What metacognition/metacognitive knowledge and skills can you share?
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This might sound a bit simplistic, but try different things. Different people process info in different ways, and you'll never figure out what you don't know that you don't know if you don't consider different perspectives.
I have several teammates at work that process information better by having meetings and talking through various projects and concepts whereas I need to throw on headphones, become dead to the world, and focus to achieve my best state for thinking through things. I retain information better by typing or writing it out by hand, which I attribute to growing up with video games.
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Do you run real or thought experiments often? I find that very useful whenever i notice a result is off or something parameterizable. Like, what can i tweak to alter the result
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I wouldn't say 'often', but I definitely do. My work has a quarterly process meeting where we talk through new things everyone has learned and figure out ways we can add to our procedures and put those thoughts and methods down on paper. It's not my favorite to talk through things, TBH, but I always learn new things when we have those roundtables.
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Watching HealthyGamerGG on yt
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There are techniques to expand your working memory, such as chunking and spaced repetition.
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Wat have you learned from Dr K?
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To help remember something, write it on the roof of your mouth with your tongue. My mother had me do this when I had to memorize states and capitols in fifth grade. I aced the test.
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That sounds like it would take a ton of time haha. Is it more for a one off kind of thing?
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Yeah, I suppose so. I only did it once in each instance. The act of thinking about it in such a way (involving motor coordination) did something to help embed the information. Sort of like how the act of writing is apparently more useful for memory than typing (something I have read but not verified).
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What fo you think about memory palaces?
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Your brain is inconsistent, use external tools to stay focused on your core thoughts better. Pick some thoughts that you want to stick with long term, I choose metacognition as my primary default thought topic, then if I need to redirect from something unpleasant I switch to that thought track.
Metacognition is a marathon, there isn't one clear better methodology to improve everything about your thinking process, stay open and curious!
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Thinking is attention directed at a thought, then at another thought, and so on. Thus a "train of thought".
This movement of attention is usually guided by habit, sometimes by reason, sometimes other ways.
Getting a better handle on your attention would naturally lead to getting a better handle on your thinking.
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Not to try and problem solve everything when people talk to me about their problems, and just share their emotions and be there with them.
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A few things come to mind.
- "Neurons that fire together wire together."
- Stimulating neurons will enhance its connectivity. The more it gets stimulated, the more readily available it will be. This goes for conscious actions and non-conscious actions (Example: focusing on mathematics and reacting to violence). Imagination can be used to simulate reality, hence stimulate target neurons.
- The most difficult neurons to target are those that expand your limits as it requires you to think about things you never knew you could think of, do things you never knew you could do, feel things you never knew you could feel, experience things that you never knew you could experience.
Source: My journey in attempts to recover from a brain injury.
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I think 3 is sort of engaged by when you're ready to hailmary and say "screw it, lets do it!"
About to use that in a few days to challenge a mild obstacle I've been otherwise reticent about or thats been influencing me unduly that I need to say so what and fuck it
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Well, today I learned the roof of my mouth is ticklish. I can’t even get through one letter!
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You can think without language, or senses. It's hard to perceive it, but when you talk inside your head, you are kinda "transcribing" that language-less thought.
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Can you explain further?
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For me spaced repetition and writing things down help.
