Post No.: 0274 Fluffystealthkitten says: Whenever you form an opinion – listen to others too, argue critically against yourself, and think of alternative views or counterfactual hypotheses, in order to test and refine your beliefs. Most of … Read More
Post No.: 0257 Furrywisepuppy says: There are 3 stages to remembering information according to modern psychology. The first is perception and encoding – this is what we see, hear, taste, touch, smell and feel. This in itself is … Read More
Post No.: 0251 Furrywisepuppy says: (Checks the weather for tomorrow…) (Gets a doggy biscuit and munches it slowly…) (Spots a magpie in the garden so checks it out…) …Some people say that they work better … Read More
Post No.: 0225 Furrywisepuppy says: IQ (intelligence quotient) tests are supposed to be a standardised way to measure general intelligence and, across a population on average, higher IQ scores do correlate with many positive and desirable outcomes in … Read More
Post No.: 0214 Furrywisepuppy says: If you really want to learn something and make it stick then highlighting passages of text is useless unless you look back at those highlights and most of all test retrieving that material … Read More
Post No.: 0205 Fluffystealthkitten says: Learning could be said to be the acquisition and containment of information, whilst memory could be said to be the ability to retain and make use of information. Extending on Post No.: … Read More
Post No.: 0186 Furrywisepuppy says: Fluffystealthkitten and I personally believe that it’s great to be fascinated by a wide variety of different things! Even if you have a well-defined field of expertise – understanding other subjects may help … Read More
Post No.: 0169 Furrywisepuppy says: To clarify – what I mean here by a ‘mass media-directed’ education is an education that’s not built upon a formal study of subjects via reputable educational institutions but merely upon snippets of … Read More
Post No.: 0154 Furrywisepuppy says: When presented with a problem, too many people naturally try to push a premature solution that they had thought of, then end up defending it from all attackers and hanging onto ‘their baby’ … Read More
Post No.: 0143 Fluffystealthkitten says: Continuing from Post No.: 0128 and our exploration into the topic of memory – when learning new things, new information will compete with and potentially push out existing information when it concerns our … Read More
Post No.: 0128 Furrywisepuppy says: Few students ever learn how to best learn – as in how to employ optimal learning techniques. So what study techniques can help us to learn more effectively and efficiently so that more … Read More
Post No.: 0112 Furrywisepuppy says: Like throughout history so far, people, maybe fifty to a hundred years in the future, might look back to today and think that our generation was strange, blind or naïve regarding many things … Read More
Post No.: 0077 Furrywisepuppy says: I have studied many online courses or MOOCs so far, for personal development as well as just for curiosity and fun (I’ve participated in 6 more to date since starting this blog). Similar … Read More
Post No.: 0051 Furrywisepuppy says: Cramming is not optimal (although it’s better than nothing if you’ve left it all too late! If so, use what time you have left to test your knowledge, not just read material). Cramming … Read More
Post No.: 0046 Furrywisepuppy says: Age doesn’t automatically lead to experience, and experience doesn’t automatically lead to education or knowledge – the passage of time, and often even exposure, isn’t alone enough for us to learn things. Education … Read More
Post No.: 0031 Furrywisepuppy says: We improve by knowing more and doing more (including via more repetition and practice). But there is a fallacy in believing that just because one is good at one specific task, it necessarily … Read More
Post No.: 0015 Furrywisepuppy says: Wise people understand that there is so much that they do not know, and much of what they do know may turn out to be incorrect or outdated – so we should never … Read More
Post No.: 0002 Furrywisepuppy says: If you are an adult today and you believe you had learnt a lot of useless stuff when you were at school (e.g. algebra or plate tectonics) then this is actually a sign … Read More
