Good evening to everybody,

I’d post a first feedback about the course that I am taking. I have found very interesting the Mooc already mentioned by a colleague, which is, "Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects" and I have chosen to take it since the topic of the personal development has always interested me and I have thought that it could be useful to me. In the first week the course focused on the description of the brain function, the working memory and the long-term one and it introduced the learning modes (diffuse mode and focus mode) and some techniques that help us to improve our way to learn. The technique that fascinated me most is called "pomodoro" and it suggests to focus on studying a specific topic for 25 minutes, take a break and get a reward. I’ve already used this technique but with no success.. I’ll keep trying!

Last night I’ve listened to the interview of the Dr. Robert Bilder who directs the consortium for Neuropsychiatric Phenomics, which is a team of more than 50 investigators most centered at the University of California in Los Angeles. During this interview he was talking about a video called “power ten” (I haven’t found the same and exactly video he was talking about, but I’ve found another one that works at the same way at this link

The purpose of this video is to stimulate the creativity and to use it as a problem-solving mechanism,trying to figure out what's the higher altitude view, stepping back from a problem and thinking about well, why am I doing this? What's the bigger picture?

This seems to me a good point of reflection and I’ll try to apply it when it’s gonna be possible.

Regards,

Arianna