Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential

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What Will You Learn?

This free course is designed to help boost your career and life in today’s fast-paced learning environment. Whatever your age or stage, Mindshift teaches you essentials such as how to get the most out of online learning and MOOCs, how to seek out and work with mentors, the secrets to avoiding career ruts (and catastrophes) and general ruts in life, and insights such as the value of selective ignorance over general competence.  We’ll provide practical insights from science about how to learn and change effectively even in maturity, and we’ll build on what you already know to take your life’s learning in fantastic new directions.  This course is designed to show you how to look at what you’re learning, and your place in what’s unfolding in the society around you, so you can be what you want to be, given the real world constraints that life puts on us all. You’ll see that by using certain mental tools and insights, you can learn and do more—far more—than you might have ever dreamed!

About This Course

Provider: Coursera
Format: Online
Duration: 10 hours to complete [Approx]
Target Audience: Beginners
Learning Objectives: You will be able to leverage practical insights and mental tools to enhance your learning capabilities, navigate career challenges, and proactively shape your life's trajectory after completing this free course
Course Prerequisites: NA
Assessment and Certification: NA
Instructor: McMaster University
Key Topics: Learning To Learn, Lifelong Learning, Pomodoro Technique, Meta Learning
Topic Covered: 
  1. - Introduction: About Mindshift
  2. - The Value of Being a Slow Learner
  3. - From Passive to Active
  4. - The Value of Your Past
  5. - Mastery Learning
  6. - Focused Versus Diffuse: Furthering Your Understanding
  7. - Should You Listen to Music When You're Studying?
  8. - Learning Something Hard? The Coffee Shop Trick
  9. - Your environment affects who you are
  10. - The Changing World: Matching Aspirations with Opportunity
  11. - The Value of a Poor Memory
  12. - Meditation and Mindfulness: What to Look for
  13. - The Pomodoro Technique as Working Meditation
  14. - Getting Past Procrastination
  15. - The Value of Procedural Fluency and Deliberate Practice
  16. - Bad Grades and Barb's Hands: The Value of Mental Tricks
  17. - Learning to Reframe: Put a Label on It!
  18. - Integrate All Your Senses Into Learning: The Pitfalls of "Learning Styles"
  19. - Can You Try to Learn Too Much?
  20. - Your Social Brain
  21. - Passion and Work 
  22. - Mindshifting: What to Do in the Face of Opposition
  23. - General Competence versus Selective Ignorance
  24. - The Value of Feeling Like an Imposter
  25. - Avoiding Career Ruts and Surviving Career Catastrophes
  26. - Bad Traits as Best Traits
  27. - The Intelligence of Emotions

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