Be invested in your learning tell other people let other people hold you accountable for the things that you committed to do but be careful if you get enough praise you can receive too much dopamine and not end up doing the task. You could also have a negative consequence like giving money to a friend

Be Invested in Your Learning 

Make sure you are attentive while learning anything. Some ways that you can be attentive is by <ol><li>Drinking caffeine </li><li>Staying fully Hydra</li></ol>

Be Attentive While Learning 

<ul><li>You can also accelerate learning by doing brief naps after your learning for about 20 minutes that helps tremendously</li><li>Not focusing or thinking about any specific after a bout of learning can significantly improve the rate at which is you attain knowledge </li></ul>

Other Tips On Learning 

The typical learning bout should be 90 minutes that is a good amount of time

How Long Should You Learn 

You can improve your focus while learning by focus on a small part of your screen for 90-120 seconds at a time it will help your whole brain focus

Improve Your Focus 

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The first step in learning something new is to prime your brain and let your brain know that you are about to learn something new by focusing. Every experience doesn’t change your brain only the ones that are specific so consciously make a decision to learn something new. Your brain doesn’t automatically change

First Step In Learning Something New 

You don’t constantly keep making new neaurons in your brain that is a misconception. Rather we strengthen existing neurons and create new connections in your brain

How To Learn New Things As An Adult

We spend so much time learning this podcast describes why we should try to learn more effectively 

This episode introduces neuroplasticity—which is how our brain and nervous system learn and acquire new capabilities. I describe the differences between childhood and adult neuroplasticity, the chemicals involved and how anyone can increase their rate and depth of learning by leveraging the science of focus. I describe specific tools for increasing focus and learning. The next two episodes will cover the ideal protocols for specific types of learning and how to make learning new information more reflexive.  Thank you to our sponsors  InsideTracker - https://insidetracker.com/huberman   Headspace - https://headspace.com/specialoffer   Madefor - https://getmadefor.com/ -- code: Huberman   Supplements from Thorne: http://www.thorne.com/u/huberman   Reference  Time dilates after spontaneous blinking (Current Biology)  Timestamps  (00:00:00) Introduction  03:50) Plasticity: What Is it, & What Is It For?  06:30) Babies and Potato Bugs  08:00) Customizing Your Brain  08:50) Hard-Wired Versus Plastic Brains  10:25) Everything Changes At 25  12:29) Costello and Your Hearing  13:10) The New Neuron Myth  14:10) Anosmia: Losing Smell  15:13) Neuronal Birthdays Near Our Death Day  16:45) Circumstances for Brain Change  17:21) Brain Space  18:30) No Nose, Eyes, Or Ears  19:30) Enhanced Hearing and Touch In The Blind  20:20) Brain Maps of The Body Plan  21:00) The Kennard Principle (Margaret Kennard)  21:36) Maps of Meaning  23:00) Awareness Cues Brain Change  25:20) The Chemistry of Change  26:15) A Giant Lie In The Universe  27:10) Fathers of Neuroplasticity/Critical Periods  29:30) Competition Is The Route to Plasticity  32:30) Correcting The Errors of History  33:29) Adult Brain Change: Bumps and Beeps  36:25) What It Takes to Learn  38:15) Adrenalin and Alertness  40:18) The Acetylcholine Spotlight  42:26) The Chemical Trio For Massive Brain Change  44:10) Ways To Change Your Brain  46:16) Love, Hate, & Shame: all the same chemical  47:30) The Dopamine Trap  49:40) Nicotine for Focus  52:30) Sprinting  53:30) How to Focus  55:22) Adderall: Use & Abuse  56:40) Seeing Your Way To Mental Focus  1:02:59) Blinking  1:05:30) And Ear Toward Learning  1:06:14) The Best Listeners In The World  1:07:20) Agitation is Key  1:07:40) ADHD & ADD: Attention Deficit (Hyperactivity) Disorder  1:12:00) Ultra(dian) Focus  1:13:30) When Real Change Occurs  1:16:20) How Much Learning Is Enough?  1:16:50) Learning In (Optic) Flow/Mind Drift  1:18:16) Synthesis/Summary  1:25:15) Learning With Repetition, Forming Habits    As always, thank you for your interest in science!  Title Card Photo Credit: Mike Blabac  Disclaimer

