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:
- - Introduction: About Mindshift
- - The Value of Being a Slow Learner
- - From Passive to Active
- - The Value of Your Past
- - Mastery Learning
- - Focused Versus Diffuse: Furthering Your Understanding
- - Should You Listen to Music When You're Studying?
- - Learning Something Hard? The Coffee Shop Trick
- - Your environment affects who you are
- - The Changing World: Matching Aspirations with Opportunity
- - The Value of a Poor Memory
- - Meditation and Mindfulness: What to Look for
- - The Pomodoro Technique as Working Meditation
- - Getting Past Procrastination
- - The Value of Procedural Fluency and Deliberate Practice
- - Bad Grades and Barb's Hands: The Value of Mental Tricks
- - Learning to Reframe: Put a Label on It!
- - Integrate All Your Senses Into Learning: The Pitfalls of "Learning Styles"
- - Can You Try to Learn Too Much?
- - Your Social Brain
- - Passion and Work
- - Mindshifting: What to Do in the Face of Opposition
- - General Competence versus Selective Ignorance
- - The Value of Feeling Like an Imposter
- - Avoiding Career Ruts and Surviving Career Catastrophes
- - Bad Traits as Best Traits
- - The Intelligence of Emotions
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