Old Man Learns about Learning

  Power Point Slides and Additional Notes (01) The below are Power Point slides from a talk given to an audience of technically skilled older men Click on each image to see it in enlarged form Above Slide 01 introduces some of the topics to be covered in the talk (02) A Far Side cartoon: Dog is balancing on a unicycle atop a high wire while spinning a Hoola hoop around waist, holding a cat in his mouth, balancing a jug on top his head and juggling 4 balls   (03) There are many different kinds of "Knowledge" including Procedural and Explicit (04) The traditional T-graph does not show inherent gaps even though they are present (05)  Emotion-enhanced Neural Anchor Points (06)   Disclaimers (All humans are vulnerable) (07) Dunning-Kruger (08) Fluid IQ (09)  IQ Declines with Age (10) What Happened in that C classroom (11) Facing the Brave New World of Modern Software Dev (12) Ancient History: April 2...

The average person incorrectly believes that a release of freed  Dopamine into the brain from dopamine-containing neurons creates a pleasure sensation . Latest additions here: Olga Actually, when A  REPEATABLE  cognition of A SPECIFIC GOAL is coupled with a tonic release of DOPAMINE (an increase in the molecules above baseline),  it creates a strong desire, craving, (powerful motivation) to act towards fulfillment of the GOAL . The goal could be a toxic one like intaking more sugar, more alcohol, more nicotine, more doom-scrolling or it could be beneficial one like intaking more nutritious food, more exercise, more IRL socializing, ... @@@ The Dopamine System and Automatization of Movement Sequences: ... to be continued ... MORE TO EXPLORE >>> Good and bad cravings mediated by Dopamine >>>  iluli by Mike Lamb (DoCO) = Diary Of A CEO --  Dopamine Expert: Doing This Once A Day Fixes Your Dopamine!  >>>( Fr...

Learning about Learning is just one of many topics that one can study. How about creating a Mind Map topped by LaX = Learning about ___ and continued by child nodes including the following: LaP = Learning about PYTHON LaO = Learning about Other Software LaL = Learning about LEARNING LaN = Learning about Note-taking (PKM) The above is a second round draft of a Mind Map for tying together various learning tags (#LaX) directed to different topics including (1= #LaP) learning about Python , (2= #LaL) learning about Learning , (3= #LaT) learning about Politics , (4= #LaSw) learning about Software Other than Python, (5= #LaO) learning about Personal Knowledge Management (PKM, note-taking, Obsidian), and so forth. This will be copied into my Obsidian vault for further elucidation including adding subtopics. TO BE CONTINUED LaL: You Forget Half of What You Read. The Method That Makes It Sticks --  Dr. Grace Lee --^^^-- Grace Playlists --  The Art of Learning [2 videos] --^^^--...

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