1. Learning How to Learn:
Some Key Points

2. Learning How to Learn: Some Key Points
• How the brain works.
The focused mode and the diffuse mode.
• A useful tool: chunking.
Do the pomodoro and repeat
repeat
repeat.
• Avoid procrastination.
I'll talk about that tomorrow, maybe.
Or next week.
Or perhaps next month...

3. Meet the two ways the brain functions while
learning:
• The focused mode. • The diffuse mode.

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6. Chunk like you mean it!
One of the most useful tools for learning is chunking.
Chunking is breaking great pieces of information into
smaller and more manageable bits or “chunks”.
These chunks interact together in our brain,
like the pieces in a puzzle, to form a bigger picture.
Piece of cake!

7. Avoiding procrastination
(or how not to leave things for later).
Avoiding procrastination
(or how not to leave things for later).
The best way to do that is by…
The best way to do that is by…

8. What was I saying?
Oh, yes. Procrastination and how to avoid it.
It’s easy: once you start working on what
makes you unhappy, that feeling of
unhappiness disappears.
So, what are you waiting for? Stop
procrastinating and get to work!