Week 1.

Introduction to the Focused and Diffuse Modes

Incidentally, both metaphor and analogy are really helpful when you’re trying to learn something new.

So how are you going to develop that new thought in the first place?

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Diffuse Model: you can look at things broadly from a very different, big-picture perspective. You can make new neural connections traveling along new pathways. You can at least get to the initial place you need to be in to home in on a solution.

Focused Model: You can focus in as tightly as you often do to finalize any kind of problem solving. Understand the finest aspects of a concept.

This raises a puzzle. In the face of so much turnover, how do memories stay stable over so many years?

This raises a puzzle: 这就导致了一个问题

In the face of: 面对

This illustrates that, intriguingly(有趣地 /ɪnˈtriːɡɪŋli/ ) that you are not the same person you were after a night’s sleep or even a nap.

In the first week, you will learn how to take advantage of your unconscious mind and also sleep to make every things easier.

A procrastination preview

In this episode, we’re going to give you a litter insight into procrastination. Why it raises, and a powerful little tool to help you address it.

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funnel: 漏斗，通过漏斗，传送，传输

A handy little mental tool: Pomodoro(番茄钟)

How to use Pomodoro?

set a timer to 25 mins.
turn off all the interruptions
focus!
gain your reward!

That’s it!

It’s a little like doing an intense 25 minute workout at a mental gym, followed by some mental relaxation.

Practice Makes Permanent

But let’s back up a step. (退一步讲)

At least in part. (至少有一部分)

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Neurons become linked together through repeated use. The more abstract something is, the more important it is to practice in order to bring those ideas into reality for you.

bring sth. into reality for you. 为你所用

If you don’t do this (means have a short break afte a tense focus working), if instead you learn by cramming (填鸭式的), your knowledge base will all in a jumble (乱七八糟) with everything confused, a poor foundation.

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Introduction of Memory

Working memory

Is the part of memory that has to do with what you’re immediately and consciously processing in your mind.
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7 chunks or 4 chunks of information

Long term memory

It’s distribute over a big area.
Different kinds of long term memories are stored in different regions of the brain.

Technique: spaced repetition