Learning how to learn

Inspired by the Coursera course, Learning How to Learn, by Dr. Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski

This is a small personal project, I try to summary the knowledges, methods, tools of how to learn new knowledge or skills.  Hopefully it could help, inspire and encourage other people with their learning by my path and experiences.

Our brain has different working modes: Focused and Diffuse [1]. A good learner doesn’t need be hard working all the time but shall regularly have pauses. Our brain still continues working and processing even when we are not really “studying”: having a nice warm shower, doing regular physical exercises, evening during daydreaming. We shall not deprive sleeping time, neither work up too late, since good rest is as an important factor while learning. [2]

I now have a more reasonable and scientific view of Procrastination. Human brain is smart enough to move our focus to comfort us, but also fool to create the illusions of things have been done. [3] Concentrate on the process not product by divide a whole big project into smaller sections, like what I have used for this project; take first the hardest task; give self some nice reward after completing each section are all powerful ways. It is a human self-created mechanism and it could be a long term to deal with Procrastination. I am not afraid, ignoring, or beaten down by it. We might not eliminate totally; a better way is to live together with this problem. [4]

It also requires courage, honesty and self-awareness when we want to learn any new knowledge or new skills. Repeat the same level tests wo