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Name: Learn Like a Pro
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Author: Barbara Oakley and Olav Schewe

Barbara Oakley and Olav Schewe

Science-based Tools to Become Better at Anything

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What’s in it for me? Become an expert learner with science-based studying techniques.

If you find yourself easily distracted or stuck in an everlasting procrastination loop, these blinks are for you. No one will dispute that learning is hard and can bring on disappointments. Unfortunately, with repeated setbacks over the years, it’s easy to become a discouraged learner.

These blinks offer tried-and-true methods to relieve some of your learning frustrations and boost your memory’s performance. And while you might become a pro learner along the way, you don’t have to be one to use these strategies today.

So now that you’re here, leave the distractions behind, give these blinks your full attention, and get ready to learn some of the most effective study techniques and the science behind why they work.

In these blinks, you’ll learn

how Victor Hugo stayed focused;
the best way to get your mind unstuck; and
why old tests are the best exam prep.

Use the Pomodoro Technique to focus in 25-minute intervals, stay on track, and minimize distractions.

It’s tough to focus in today’s tech-heavy world – so tough, that you may yearn for a bygone era when life was simple and distractions were limited. But here’s the thing: it wasn’t any easier to focus in the past than it is today.

You’ve probably heard of the French writer Victor Hugo. He wrote the novel Les Misérables. He lived in the 1800s. And he also struggled with focus. According to one legend, he motivated himself by working in his study completely naked, with nothing but a pen and piece of paper. His attendant was instructed to unlock the door only after he’d finished writing.

This worked well for Hugo, but what are you supposed to do if you don’t have an attendant and prefer to work fully clothed? Fortunately, we have modern methods for staying focused and overcoming procrastination. Perhaps the most powerful of these is the Pomodoro Technique.

The key message here is: Use the Pomodoro Technique to focus in 25-minute intervals, stay on track, and minimize distractions.

In the 1980s, Italian university student Francesco Cirillo took a stab at tackling his own tendency to get distracted. He did this by dividing his learning time into 25-minute chunks of intense focus, separated by five-minute breaks. He used a tomato-shaped kitchen timer to time himself, and called each chunk a Pomodoro, the Italian word for tomato. It works like this.

First, remove anything from your workspace that might distract you. This includes unnecessary clutter and open tabs in your browser. And turn off notifications on all your devices.

Then, set a timer for 25 minutes and work with as much focus as possible. Actual emergencies aside, everything else can wait until you’re done. If you finish your task early, use the remaining time to check your work.

When the timer rings, relax for five minutes – but keep away from your phone, the internet, and reading, since these don’t allow your brain to recharge fully. Instead, make a cup of tea, or go for a walk. This short mental break gives your brain time to transfer the material you’ve just studied into your long-term memory.

So why is the Pomodoro Technique so effective? It stops you from multitasking, which hurts focus. In fact, a University of Michigan study found that participants who switched to a second activity before finishing the first showed 30 to 40 percent drops in cognitive performance.

Only about 2.5 percent of people can successfully transition among multiple complex tasks. For everyone else, there’s the Pomodoro Technique.

For difficult problems, switch between focused and relaxed thinking.

One day, Olav Schewe, one of the authors, was flying his remote-controlled drone when it got stuck high up in a tall tree. The branches were too high to reach – even with a ladder – and too thin to support weight. Olav had no idea how to get the thing down. And the more he focused on the problem, the farther he was from a solution. So what did he do?

Well, he started by doing . . . nothing. He relaxed and forgot about his predicament.

An active approach is the quickest path to deep learning.

When you learn something new, you make connections at the microscopic level. Your brain’s long-tailed nerve cells, called neurons, link to each other using cellular appendages called synapses.

So when you’re trying to learn something new, like the meaning of the word “metaphor,” the neurons link up when you first hear the word. As you learn the definition, those links become stronger. Then you start noticing metaphors in different contexts, and those links become even stronger. This continues as you practice your new knowledge.

Effective learning moves information from your working memory to your long-term memory.

One morning, you wake up and feel a bit funny. You’re not yourself. In fact, you’ve transformed into a four-legged octopus! This octopus is a metaphor for your short-term – or working – memory, which the coauthors call an attentional octopus. The average person’s attentional octopus has four legs – each one holding a thought or concept in working memory.

The trouble is that the octopus’s legs are slippery – some more than others. They can’t hold a thought for very long before your focus turns into a precarious underwater juggling act. Luckily, your attentional legs link to your long-term memory and pull information from it as if it were a mental locker.

Your procedural learning system turns learned knowledge into fast-acting intuition.

Imagine you’re trying to deliver a quality tennis serve. At first, it’ll be tough. For your first few lessons, you might focus mostly on your basic serving technique, keeping an eye on the ball each time. With enough training, though, it’ll become second nature. After all, during a fast-paced match, professional tennis players don’t remind themselves to look at the ball.

In the early stages of learning, you rely heavily on your declarative learning system, which is this conscious way of acquiring skills or knowledge. But how does it become automatic?

Prepare for exams by solving old test questions and discussing the material with others.

Barb Oakley, one of the authors, was studying electrical engineering when an exam was announced. It was clear from the get-go that it wasn’t going to be a breeze. Barb tried learning everything about the subject – electric circuits – that was brought up in class. She did practice questions and even explained difficult concepts to other students.

Yet, somehow, she flunked – while everyone else didn’t. How could this happen?

Become a metacognitive learner.

You’ve probably seen a contestant on a TV show like The X-Factor or America’s Got Talent react with utter disbelief when the judges give him two thumbs down; he was absolutely certain that his singing would blow them away.

And yet, to everyone else, it’s very clear that this guy didn’t have much talent. How did he get to this point without once questioning his chances for success?

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Learn Like a Pro: Science-based Tools to Become Better at Anything (2021) looks at the most powerful strategies for staying focused and learning effectively. Both coauthors draw on their past struggles with learning, and use insights from experts and research to find out what works and what doesn’t.

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Über den Autor

Barbara Oakley, PhD, is a professor of engineering at Oakland University in California. In addition to teaching several popular MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) on Coursera, Oakley has also written numerous books on learning, such as Learning How to Learn and Mindshift.

Olav Schewe is founder and CEO of Educas, an education start-up in Oslo, Norway, that helps students learn more effectively. He is also a consultant for Kahoot, one of the largest educational companies in the world. Schewe’s book Super Student has been translated into 17 languages.

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