What you learn in one career can often lead to creative success in the next stage of your life, and it is often the knowledge that seemed useless in one career that forms a strong foundation for the next.
What you learn in one career often leads to creative success in the next.
Previous expertise in a very different subject area does not have to be a barrier to moving on from your past career, but rather a launching pad for your current and future creative career paths.
A revolution in thinking: This shift in thinking involves more than just learning new skills. Or changing careers but also changing attitudes, personal lives, and relationships. A mindset shift can manifest itself as a side hustle or a full-time job, or anything in between.
The book Moonwalking with Einstein uses memory techniques such as positional mnemonics, memory palaces, and storing information in memory.
In the past neuroscientists believed that a person was born with all the nerve cells they would ever have in their lifetime, and that the neurons would die off as they got older, but of course we now know that this is completely wrong, and that new neurons are being born every day, especially in the hippocampus of the brain, which is an important area for learning and memory.
I. About exercise
Exercise has a wide range of benefits for cognition, especially executive function, including improvements in attention, working memory, and multitasking.
Exercise is stronger than any drug that can be prescribed, indeed exercise seems to be the universal reset button for the brain, and this is achieved in part by stimulating the production of bdnf proteins, which promotes the growth of both established and newborn brain cells, an effect that is so powerful that it can even reverse the decline in brain function in older people.
? Bdnf is compared to a brain fertilizer that protects neurons from damage, promotes learning and improves synaptic plasticity. Exercise also stimulates the production of neurotransmitters, the chemical "messengers" responsible for transmitting signals from one cell to another, from one part of the brain to another, and the simple improvement in blood flow caused by exercise may also have an impact on cognitive and physical function.
As we age, we naturally lose synapses, the connections between neurons. This is a bit like a corroded pipe leaking all over the place, eventually failing to deliver water where it's needed. bdnf appears to be able to slow down and reverse this "corrosive effect", and not only that, but exercise appears to improve our ability to form long term memories, although we don't yet know for sure how this happens.
For older adults, walking 75 minutes a week had a positive effect on cognition, which appears to be the same as walking 225 minutes a week.
Exercise triggers a cascade of neurotransmitter releases accompanied by a host of other neurological changes that alter your thinking as you try to learn new things or think differently.
If you really want to make a mind shift in your life, then introducing an exercise element to your program will be invaluable.
Consistency, supplemented by exercise, can be very beneficial both academically and emotionally.
Second, on depression
People with depression are in a negative predictive cycle.
We encounter a lot of things that can make us feel depressed, we just choose not to feel depressed because of them, that's all.
Just like changing a muscle, changing a nerve takes effort - great effort.
People with depression can't always trust their brain, because the brain sometimes makes them do stupid things.
A depressed person should repeat what works for him, whether he likes it or not.
Depressed people make the way they perceive the world less painful, and forming that perspective takes constant learning and effort.
It takes trust that behavior does change experience.
People with depression need to listen to themselves and take care of their own needs first.
People with depression need to learn to teach themselves that it is possible for them to move beyond their current state and learn to change their brain and life experiences.
Life is full of paradoxes.
Make conscious choices and adopt healthy habits, and once they are formed, flossing your teeth doesn't require willpower.
Ways to be happy:
It's much easier to imitate than to act on your own initiative, so seek out advice and follow guidance, adapt to your environment, and until you can lead the way follow those in front of you and do what they do.
Get your backpacking handbag or gym bag organized the night before, as you tend to feel better about exercising the night before than you do that morning.
Spend as much time as you can outdoors in nature, the sun is good for you and you'll see beautiful things like breathing plants and rocks full of pride.
Let as much sunlight into your abode as possible, open the curtains put mirrors across the windows, use reflectors and stained glass, and go like a crow to collect shiny objects.
Stick to exercise classes. Gradually, your appearance and mental state will improve.
Spruce up your surroundings with cute little things you can afford to buy to make your environment more beautiful; the environment is important.
Make lists, you'll feel better for doing so, and if you do the things on your list, you'll likely feel better.
Make and put inspirational posters, sticky notes and pictures of your loved ones on your walls, put magnetic fridge stickers and cartoon pictures on your fridge that remind you of the good times.
Third, about block study.
Becoming an expert in something new, no matter what the field, means using daily practice and repetition to build small chunks of knowledge that can gradually be woven together to achieve proficiency.
"Deliberate practice" with difficult material leads to faster mastery of specialized skills.
Simply doing a lot of simple tasks, rather than systematically stepping back to comprehension exercises and repeating the most difficult topics.
When we learn something and then go to sleep, synapses of the mind begin to form.
Focusing on learning and then going to sleep is an amazing combination that allows new synaptic connections to form, and these new synaptic connections are the physiological structures that underpin your ability to learn new things.
However there are only a limited number of connections that can be formed in a single night's sleep, which is why we have to space out our learning to each day to get the extra practice we need to be able to form more as well as stronger neural pathways.
Understanding new and difficult concepts requires more than just momentary realizations; moments of epiphany from new and salient connections can fade as connections atrophy if they are not repeated in time after the initial connection is made.
The harder and deeper the group learns quickly, the faster your expertise grows.
The most revolutionary breakthroughs are often made by one or two types of people, Group 1 are young people who have not yet been force-fed and formed into a standardized way of looking at things, and these people keep their ideas fresh and independent.
Group 2 are people who are older but are just as innovative as the young, who change their specialties or careers.
It is the change of focus and the change of career that gives this older group, Group 2, a new perspective, and often this enables them to bring seemingly unrelated prior knowledge to their new job in new ways that help them to innovate.
When you start trying to understand a new subject or want to broaden or change your career, it's normal to feel ill-equipped, and although what you're doing is difficult, you're introducing a new perspective to your learning and work that will not only be useful to your new colleagues, but also give you a new personal outlook, don't underestimate it.
When it comes to leisure time, the brain is still working towards its goals, thanks to the "magic" of divergence mode (a state of rest for the nervous system, where it's not thinking about anything in particular). During these periods of relaxation, I'm still learning, and my brain is processing what I've learned before.
Getting into the habit of thinking about new concepts I've just learned before going to bed isn't a process of focused learning, but rather a kind of relaxed reminiscence, and it's not a coincidence that a difficult concept suddenly dawns on me early in the morning.
Another effective method is to teach yourself out loud.
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