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This episode introduces neuroplasticity—which is how our brain and nervous system learn and acquire new capabilities. I describe the differences between childhood and adult neuroplasticity, the chemicals involved and how anyone can increase their rate and depth of learning by leveraging the science of focus. I describe specific tools for increasing focus and learning. The next two episodes will cover the ideal protocols for specific types of learning and how to make learning new information more reflexive. For the full show notes, visit hubermanlab.com. Thank you to our sponsors AG1 (Athletic Greens): https://athleticgreens.com/huberman LMNT: https://drinklmnt.com/huberman Supplements from Momentous https://www.livemomentous.com/huberman Timestamps (00:00:00) Introduction (00:00:32) Sponsors: AG1, LMNT (00:03:50) Plasticity: What Is it, & What Is It For? (00:06:30) Babies and Potato Bugs (00:08:00) Customizing Your Brain (00:08:50) Hard-Wired Versus Plastic Brains (00:10:25) Everything Changes At 25 (00:12:29) Costello and Your Hearing (00:13:10) The New Neuron Myth (00:14:10) Anosmia: Losing Smell (00:15:13) Neuronal Birthdays Near Our Death Day (00:16:45) Circumstances for Brain Change (00:17:21) Brain Space (00:18:30) No Nose, Eyes, Or Ears (00:19:30) Enhanced Hearing and Touch In The Blind (00:20:20) Brain Maps of The Body Plan (00:21:00) The Kennard Principle (Margaret Kennard) (00:21:36) Maps of Meaning (00:23:00) Awareness Cues Brain Change (00:25:20) The Chemistry of Change (00:26:15) A Giant Lie In The Universe 00:27:10) Fathers of Neuroplasticity/Critical Periods 00:29:30) Competition Is The Route to Plasticity 00:32:30) Correcting The Errors of History 00:33:29) Adult Brain Change: Bumps and Beeps (00:36:25) What It Takes to Learn (00:38:15) Adrenalin and Alertness (00:40:18) The Acetylcholine Spotlight (00:42:26) The Chemical Trio For Massive Brain Change (00:44:10) Ways To Change Your Brain (00:46:16) Love, Hate, & Shame: all the same chemical (00:47:30) The Dopamine Trap (00:49:40) Nicotine for Focus (00:52:30) Sprinting (00:53:30) How to Focus (00:55:22) Adderall: Use & Abuse (00:56:40) Seeing Your Way To Mental Focus (01:02:59) Blinking (01:05:30) And Ear Toward Learning (01:06:14) The Best Listeners In The World (01:07:20) Agitation is Key (01:07:40) ADHD & ADD: Attention Deficit (Hyperactivity) Disorder (01:12:00) Ultra(dian) Focus (01:13:30) When Real Change Occurs (01:16:20) How Much Learning Is Enough? (01:16:50) Learning In (Optic) Flow/Mind Drift (01:18:16) Synthesis/Summary (01:25:15) Learning With Repetition, Forming Habits As always, thank you for your interest in science! Title Card Photo Credit: Mike Blabac Disclaimer

Huberman Lab discusses neuroscience: how our brain and its connections with the organs of our body control our perceptions, our behaviors, and our health. We also discuss existing and emerging tools for measuring and changing how our nervous system works. Dr. Andrew Huberman is a tenured professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. His laboratory studies neural regeneration, neuroplasticity, and brain states such as stress, focus, fear, and optimal performance. For more than 20 years, Dr. Huberman has consistently published original research findings and review articles in top-level peer-reviewed journals, including Nature, Science, Cell, Neuron, and Current Biology. He is a regular member of several National Institutes of Health review panels and a Fellow of the McKnight Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts. Dr. Huberman regularly consults for technology development companies, professional athletic organizations, and various units of U.S. and Canadian Special Operations.

