Limitless Mind: Learn, Lead & Live Without Barriers
Purpose
Expectations
Relectations and further research
Works Cited
Notes
Introduction: The Six Keys
- 42 Beliefs about limits of Brain detrimental
- 51 Giving up on math leads to no science, medicine, tech careers
- 77 50% have math anxiety (1&2) similar reaction to numbers as seeing spider (3)
- 86 Genetics does not limit your ability (4)
- 96 Discovery of Neuroplasticity (6)
- Anders Ericsson
- 122 Hit a barrier, try something new- most just give up
- 139 Carol Dweck - Growth vs fixed mindset
- 149 "I am giving you this feedback because I believe in you"
- 167 Growth vs fixed praise "That's great you have learned X" Not "You're so smart"
1 How Neuroplasticity Changes Everything
- 193 Learning Key 1: Learning is a process (neural pathway gen)
- 193 Michael Merzenich (1) - mapping monkey mind signals and they change over time
- 230 Hippocampus grows with use (5)
- 320 Professors rewarded for publishing in journals not writing books for public
- 320 https://www.youcubed.org/
- 328 Norman Doidge - The Brain That Changes Itself
- 337 Tracking in schools based on fixed brain - self fufilling design
- 347 Lowest reading group never catches up
- 365 Lois Letchford - Reversed
- 391 Arrowsmith schools - "fog lifting"
- 415 Identify weakness and focus on that
- 433 Struggling at math caused more brain areas to light up
- 473 Piper Harron - The Liberated Mathematician
- 490 Maryam Mirzakhani
- 534 Being labelled as gifted as a curse- can't ask questions - imposter syndrome or may lose your mojo
- 543 You do not expect to struggle
- 560 Differences born with are marginal compared with possible change
- 569 Anders Ericsson - Genius made, not born
2 Why We Should Love Mistakes, Struggle, and Even Failure
- 622 Learning Key #2 - The times when we are struggling and making mistakes are th ebest times for brain growth
- 633 Mistakes are good
- 642 Doing something wrong strengthened right neural pathways (4)
- 651 Daniel Coyle - The Talent Code
- 668 "The girl who did a month's worth of practice in six minutes"
- 678 Error focused practice
- 698 US Math education "A mile wide and an inch deep"
- 706 Teachers who seem to want to save students from struggle
- 723 Elizabeth & Robert Bjork - a lot of learning that happens is very unproductive at the time - goes against intuition and deviates from standard practice.
- 723 "They particularly highlight the act of retrieving information from the brain, as every time we retrieve soemthing, it changes the brain and is more accessible when needed later." (11)
- 837 James Nottingham - The Learning Challenge: How to Guide Your Students Through The Learning Pit To Achieve Deeper Understanding
- 847 "What classroom tools do you need?"
3 Changing Your Mind, Changing Your Reality
- 982 Learning Key #3 - When we change our beliefs, our bodies and our brains physically change as well
- 982 People who thought they were fit were healthier
- 982 Negative thinkers 71% more likely to die in follow-up period (1)
- 1002 Thinking about using muscles improved strength (6)
- 1019 Similar results w/ professional pianists learning new piece by just thinking about it (7)
- 1028 Fixed mindset people more aggressive (9)
- 1037 Growth mindset less racist (10)
- 1054 Growth mindset works best w/ making mistakes (12)
- 1060 Believe in yourself works
- 1086 Labelled as being smart seen as reward labelled as hard worker motivated more progress
- 1095 Awareness of science behind neuro plasticity & evidence of brain growth
- 1118 "Gifted" people just have more practice at learning - stronger learning muscle
- 1118 Angela Duckworth- Grit - moved a hard worker to a new track. First struggled, then adapted.
- 1136 Carol Dweck - Don't understand X YET.
- 1162 Becomming limitless involves letting go of the idea that past failure were because of something wrong with you.
- 1171 You are a product of some system - if it had flaws undo them in you
- 1189 Anders Edicsson - self doubt is natural; dead-stop obstacles extremely rare (20)
- 1217 Known when you've outgrown someone
- 1248 Fake praise backfires "You tried hard" (22)
4 The Connected Brain
- 1280 Learning Key #4 - Neural pathways and learning are optimized when considering ideas with a multidimensional approach
- 1280 Try different methods- full effort with wrong method is not sufficient
- 1289 Alfie Kohn - mindset critic - unfair to tell students to change without changing the system too (1)
- 1345 Ayako Sakakibara - Learning Perfect Pitch study (9)
- 1355 Albert Einstein:
A person who never made a mistake never tried something new.
It's not that I am smart. It is just that I stay with problems longer.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- 1374 Math problems quality > quantity:
- Solve problems with numbers
- solve prblems visually
- solve or create a story
- draw a representation of the problem
- 1408 John Muir Laws - The Laws Guide To Nature Drawing and Journaling
- 1424 Homework limited benefits (14)
- 1632 Appendix I - opportunity to think visually about math