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Learning to Learn by Barbara Oakley — Part 1
The idea about learning backed by science is always interesting since it reflects the way of long life learner actually doing.
Barbara Oakley has been experiencing adventurous life since early childhood. She had moved 10 difference places already when she was in tenth grade. She loved to learn language so she joined military. Because of that, she could learn another language without paying. She learned Russian in the military and changed profession to be a crew in big Russian fishing ship (a kind of trawl boat). Finally she ended up in Antarctica where she met her husband.
Having rich experience makes her gaining a new perspectives. She realized that she was being used to by always gaining new perspectives. It is like having adventurous is becoming sort of a comfortable thing. But she was not actually stretching herself to really have a totally new perspectives.
She thought back when she was in the military and worked with West Point engineers who have exceptional problem-solving skills. They could think in a way that she could not think. For instance, they read and “communicated” with the equations below. Questions arise, what if we could read the equations like they could read the equations? Or in some sense, could we learn the language that they were able to speak? Could we actually change our brain to learn in…