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How to Focus to Change Your Brain

How to Focus to Change Your Brain | Episode 6

We can all be better communicators and presenters and humans when we remember:<ul><li>We don’t like messages that remind us we aren’t in control.</li><li>We don’t like to feel pressure to conform.</li><li>We need tough messages to be delivered calmly.</li><li>We like to have choices.</li><li>We don’t want to be bombarded with communication.</li></ul>

Becoming better communicators

<ul><li>Understand what you are asking: this means understanding your message from the perspective of the audience. And then, it’s creating a targeted and effective message based on that understanding.</li><li>Soften your delivery when the content is tough: If the content is already tough, the delivery needs to be softer.</li><li> Don’t oversell or overcommunicate. You might think that more communication, more messages, a longer presentation will help you persuade the audience and assure our intended response. Research shows that’s not the case.</li></ul>

How to avoid the Boomerang Effect

The boomerang effect happens when you deliver a message hoping to produce a certain response or reaction, but the reaction turns out to be the opposite of what you had hoped it would be.Some of it stems from a natural desire not to conform. For those who have a stronger natural inclination to assert their autonomy and independence, doing the opposite of what you are asked or told is a way to communicate that you are in control. The boomerang effect is also sometimes called the psychological reactance theory.

The Boomerang Effect

The boomerang effect theory shows that our messages can sometimes produce the opposite effect of what we had hoped. Let's learn more.

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<ul><li>Plus: Find mentors, real (maybe someone from your work) or virtual (from books). Learn from someone with more experience than you.</li><li>Minus: Explain what you are learning while you are learning it. Teach someone with less experience than you.</li><li>Equal: Find people who love what you love and spend as much time talking about this shared area as you can.</li></ul>

Plus, Minus, Equal

This rule was developed by Anders Ericsson and popularised by Malcolm Gladwell and states that we need 10,000 hours of deliberate practice to succeed at anything. This may create feelings of frustration, especially if you feel you don't have enough time.

Hack the 10,000 hour rule

Try to improve 1% a day at whatever it is you are trying to learn.This seems like a small number. But 1% a day, compounded, is 3800% per year.

The 1 percent rule

Every skill worth learning has dozens of micro-skills.List the micro-skills. Figure out what you are good at, what you are bad at, and how you can learn to be better at each.

Micro-Skills

When you start learning something, you're usually pretty bad at it. This applies to everything worth learning.But that's good news. You can’t learn as much from succeeding because it’s harder to pinpoint where mistakes are.

Failure

Without energy, you can’t learn.If you don’t sleep enough, you’ll be too tired and you won’t learn. If you’re in a bad relationship, your brain will be distracted and you won’t learn.

Energy

You can’t get better at chess just by reading about it. You have to play. Then you have to play in high stress situations (like a tournament).

Do it

I hate learning. I wanted to learn how to trade stocks and I ended up losing my home. I wanted to learn how to play chess better and in one of my first tournaments I threw all the pieces on the floor and cried. I wanted to learn to play poker and I lost about ...

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Seven Steps To Learn and Master Anything As Quickly As Possible

Even if you think it’s too big of a dream but it’s something you want, write it down anyway. When you write something down, studies say you’ll be 33% more likely to do it because it sets an intention and puts a goal into motion.

A Long-Term Goals List

When you are working on a project with others, create project lists that detail tasks and assign responsibilities.This helps you avoid micromanaging.

A Project List

If you have an upcoming meeting or an important phone call, create a list of things you want to discuss, so you don’t risk forgetting something. Keep this list handy on your desk, so when things pop in your mind you can jot them down.

A Talking-Points List

When you’re making an important decision, create a list of pros and cons. This list makes you dig down deep.It can also help to share your list with someone else or ask a friend or partner to help brainstorm more pros and cons. This list gives you the clarity you need to make good decisions.

