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Focused thinking Vs Diffuse thinking These are one of the most effective ways of learning, and will increase rapidly the way of your studying.

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Learning How To Learn

Focused thinking Vs Diffuse thinking These are one of the most effective ways of learning, and will increase rapidly the way of your studying.

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Learning how to learn

Topic’s
Focused thinking
Diffuse thinking
Learning how to learn
• Focused thinking
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• Focused= directing a great deal of attention, interest, or activity towards a particular aim.
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• Focused=diirad saarid.
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• Focused thinking: is a highly attentive state of mind where the brain uses its best
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• concentration abilities in the prefrontal cortex to ignore all extraneous information.
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• Attentive= feejiganaan(digtoon). Paying close attention to something.
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• concentration =xoogsaaris (awood isku geeyn)
• the action or power of focusing all one's attention.
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• prefrontal cortex: helps people set and achieve goals
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• The gray matter of anterior part of frontal lobe=waxayna qaabilsantaxay( emotionka ).
Learning how to learn
• Diffuse thinking
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• Diffuse Thinking=Unlike focused Thinking, diffuse thinking is all about
distractions.
• Diffuse thinking happens when you let your mind wander freely, making
connections at random.
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• Diffuse : hal-meel oo kaliya in aadan diirada saarin ,faaf-sanaan, baahsanaan.(
• not concentrated in one place ).
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• Distraction : ka-mashqulin, ka jeedin
• (a thing that prevents someone from concentrating on something else.)
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• Wander:ka-laleexasho ka warwaregid, iska mashquulin.
• move about aimlessly or without any destination
Lecture notes:

• What do you do when you just can't figure something out?


• For zombies, it's pretty simple they can just keep bashing their
brains against the wall .
• But living brains are a lot more complex. it turns out, though, that
if you understand just a little bit of some of the basics about how
your brain works, you can learn more easily and be less
frustrated.
• Researchers have found that we have two fundamentally different
Modes of thinking
• Here, I'll call them the focused and the diffuse modes.
• We are familiar with focusing. It's when you concentrate intently
on something you are trying to learn
• Or to understand.
Lecture notes:
• But we are not so familiar with diffuse thinking. Turns out that this more
relaxed thinking style is related to a set of neural resting state.
• We are going to use analogy of the game. Of pinball to help us
understand these two thinking modes
• Incidentally, both metaphor and analogy are really helpful when you are
trying to learn something new.
• If you remember, a pinball game works by, you pull back on the plunger,
release it, and a ball goes
• bonking out , bouncing around on the rubber bumpers, and that's how
you get points.
• So here is your brain, with the ears right here ,and the eyes looking
upwards. And we can lay that pinball machine right down inside it. So
there you go. There is the analogy for the focused mode.
• The blue bumper bumpers here are placed very close to one another.
See this orange pattern here towards the top? It represents a familiar
thought pattern.
Lecture notes:
• Maybe involving something simple like adding some
numbers , or more advanced ideas like literary
criticism or calculating electromagnetic flows.
• You think a thought, boom(Great/amazing), it takes
off, moves smoothly along. And then, as it's bouncing
around on the bumpers, you are able to figure out the
problem you are trying to solve, or the concept you
are trying to
• Understand that's related to something you are
rather familiar with.
• So look at how that thought moves smoothly around
on the fuzzy underlying orange neural pathway.
Lecture notes:
• In some sense it is as if it's traveling along a familiar, nicely paved
road.
• But what if the problem you are working on needs new ideas or
approaches?
• Concepts you haven't thought of before. That is symbolized here
by this neural pattern. Towards the bottom of the pinball machine
area.
• But if you haven't thought that thought before, you don't even
know how that pattern feels or where it is.
• So how are you going to develop that new thought in the first
place?
• Not only do you not know where the pattern is or what the
pattern looks like, but see all the rubber bumpers that are
blocking your access whatever direction you do decide to move
in?
Lecture notes:
• To get to this new thought pattern, you need a different way of
thinking. And that represented here,
• By the DIFFUSE MODE. Look at how widely spaced the rubber
bumpers are.
• Thought takes off, look at how it moves widely, bounces around. It
could travel a long way before being
• Interrupted by hitting a bumper. In this diffuse mode of thinking, you
can look a things broadly from a very different, big-picture
perspective.
• You can make new neutral connections traveling along new
pathways. You can't focus In as tightly as you often need to, to
finalize any kind of problem solving or understand the finest aspects
of a concept. But you can at least get to the initial place you need to
be in to home in on a solution.
• Now as far as neuroscientists know right now, you are either in the
focused mode or the diffused mode.
Lecture notes:
• It seems you can't be in both thinking modes at
the same time. It's kind of like a coin.
• We can see either one side, or the other side of
the coin. But not both sides at the same time.
• Being in one mode seems to limit your access to
the other mode's way of thinking.
• In our next video we are going to see how some
extraordinary people access their diffuse ways of
thinking
• To do great things

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