Hacking the Learning Mind

Advanced Work-based Project
Hyper Island | 2015
MA Digital Media Management Singapore

2015/11/15 23:59:59

When I was 9 years old, I was quite intrigued with a story from one of my text book. The story is about how Einstein learn.

While Einstein was waiting for a friend on the bridge, he was working on some mathematical formula on his notebook. His friend apologised for his lateness and Einstein claim that it was fine with him as he had managed to solve a small part of the problem. I could not find the source to verify the authenticity of the story but I was inspired and intrigued by the way how Einstein managed his time.

I just don’t have enough time to …

We have all said it before. Look at Einstein, Thomas Edison and Elon Musk. They all have 24 hrs and look at what they have done. How are they able to learn the required skill so quickly that help them to create so many ground breaking innovation?

“It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree — make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.”

Elon Musk’s answer to the question of learning quickly.

In other words, we need to have a strong knowledge foundation before we could learn new things. If you are going to learn a new programming language like Swift, it will be good if you have a good understanding of how object-oriented works.

What if you already have a strong foundation in work and you would like to get to leaves/detail as Elon Musk had mentioned. How do you connect the dots so that you could have an effective learning output?

I am quite curious in these area and been a business owner, I would like to explore on how I could help my team to cultivate personal growth. Maybe this will lead to somewhere.

Update – 5th August 2015 : To record small note, I think I will use the live blogging feature. Light and simple, and it will be much easy for me to update on the move. Little Black Note Book

Update – 5th August 2015 : If there is any thoughts or updates about the project, I will update the timeline below.

Resources : I have create a new page for it. I believe it will grow quite big for the next few months. It need a page of it own.

Mindvalley - 5th August 2015

Mindvalley seem to be a gold mine. Inspired by the video from TED, it seem that it a organisation that promote personal growth. Very much of it. Note to self: Research over the weekend

Resources - August 5th 2015

Decided to build a resource page instead where I could consolidate all the articles and links. Much easier to manage.

PID Review - 5th August 2015

Focus, Focus, Focus,

Statement of Chosen Area

How can connected devices be use to improve or extend traditional training and learning into the local SMEs so that individual learning curve could be optimised in the workflow.

Skillfuture - 1st August 2015

Skillfuture is a movement to solve the problem of the SME that lack training capacity and not able to plan for the future. Note to self: To investigate further on what are the problem that the SME would face in training their employee.

Journey to the Mesencephalon Begins

29th July 2015