Learn How To Learn Course by Plato University

 DAY # 4

CREATING A PLAN

1.  Meta-cognition : Thinking about thinking.

2. Where, When, How, Why etc 

3. Research

CLASSICAL EDUCATION (Explore, Engage, Execute)

4. Trivium : (i) Grammar Knowledge [Engine] (ii) Logical understanding [How]  (iii) Rhetoric Wisdom [Beauty]  = Mastery 

5. Download learning plan template 

DAY # 5

GROWTH MINDSET : 

---- "Failure is an opportunity to grow." 

---- "I can learn to do anything I want." 

---- "My effort and attitude determine my abilities."

---- "Feedback is constructive."

---- "I'm inspired by the success of others."

---- "I like to try new things."

FIXED MINDSET

---- "Failure is the limit of my abilities."

---- "I'm either good at it or not."

---- "I can either do it or not."

---- "I do not like to be challenged."

---- "My potential is predetermined."

---- "When I'm frustrated I give up."

---- "Feedback & Criticism are personal."

---- "I stick to what I know."

~ 10,000 Hours 

INTERNAL LOCUS OF CONTROL

---- I get what I deserve

---- I control my destiny 

---- I make things happen

---- My fault

---- I can

EXTERNAL LOCUS OF CONTROL (LOWER LOCUS)

---- I never get what I deserve 

---- My fate is decided 

---- Why me!!!?

---- Not my mistake

---- I can't.

~ Result --) Feedback --) Failure[change your strategy] --) Weakness 

~ Focus the process of your good, not just goal achievement 

DAY # 6

NEED MOTIVATION TO LEARN 

~ Starting with 'WHY'

INTRINSIC MOTIVATION (From within)

---- Autonomy

---- Mastery

---- Purpose 

EXTRINSIC MOTIVATION (From outside)

---- Compensation

---- Punishment 

REWARD 

1. Cognitive evaluation theory :

---- Over justification

---- Why, How, When 

---- Before you start meet the successful people through email

DAY # 7

HOW TO DETERMINE WHAT TO LEARN?

1. LONG TERM GOALS (Being a singer)

2. MILESTONE GOALS 

3. PROCESS GOALS 

MENTAL CONTRASTING : How will your life be when your goal is achieved.

PRESENT TO FUTURE 

---- Set the deadlines 

~ Concept Column : Fact Column : Procedure Column 

~ 80% 20% Principle 

DAY # 8

HOW TO DETERMINE, HOW TO LEARN 

----  Teach others 

---- Which information is to learn 

---- What techniques will I use?

---- Who can help me in learn?

---- How I measure track my process 

---- Specific goal, Specific time 

---- How success would be looklike?

---- You must be detailed 

---- Weakly assessment 

DAY # 9.

WHEN TO LEARN TO LEARN ANYTHING 

---- Schedule the calender 

---- Shallow work 

-- Replying to eamils, attending meeting

-- Keep the business or moving

---- Deep work

-- Requires application of your skills 

-- Requires intense concentration 

-- Produces high value work which advances your career or your business 

---- Self-discipline 

---- Separate 90 minutes/3 blocks 

-- Focus - 25 minutes, 5 minutes - Rest 

---- 10 seconds pauses in learning in 2-3m

DAY # 10

HOW TO DETERMINE WHERE TO LEARN 

OPTIMAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT 

---- Turn off everything, phone, tv

---- 85 rule 

DAY # 11

FOUNDATIONAL(BASIC) KNOWLEDGE

---- Where you should start your learning 

---- All other knowledge depends upon "Foundatin knowledge" 

---- Trivium 

---- FIRST PRINCIPLE THINKING 

1. Molecule 

2. Atom 

3. Nucleus  

4. Proton 

5. Quark 

---- Review & Research 

---- Before start learning : Bulid prior knowledge, Associate a lot 

---- Learn directly (practically)

TRANSFER (RELATE)

---- Projects : applying skills 

---- emursion 

---- Simulation 

---- Over kill approach : challenge yourself 

DAY # 12

WHAT IS ACTIVE LEARNING 

---- Focused Mode Learning 

---- Diffused Mode Learning (Resting, Overflow of ideas)

MODES OF THINKNING 

---- Consest 3-4 things 

---- Cognitive load 

---- Taking breaks for watching to DM 

DAY # 13

TECHNIQUE NO. 1 

 ACTIVE LEARNING 

---- Execute it!

---- Key Ideas ( Recall them)

---- Notedown done tasks 

DAY # 14.

TECHNIQUE NO.2 

POMODORO 

Focus - 25 minutes, Rest - 5 minutes, Focus - 25 minutes, Rest - 5 minutes 

---- Quiet place 

DAY # 15

TECHNIQUE NO. 3

CHUNKING 

---- Working memory holds 4 pieces of information at once. 

-- Break things into course 

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DAY # 16.

TECHNIQUE NO. 4

INTERLEAVING : The process of mixing different types of tasks, problems, or topics together as you practice to studying them 

Ex:- Being an artist : Study 10 different styles of artist, view dozen paintings of 1 artist & move on to another one. 

