“We are all born gifted. There is no failure, there are only

Hello There,

Attached you will find a summary of a book I read recently.

These chapters highlight the importance of multitasking, the importance placed on education and learning styles around the globe. I feel this author has placed a large importance on education for progress. How Barbara has placed emphasis on learning through various avenues in life, is illuminating.

Personally, thank you Barb.

Enjoy!

Chapter 1 – Transformed

A Chapter based on the basis of Skill Development of Graham Kiers. The driving forth of her career was the basis of the personal reliance on the ability to manifest a goal that was presented as a solution to a problem.

Pomodoro Technique: Using a 25 minute focused and 5 minutes diffuse/rest.

Key Mindshift – The Value of A Beginners Mind

• Learning something new sometimes means stepping back to a novice level, but it can be a thrilling adventure. 

Chapter 2 – Learning Isn’t Studying

This chapter draws focus to the personal life of Claudia, this is an individual that is seeking to prompt a change in her life as she learns moving & seeking gratification to avoid immediate unlearning doesn’t work.

Key Mindshift – Excercise

• Powerful enhancement for any mental short you want to make in your life. Commitment followed through with exercise has great benefits for learning and mood.

Chapter 3 – Changing Cultures

Ali Naqvi changed his personal life pursuits that led him towards entrepreneurship in place of his dreams to be a Pro-Golfer.

Key Mindshift – Deliberate Practice of Little Chunks of Learning

• Practice and repeat little chunks of learning over the course of several days. This will create the neural patterns that underlie your gradually growing expertise. The more difficult the little chunks are to learn, the more deeply you learn the more rapidly your expertise will grow.

Key Mindshift – Switching Disciplines or Careers Brings Value

• It’s normal to feel inadequate when you might begin trying to understand a new subject or broaden to change a career. Even though you are doing what is difficult, you are bringing fresh perspectives to studies and work. Not useful only to colleagues, it can freshen your personal outlook.

Chapter 4 – Your “Useless” Past Can Be An Advantage

Tanja’s cheerful attitude, coupled with her no-nonsense abilities to take charge in the new online world the university was moving, despite a formal degree in similar education made Tanja a good worker.

Key Mindshift – The Value of Hobbies

• Hobbies often bring valuable mental flexibility, and insight. If you are lucky. These insights can spill over and enhance your job. But even if they don’t, your brain may be getting a workout.

Key Mindshift – The Value of Career Catastrophes

• Those with broad experience in the working world often observe being forced to leave a job makes people far happier with their new job than the old –  No matter how impossible this might initially seem.

Chapter 5 – Rewriting Rules

Zach Careers dropped out of his personal life course planned from high school, moving abroad and learning to apply his skills to develop real skill sets.

Key Mindshift – Sometimes the lonely Path of The Creative

• Sometimes creativity can leave you feeling out of step with those around you. “Marching to beat of different drums.” Have these pronounced feelings, know you are not alone.

Key Mindshift – Avoid Fooling Yourself

• Can feel certain that our approach is correct that we don’t examine other possibilities. Part of learning well is being able to remain open to others’ ideas and to intentionally work to create situations where we can discover whether we are wrong.

Chapter 6 – Singapore

Patrick Tay Hard scrabbled life coming from a place in life where being a policeman was not the solution for his passion. Helping people “upskill.”

Tripartisan: Joining of Minds among government unions, and business employers.

Pi: Approach to career building two areas of deep knowledge, balanced by modicum (Small balance of something extremely important)

T: Traditional knowledge + ability in other areas.

Key Mindshift – Second- Skilling

• Second-Skilling is a good idea in today’s swiftly changing careers environment. A second skill can allow you to be more nimble if the unexpected arises in your day job.

Key Mindshift – Significant Change is Possible

• It’s easy to fall into a rut, of thinking that you can only do what you’ve done in the past. But enormous change + growth is possible if you open your mind to the potential.

Key Mindshift – Fostering a Learning Lifestyle

• A learning lifestyle is something that can be nurtured and grown in communities, nations, and cultures.

Chapter 7 – Leveling the Educational Playing Field

Adam Khoo a fighter with attention deficit. Founder of Largest multimillion education firm.

“We are all born gifted. There is no failure, there are only learning experiences.”

1. Create vivid mind-map sketches that bring the material to life.
2. Memorize by using visual association.
3. Use pockets of time that are often neglected, such as sitting on a bus.
4. Practice over and over again until you can work a tough problem.
5. Visualize your successful future with whatever you are learning. 

Key Mindshift – Develop Neural Chunks through Deliberate Practice

• Whenever you are trying to learn a difficult new topic to skill, focus on deliberate practice with the toughest parts of the material.
• Break whatever you are doing into tiny chunks
• Practice that chunk of “neural chunk” call to mind + accomplish easily
• Re-practicing for ease + “feel good” (confidence building) keep the bulk of your focus + practice what you find most difficult.

