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How To Teach Your Brain Something It Won’t Forget A Week Later

How To Teach Your Brain Something It Won’t Forget A Week Later | Consultancy Matters | Scoop.it
From www.fastcompany.com - January 21, 2018 12:52 AM

Of all the things you learned in school, chances are the right way to learn wasn’t one of them.

 

To make it through academic life, most of us opt for what psychologists call “massed practice,” better known as cramming: It’s Monday and your test is Friday, so you save studying for the night before. One four-hour session can nab you a passing grade, so why not?

 

Well, because that’s not how your brain likes to absorb information. You might remember enough to pass your exam the next day, but just a week or two later and the details will already be fuzzy, if not gone completely. Here’s how to do better.


Via The Learning Factor
CCM Consultancy's insight:

A four-hour marathon study session (or team meeting or conference presentation) demands a ton of sustained attention, the quality of which will inevitably dwindle the longer those periods last. It simply makes more sense, cognitively speaking, for teams to opt for small doses of high-quality learning–sessions lasting under an hour, with lots of discussion and participation–to make insights stick without taking up much time.

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Jerry Busone's curator insight, January 12, 2018 8:22 AM

Now I understand my preparation process for any event or task i take on..."The “spacing effect” is one of the most consistently replicated mental processes in psychological history, dating back to Hermann Ebbinghaus, who observed it in 1885.
Kavya Mathur's comment, January 13, 2018 3:52 AM
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What It Takes To Change Your Brain's Patterns After Age 25

What It Takes To Change Your Brain's Patterns After Age 25 | Consultancy Matters | Scoop.it
From www.fastcompany.com - May 21, 2017 1:39 AM

"In most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."


That quote was made famous by Harvard psychologist William James in his 1890 book The Principles of Psychology, and is believed to be the first time modern psychology introduced the idea that one’s personality becomes fixed after a certain age.


More than a century since James’s influential text, we know that, unfortunately, our brains start to solidify by the age of 25, but that, fortunately, change is still possible after. The key is continuously creating new pathways and connections to break apart stuck neural patterns in the brain.


Simply put, when the brain is young and not yet fully formed, there’s a lot of flexibility and plasticity, which explains why kids learn so quickly, says Deborah Ancona, a professor of management and organizational studies at MIT.


Via The Learning Factor
CCM Consultancy's insight:

If you want to keep your brain agile, you’re going to have to hone in on parts of the brain that are challenging that you’ll feel exhausted after practicing the task. Only through repetition and practice can those new neural connections be established enough to become habitual or default behaviors.

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Scott Brown's curator insight, May 10, 2015 4:25 PM

What if personality is already set before birth?  
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