DAY # 17. 

TECHNIQUE NO. 5

DUAL CODING 

PICTURE(Stimuli), Eye(Senses), Non-verbal Processing(Working Memory[limited capacity]) = Knowledge(Long Term Memory)

WORDS(Stimuli), Ear(Senses), Verbal Processing(Working Memory[limited capacity]) = Knowledge(Long Term Memory)

---- Imagine instead (Not having pic)

---- Create Mindmapping 

---- Create chart or Diagram or Graph 

DAY # 18 

TECHNIQUE NO. 6

READING EFFECTIVELY 

READING ACTIVITY IN THE BRAIN 

1. Inferior Frontal Gyrus 

    Vocalization, Articulation

2. Parieto-Temporal 

    Word Analysis 

3. Occipito- Temporal

    Word recognition, Automaticity 

~ Vocabulary + Background(foundational)  information = Speed reading

    "Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers."

PROCESS FOR EFFECTIVE READING 

1. What to read? (Re-read the best one twice)

2. SQ3Rof 

3 Actual reading phase 

FOUR KINDS OF READING BY EDLER

1. Synoptical : Synthesizing multiple perspectives on the same topic

2. Analytical : Close reading

3. Inspectional : Thoughtful, informed skimming 

4. Elementary : The ability to read

---- Syn : Bring author to term

                Fulfill your questions

                Finding the issue 

TAKING NOTES 

Before start reading 

~ Create a margin and at right side write "AS I READ = Confirm, deny, update". And on the left side write "What I think I know about the subject = Create the vertical series of numbers to note each important point".

~ Read --) Repeat in periods 

~ When you read try to re-call after break 

~ 2nd strategy of Noting : Taking conventional notes

    Writing on the margins of the book 

~ Read book --) Create Notes --) Repeat the notes --) Repeat nnotes not book in the week. 

~ Recall brings 400% improvement 

~ SQ3R

DAY # 19

WHAT IS MEMORY (ENGAGEMENT PHASE) 

~ Trivium 

~ STM : Half a minute retention, 3-4 information chunks 

   Try number quickly 

~ LTM : Everything we have learned 

THREE THEORIES OF FORGETTING 

1. DECAY : Memory decay with time, events, things 

2. INFERENCE : Information overlap on another, Information competition 

---- Pro-active inference : Pre-occupied knowledge makes it harder for a new knowledge to come

---- Retro-active inference : It is opposite, New knowledge erases old knowledge 

3. FORGETTING QUEUES 

~ Re-calling 

~ Associations

~ Applying material

DAY # 20 

TECHNIQUE NO. 7

RETRIEVAL PRACTICE

~ Starting from final 

~ Research proves : The best way to prepare yourself for test is by practicing problems & questions that are similar to an upcoming test.

~ Creating flash cards 

~ Question book method : Copying main points 

~ Rephrasing what you have recorded as question to be answered later. 

   Example : Instead of writing Magna Carta was signed in 1215, you could instead "When was the Magna Carta was signed. (Add some other contemporary ways to store. 

DAY # 21

TECHNIQUE NO. 21

ELABORATIVE INTERROGATION 

~ What, why, how, when, where, what if etc 

~ Self-explanation 

~ How these ideas work and why?

~ Give all the details to your examiner/tutor

DAY # 22

TECHNIQUE NO. 9

SPECIAL REPETITION 

~ 1hr --) Review, 1 day --) Review, 2 day --) Review, 1 week --) Review, 1 month --) Review, 3 months ---)Review 

GERMAN SCIENTIST's rsearch

---- After 20 minutes : 42% of learning is lost 

---- After 24 hours : 67% of learning is lost

---- After 31 days : 79% of learning is lost 

---- After 60 days : 90% of learning is lost 

~ Without further revisions, the average learner retains only 1% of new information after 60 days. 

~ Cramming is different cause it's all  nighter technique

DAY # 23

TECHNIQUE NO. 10

CREATING ASSOCIATIONS 

~ Concept mapping 

~ Using stories or associative chaining 

~ Moon walking with Einstein book 

~ Human memory is really designed to remember concrete information than abstract information. 

DAY # 24

TECHNIQUE NO. 11

MNEMONICS 

~ RICE : Rest ice compress elevate

~ My very educated mother just served us Nachos : Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune 

~ Visual Mnemonics : Create an image crazy vivid, and build some movement in the image

1. Very highly detailed visualization, picture must be high detailed, fuzzy image

2. Your visualization must include abbsurd, bizzarre, violent, or even sexual imagery 

3. The stuff we already know + visualization 

4. Connecting back this visualization for what you are learning 

---- Metaphor 

---- Memory Palace : Speech, Memorizing entire book 

~ MEMORY PALACE 

---- LOCATION : 

---- Periodic Table : Hydrogen(fire hydron), Helium(Balloon), Lithium(Battery), Boran(Bore) 

-- Now place these elements in locations 

DAY # 25

TECHNIQUE NO. 12

DELIBERATE PRACTICE 

It is purposeful, systematic, specific goal, feedbacks 

~ ANELARS ERICSSON : DELIBERATE PRACTICE 

1. Set a strach goal 

2. Focus 100% on your goal 

3. Get feedback from others 

4. Reflect & Refine 

~ Benjamin Franklin used deliberate practice and criticised by father in teenage for bad writing. "Each time I discovered my faults and corrected them." 

