Questions to ask yourself to challenge your intuition:<ul><li>How do you know?</li><li>Says who?</li><li>How specifically?</li><li>How does what I’m doing cause you to…?</li><li>Compared to what or whom?</li><li>Does it always happen?</li><li>Can you think of an exception?</li><li>What would happen if you did (or didn’t)?</li><li>What stops you from…?</li></ul>

Challenge Your Intuition

<ul><li>Survey: Scan the table of contents and chapter summaries for an overview.</li><li>Question: Note any questions you have.</li><li>Read: Read in its entirety.</li><li>Recite: Summarize, take notes, and put in your own words.</li><li>Review: Reread, expand notes, and discuss with colleagues.</li></ul>

Make Reading More Effective

<ul>
<li>Give yourself permission to fail; it’s the path to success.</li>
<li>Groove your mind for success through envisioning it.</li>
<li>Learn to pay attention.</li>
<li>Make thinking time.</li>
<li>Use a personal wiki to organize your knowledge and learning.</li>
<li>Establish rules of engagement to manage interruptions.</li>
<li>Send less email and you’ll receive less.</li>
<li>Choose your own tempo for an email conversation, you can slow it down.</li>
<li>Hide interruptions to maintain focus.</li>
<li>Use multiple monitors to avoid context switching.</li>
<li>Optimize your personal workflow to maximize context.</li>
<li>Grab the wheel, you can’t steer on autopilot.</li>
</ul>

Better Retention And Organization

<ul>
<li>You can’t just rely on a good teacher. A teacher doesn’t just teach, a student must also do the learning, and you must know how to learn effectively.</li>
<li>Uncorrected problems that you’re aware of only get worse. Fix them as soon as possible.</li>
</ul>

Other Notes

<ul>
<li>Hedge your bets with diversity.</li>
<li>Allow for different bugs in different people.</li>
<li>Act like you’ve evolved, breathe, don’t hiss.</li>
<li>Trust intuition, but verify.</li>
<li>Create SMART objectives to reach your goals.</li>
<li>Plan your investment in learning deliberately and developing your mind.</li>
<li>Discover how you learn best, it might not be like other people.</li>
<li>Form study groups to learn and teach.</li>
<li> Read deliberately.</li>
<li>To learn better: see it, do it, and teach it.</li>
<li>Play more in order to learn more.</li>
<li>Learn from similarities, unlearn from differences.</li>
<li>Explore, invent, and apply in your environment—safely.</li>
<li>See without judging and then act.</li>
</ul>

Tips And Tricks: Better Thinking And Learning

If you can’t think of three ways a plan can go wrong or three different solution to a problem, then you haven’t thought about it hard enough.

The Rule of Three

The planning is more important than the plan. 
Just because your plan is likely to change doesn’t mean planning isn’t valuable.

Planning Is Important Even If There Is Deviation

<ul>
<li>Capture all of your ideas, such as in a notebook, to get more of them.</li>
<li>Strive for good design, it really works better.</li>
<li>The more senses you engage in a task, the more involved and focused your brain will be. Fiddling, music, walking, etc.</li>
<li>Step away from the keyboard from time to time to solve hard problems.</li>
<li>Change your viewpoint to solve the problem: look at it in reverse, or exaggerate it.</li>
<li>Watch for outliers: rarely doesn’t mean never.</li>
<li> Be comfortable with uncertainty.</li>
<li>Trust ink over memory, every mental read is a write.</li>
</ul>

Learning How To Learn

<ul>
<li>Always consider the context. Everything is a part of a system, and you can get into trouble by only considering things in isolation.</li>
<li>Use rules for novices, intuition for experts. This is one of the core principles of the Dreyfus skill model.</li>
<li>Know what you don’t know, be humble about your understanding and assume you don’t have a complete understanding or the full picture.</li>
<li> Learn by watching and imitating, not by being lectured at.</li>
<li>Keep practicing in order to remain an expert.</li>
<li>Avoid formal methods if you need creativity, intuition, or inventiveness.</li>
</ul>

The Recipe For Learning

Printed in full color. Software development happens in your head. Not in an editor, IDE, or designtool. You're well educated on how to work with software and hardware, but what about wetware--our own brains? Learning new skills and new technology is critical to your career, and it's all in your head. In this book by Andy Hunt, you'll learn how our brains are wired, and how to take advantage of your brain's architecture. You'll learn new tricks and tipsto learn more, faster, and retain more of what you learn. You need a pragmatic approach to thinking and learning. You need to Refactor Your Wetware. Programmers have to learn constantly; not just the stereotypical new technologies, but also the problem domain of the application, the whims of the user community, the quirks of your teammates, the shifting sands of the industry, and the evolving characteristics of the project itself as it is built. We'll journey together through bits of cognitive and neuroscience, learning and behavioral theory. You'll see some surprising aspects of how our brains work, and how you can take advantage of the system to improve your own learning and thinking skills. In this book you'll learn how to: Use the Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition to become more expert Leverage the architecture of the brain to strengthen different thinking modes Avoid common "known bugs" in your mind Learn more deliberately and more effectively Manage knowledge more efficiently

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Printed in full color. Software development happens in your head. Not in an editor, IDE, or designtool. You're well educated on how to work with software and hardware, but what about wetware--our own brains? Learning new skills and new technology is critical to your career, and it's all in your head. In this book by Andy Hunt, you'll learn how our brains are wired, and how to take advantage of your brain's architecture. You'll learn new tricks and tipsto learn more, faster, and retain more of what you learn. You need a pragmatic approach to thinking and learning. You need to Refactor Your Wetware. Programmers have to learn constantly; not just the stereotypical new technologies, but also the problem domain of the application, the whims of the user community, the quirks of your teammates, the shifting sands of the industry, and the evolving characteristics of the project itself as it is built. We'll journey together through bits of cognitive and neuroscience, learning and behavioral theory. You'll see some surprising aspects of how our brains work, and how you can take advantage of the system to improve your own learning and thinking skills.In this book you'll learn how to: Use the Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition to become more expert Leverage the architecture of the brain to strengthen different thinking modes Avoid common &quot;known bugs&quot; in your mind Learn more deliberately and more effectively Manage knowledge more efficiently