A Pros and Cons List

<ul><li>Look at everything on your to-do list and ask yourself, ‘Am I the only person who can do this?’</li><li>Anything that can be given to someone else should be put on an outsource list.</li><li> While outsourcing takes the extra time upfront to train someone else on the task, it saves you time later, which can be used to focus on the things you do have to do. </li></ul>

An Outsource List

<ul><li>You should only put things on a to-do list that you have the time and resources to achieve. </li><li>Big goals and projects should be broken down into actionable tasks.</li><li>It helps to match the action with your productivity levels.</li><li>If something doesn’t get done, reevaluate the task at the end of the day. </li></ul>

A Specific Daily To-Do List

Your brain is for thinking, not for storing a long list of random things you need to do. "When you're juggling a lot of tasks, things will fall through the cracks, and lists are amazing for keeping yourself on target and getting things done," says Paula Rizzo, author of Listful Thinking: Using Lists to Be More Productive, Highly Successful, and Less Stressed .

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Image: Depositphotos.com <ul><li>Healthy eating is associated with better self-esteem and fewer emotional problems and higher productivity.</li><li>Regardless of body weight, eating healthy is an act of self-esteem and self-love.</li><li>What we eat is related to our health, our energy level, our concentration and our mood.</li></ul>

4. They choose good food for the brain: they prefer natural, unprocessed foods

Image: Depositphotos.com <ul><li>Identify how you want to feel today. Identify how you want to serve the world today, how you could have a greater impact on the people with whom you will have contact today.</li><li>Find out how you can get one step closer to your goals.</li><li>Define the quality and frequency of thoughts you want to maintain during the day.</li><li>This simple practice allows us to be more attentive in the day, in control of our actions and achieve our goals.</li></ul>

2. Create a daily purpose

Image: Depositphotos.com <ul><li>It is a collection of activities that you create for yourself, before starting your day. Activities that lead you to having a great day and that somehow establish a positive mindset.</li><li>Hydrate your body, meditate, exercise, healthy breakfast, read, talk with your children, drink tea with your partner. All this before social networks, phone calls, WhatsApp or opening your computer to work.</li></ul>

1. They have a clear morning routine that is  non-negotiable

Image: Depositphotos.com Although they are passionate about their work, they respect schedules (as well as entry) and exit and clear their mind during the day by moving away from screens every certain time.

7. They take breaks on a regular basis

Image: Depositphotos.com <ul><li>Whether you include it in your morning routine or at some other time of the day but do physical activity at least three times a week</li><li>Science proves that exercise optimizes your brain, your mood and your ability to concentrate, which optimizes your performance.</li><li>78% of people who consider themselves extremely happy do physical activity at least three times a week.</li><li>Harvard says that aerobic exercise is key for your head, just as it is for your heart. Counteracts depression and stress and reduces anxiety</li></ul>

3. They carry out physical activity

Being happy and <a href="https://www.entrepreneur.com/topic/productividad">feeling productive </a>means self-realization, reaching the goals of a human being. It is a "state of great spiritual and physical satisfaction."Our key to being happy, having energy and having a productive life: “create a system with rituals / habits” .Rituals are an excellent way to give ourselves structure, an opportunity to make positive changes in our lives, create the formula to feel better and achieve our goals. The secret is to make these rituals part of our daily routine.

Importance of Habits 

Image: Depositphotos.com <ul><li>Harvard's longest study of happiness found that healthy relationships are the most consistent predictor of a happy person.</li><li>Having a few close relationships has also been found to help us live longer and better quality lives. So it is the connections in our lives that make life worthwhile.</li></ul>

5. They have quality personal relationships

Image: Depositphotos.com They meditate, they give thanks, they pay attention to their thoughts.Share with me what habits you do during the day that help you maximize productivity.

8. Train your mind

Image: Depositphotos.com <ul><li>Research shows that if you constantly rush, you will feel miserable. On the other hand, studies suggest that having nothing to do can also backfire on the brain.</li><li>It is best when you are living a productive life but at a comfortable pace. Expand your comfort zone, but not so much that you feel overwhelmed.</li><li>The best advice here is to say no to the things you are not excited about, and yes to the things you can say "Sure you are!"</li></ul>

6. They stay busy but not in a rush

Happiness is like going to the gym. You have to train daily and the more you exercise it, the better it will be.

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Seven Steps To Learn and Master Anything As Quickly As Possible

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The Six Lists You Need To Make Every Day Productive

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Read like a Pro.