~ Break things in to part & test each section 

~ Create a circle like Earth, mantal, crust, core

---- Core : Comfort zone --) Very little learning ,,, Boring safe easy 

---- Crust : Discomfort zone --) Lots of learning ,,, intersting, challenging, and scary 

---- Mantal : Alarm Zone : Very little learning, shutdown --) Overwhelming, difficult, terrifying

--------------------------- The discomfort zone, courtesy of training for change

In ULTRALEARNING,

---- Practice your skill directly before you learn how to do it like guitar. 

1. Practicing anything practice directly 

2. Analyze the direct skill try to isolate components 

3. Develop drills practice components separately until you get better at them 

4. Go back look to direct practice and watch 

~ Powerful tool is DRILL

1. DIRECT PRACTICE 

DRILLS : 

1. Time slicing : practice a hardest part of guitar 

     Practice until it becomes perfect

2. Cognitive component 

3. Copy-cat : Copy the skill (Benjamin did it)

4. Magnifying glass method 

DAY # 26

TECHNIQUE NO. 13

FEEDBACK

~ Positive feedback : Motivation 

~ Negative feedback : Opportunity 

DAY # 27

HOW TO ACHIEVE MASTERY 

~ Trivium 

~ Bloom's Taxonomy/ hierarchy of learning / pyramid 

---- First top rank : Produce new or original work 

       Design, assemble, construct, conjecture, develop, formulate, author, investigate 

---- Second top rank : Justify a stand or decision 

       Appaise, argue, defend, judge, select, support, value, criticise, weigh

---- Third top rank : Draw connections among ideas

       differentiate, organize, relate, compare, contrast, distinguish, examine, experiment, question, test

---- Fourth top rank : Use information in new situation 

       Execute, implement, solve, use, demonstrate, interpret, operate, schedule, sketch

---- Fifth top rank : Explain ideas or concept

       Classify, describe, discuss, explain, identify, locate, recognize, report, select, translate

---- Sixth top rank : Recall facts and basic concepts 

       Define, duplicate, test, memorize, repeat, state

~ Declarative knowledge --) LTM --) Procedural knowledge 

DAY # 28

TECHNIQUE NO. 14

PROCEDURALIZATION 

DAY # 29

TECHNIQUE NO. 15

OVERLEARNING 

DAY # 30 

TECHNIQUE NO. 16 

EXPERIMENTING 

FIVE TACTICS TO RUN EXPERIMENT 

1. Copy then create 

2. Compare methods side by side 

3. Introducing new constraints

4. Creating hybrid of unrelated skills 

5. Exploring the extremes 

    Break traditions/ constraints/ commonality 

~ Experiment techniques 

~ Experiment everything 

DAY # 31

TECHNIQUE NO. 17

GENERATIONS (EFFEC)

~ After reading ideas 

~ Apply and create 

~ Before trying anything try to solve the problems 

DAY # 32

TECHNIQUE NO. 18

TEACHING 

~ FEYMAN TECHNIQUE 

1. Choose a concept 

2. Teach a toddler (6th grade)

3. Identify gaps (weaknesses)

4. Review + simplify (To a naive)

5. Test it out by teaching someone 

    "Once taught, twice learning." 

DAY # 33

HOW TO MONITOR AND ADJUST YOUR LEARNING PLAN 

~ Assess your strategy of your process

~ Change the way you study 

~ Have I reached what I'm up to 

~ Have I interviewed successful people and known the ways they had applied 

~ Are you focussing on weakest points 

~ What things are holding you back 

~ Activity recallling 

~ Look at the resources 

~ Look at the roadmap 

~ Do I understand or just remembering 

~ Can I teach these things?

~ Take test before you are learning it 

DAY # 34

HOW TO REVIEW THE RESULTS OF YOUR LEARNING PLAN

~ Review results 

~ What do you exactly want to do with your learning

~ Madness

~ Re-learning 

~ Life-long mastery of skill 

DAY # 35

HOW TO LEARN COURSE AT PLATO UNIVERSITY 

COURSE ROADMAP 

1. Method of Loci 

2. Why learn, How to learn 

3. How learning happens 

4. Become pro-learner 

5. Growth mindset 

6. Determine your why 

7. Determine what to learn 

8. Determine How to learn 

9. Determine whe n to learn 

10. Determine where to learn 

11. Foundation knowledge 

12. Active learning 

13. Active recall 

14. Pomodoro

15. Chunking 

16. Interleaving 

17. Dual coding

18. Effective reading

19. Memory

20. Retrieval Practice 

21. Elaboration 

22. Spaced repetition 

23. Creating associations 

24. Mnemonics 

25. Deliberate practice 

26. Feedback

27. Mastery 

28. Proceduralization 

29. Overlearning 

30. Experimenting 

31. Generation 

32. Teaching 

33. Review results 

34. Monitor & adjust