The Pomodoro Technique as Working Meditation7 minutes
  • 2-5 Getting Past Procrastination8 minutes
  • 2-6 The Value of Procedural Fluency and Deliberate Practice7 minutes
  • 2-7 Bad Grades and Barb's Hands – The Value of Mental Tricks4 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 Brain5 minutes
  • 2-12 Week 2 Wrap Up4 minutes
  • Optional Bonus Video: Interview with Singapore Entrepreneur Adam Khoo21 minutes
  • Optional Bonus Video: Nelson Dellis Memory Tips #24 minutes
1 assignmentTotal 30 minutes
  • Week 230 minutes
1 discussion promptTotal 10 minutes
  • Overcoming cognitive distortions10 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 videosTotal 65 minutes
  • 3-1 Week 3 Introduction1 minute
  • 3-2 Passion and Work Part 14 minutes
  • 3-3 Passion and Work Part 25 minutes
  • 3-4 Passion and Work Part 36 minutes
  • 3-5 Mindshifting – What to Do in the Face of Opposition6 minutes
  • 3-6 General Competence versus Selective Ignorance3 minutes
  • 3-7 The Value of Feeling Like an Imposter3 minutes
  • 3-8 Avoiding Career Ruts and Surviving Career Catastrophes4 minutes
  • 3-9 Bad Traits as Best Traits4 minutes
  • 3-10 The Intelligence of Emotions7 minutes
  • 3-11 Week 3 Wrap Up4 minutes
  • Optional Bonus Video: Nelson Dellis Memory Tips #39 minutes
  • Optional Bonus Video: Nelson Dellis Memory Tips #4 Remembering Names & Faces9 minutes
1 assignmentTotal 30 minutes
  • Week 330 minutes
1 peer reviewTotal 60 minutes
  • A heart-to-heart talk with friends60 minutes
2 discussion promptsTotal 20 minutes
  • Hidden talents10 minutes
  • The good side of "bad" traits10 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 videosTotal 72 minutes
  • 4-1 Week 4 Introduction1 minute
  • 4-2 Why Should You Keep Learning?5 minutes
  • 4-3 MOOC Tips Part 1 – How to Get the Most from MOOCs4 minutes
  • 4-4 Dirty Little Secrets of Traditional vs Massive Online Teaching4 minutes
  • 4-5 A Visit to Barb's Basement: The Secret Sauce of Learning How to Learn6 minutes
  • 4-6 MOOC Tips Part 2 – Looking More Deeply Into Quality Learning4 minutes
  • 4-7 Mentors in Your Life6 minutes
  • 4-8 Read, Read, Read4 minutes
  • 4-9 Surviving in the New Information Economy5 minutes
  • 4-10 Week 4 Wrap Up3 minutes
  • 4-11 Finale: Discovering Your Hidden Potential5 minutes
  • Optional Bonus Video: Nelson Dellis Memory Tips #5 Language Learning11 minutes
  • Memory Tips: Nelson Dellis on How to Memorize a Speech or a Script14 minutes
1 readingTotal 5 minutes
  • Please Rate this Course on Class Central5 minutes
1 assignmentTotal 30 minutes
  • Final Examination30 minutes
3 discussion promptsTotal 30 minutes
  • Best MOOCs and best MOOC-making!10 minutes
  • Favorite book or author10 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!

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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.

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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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