“You suffer from paralysis of analysis if you only think w/o doing.”

Diffuse Mode: “Resting states.”

Working Memory: Ability to manage more keeps mind in a capable state of seeing more.

Less Working Memory: Are more capable of seeing “shortcuts”

• Based on basic emotions: Anger, Fear, Disgust, and Happiness
• More working memory based thought yield support of non-creative thinking.

Potential:

• Do you feel that people have a “True Potential” that others should support no matter what?
• Should others’ considerations be taken into account when you are planning a significant mind shift? If so, how strongly?
• Should the reality of the working world be a factor in your mind shift? If so, how strongly?
• Do you have a weakness you can change into a strength? How can you accomplish this?

Chapter 8 – Avoiding Career Ruts & Dead Ends

“Intelligence required for the field but it wasn’t enough.” – Terry Sejnowski

Key Mindshift – Selective Ignorance

• You only have so much so much cognitive energy. Be selective about what you choose to become expert in – you don’t want to be typecast as an expert in areas you don’t want to spend your time on.

Key Mindshift – Learning New Disciplines Takes Time

• Learning something new + difficult, explore boot camp-like experience to make new connections and immerse yourself in the new ideas. No matter how smart you may be, give yourself the time you need to truly learn the discipline.

Context Settings:

• Leave: If the situation is Toxic, “damn the torpedoes” and remove yourself from it. This was the approach Zach Caceres took dropping from high school.
• Double Life: Live double life, stimulating the old lifestyle + interests while developing new interests on the side. The approach worked for Graham Keir + Terry Sejnowski – prevented each from getting into a situation where others could continually argue against a switch.
• Contrarians:  Take pride in being a contrarian. The more other say you will fail, more it will bolster your internal resolve.

Key Mindshift – Comfort Zones + Synaptic Reserves

• Day to Day activities as simple as talking, knitting, or shooting hoops keeps us in a mental as well physical shape by retaining abilities we already have. But when we go to a bit beyond our familiar comfort zone by learning something that challenges us, helping build synaptic reserves.

Chapter 9 – Derailed Dreams Lead to New Dreams

• Feeling like a Fraud: “Despite outstanding academic + professional accomplishment women who experience imposter syndrome persist believing that they are really not bright + have fooled anyone who thinks otherwise.”

“Emotionally Harmful way of framing emotions.”

Imposter Activity:

Write this word and make two columns one for Pro the other for Con.

Write out thoughts related to this idea.

Chapter 10 – Turning Midlife Crisis Into a Midlife Opportunity

Arnim Rodeck had learning difficulty throughout his educational career, compromising his previous ineptitudes, which were reframed as a new challenge better geared to accomplish his goals.

Key Mindshift – Background Noise

• A little intermittent background noise can allow us to more easily alternate between focused modes. This is especially useful with leaning encompassed with new concepts approaches of perspectives.

Key Mindshift – Mentors

• Mentors can be invaluable in your career and personal development. People don’t need to even know that you consider them to be mentors for them to be of value in your life. Look for ways to make yourself somehow useful to the mentor, just as they are for you, to make such relationships flourish.  

Chapter 11 – Value of Online Learning + MOOCs

Key Mindshift – Value of Opportunities to Learn

• Consider learning opportunities as an important factor when making career + job decisions. How supportive is the new environment of learning?
• MOOCs to improve the learning or second-skilling to improve a personal knowledge.

Key Mindshift – With New Forms of Learning, You are the Driver

• Remember that the new forms of learning allow you to take charge. MOOCs are an important, new resource for achieving your learning goals, whether they demand technical skills, soft skills even skills in learning itself!

Key Mindshift – Online Learning Provides a Great Path for Renewal

• It can be shocking to realize how high school skills have atrophied or were barely there in the first place. Online learning provides a great way to refresh old learning, skills for critical tests, or gain fundamental skills.

Key Mindshift – Balance

• Life holds many situations too many. Learning opportunities. If you are just getting started in the world of MOOCs, can be addictive. If a subject interests you, may audit a course to browse when + where you want. Common sense to balance learning and certificates with professional obligations + family life.

Chapter 12 – MOOC Making 

Barbara Oakley + Terry Sejnowski on learning how to learn.

Key Mindshift – The Instructor Makes the Difference

• Your first impression about whether an instructor is effective is usually spot on. Look for n instructor who shows unexpected flashes of humour. It’s a clue that you’ll probably enjoy the time you’re putting into learning.

Key Mindshift – Value of Fresh Prespectives

• There can sometimes be great value in striking off on your own and not following traditional approaches. Even though it may be intimidating, look for opportunities to bring your own unique insights + fresh ways of doing things to your work habits.