This presentation by Michael Melloch goes over effective study/learning habits and the science behind them. Similar to other lectures by Dr. Melloch, this presentation was superbly organized where major concepts are supported by intriguing visuals and interesting scientific studies. Learning habits is definitely not the most exciting topic, but Dr. Melloch kept me entertained and interested the entire seminar!
Dr. Melloch discusses the importance of sleep, the impact of alcohol, the plasticity of the brain, as well as nutrition and wellness. As someone who tends to do 10+ hour last-minute study sessions at the cost of sleeping before exams, this seminar was a big wake-up call for me. My study habits are apparently the exact opposite of what is ideal, but I'm glad that I now know what to do going forwards. I think this seminar should be given to freshmen during First Year Engineering, as this is important information that all students should know before getting into more advanced coursework.
Professor Melloch mainly focused on the physiological and mental aspects of learning. According to the professor, sleep is the most important aspect of learning. He used scientific experiments to prove that good sleep helps in building long-term memory, and lack of sleep can damage the neurons for memories and bring bad tempers and illnesses. I completely agree with this statement as I have experienced sleep deprivation, which not only damaged my physical health but also affected my concentration and focus. The professor also emphasized the importance of nutrition in brain functioning. It's crucial to have a balanced diet that can provide enough energy for the body to digest food properly. The suggestions about nutrition depend on each individual's genetic aspect, so it's better to know about your own body's needs and follow a suitable diet plan.
Although I found the lecture helpful to maintain a healthy and stable lifestyle, I think it lacked some information on how to learn effectively. I expected more ideas on how to keep focus when learning for long periods. Nonetheless, the lecture gave me a better understanding of the importance of sleep and nutrition in the learning process. Overall, it was an informative lecture, and I would definitely try to follow the suggestions to keep my brain functioning well.
Melloch discusses how to learn here, a very important and often overlooked issue. He starts with some examples and then goes into details including sleep, mindset, self-management, etc. Melloch's speech has a lot of images to show his point. In particular, he was able to demonstrate the process of learning through the physiological changes in the human body as it learns.
But I'm wondering why the second half of the speech has less to do with "how to learn"? He seemed to be out of touch with the subject of the speech. The topic of this talk is "How to Learn", but if I, as a learner, are learning what this talk is about, I don't seem to be able to find his point of view. In particular, in long lectures, he talks like the Sinc function. It grabs my attention quickly in the early stages, but the long speeches in the back can make people drowsy. If learning is about getting to the point quickly, his speech is about turning the point into a tirade. For the vast majority of people, it is more rewarding to spend time on the trunk than on the leaves. Because one more leaf and one less leaf won't affect your pattern. Personally, I recommend greatly shortening the length of the speech and making the speech more ups and downs, such as the Sin function.
Continuing the previous how to learn section, professor continued discussing about other important thing that will be helpful for learning. Most of the things that are helpful for learning in this lecture will be more on physiological and mental aspect for how to learn. The first and also in my opinion the most important aspect would be sleep. The prefessor uses both arguments and scientific experiment results to demonstrate that sleep helps build long term memory, and lack of sleep will damage the neurons for memories and also bring bad tempers and illnesses. I totally agree with the statement, especially right now. Only stayed up late or whole night for a day or 2, I sleep cycle will be seriously damaged and it always accompanies with stomachache, headache, etc that I need to take painkiller to suppress the pain. I cannot image how thrilling sleep deprivation would do to me as it could damage my mental and physical health which will not be covered again in my life, and I could not focus for study for long and will be not energetic and tired for all day long. Other things I found it worthwhile to know is nurition. Having a good strcuture of food to eat will also impact the brain functioning, as the body will need to transfer energy to digest the food you got, such as sugar. This will also follow the your genetic aspect so the suggestions should be mostly from your own control.
Overall, I felt like some of them are very good suggestions to let you keep a very healthy lifestyle and make your brain function well when you awake. I would definitely follow the suggestions. In regards to learning, however, I felt like most of the thing is not meant to help you learn successfully and effectively, but more like suggestions to help give you a healthy, stable lifestyle to follow. Compared to the previous lecture, I think this section would give people more ideas on how to learn better if the advice can be done during study itself. E.g., how to keep focus when learn for a long time, how to plan your everyday study schedule, etc.
This seminar offers many beneficial tips on improving learning performance from both a physical and a mental standpoint. The physical side includes sleep, exercise, meditation and nutrition; the mental side includes mindset and grit. All these aspects are crucial to learning.
I agree with most of the contents, but for the grit section I have a different view. Instead of enhancing grit and self-discipline, it is more important to develop interest in learning. My opinion is that if you need self-discipline to maintain learning status, you are not learning in the right way. In other words, I believe that we need good objectives and motivation before we start learning, so that learning becomes natural and unprompted process.
The slides combined texts, figures, charts and pictures, which helped demonstrate the ideas well. The speech gives an overview at the beginning, and a review of key points at the end, which show a clear structure. The biggest problem of the seminar is that it's too lengthy. There are many experimental facts offered to support the argument. However, it seems to me that there are too many details which should be canceled. Similarly, there are many details of how our physiological status affects our learning performance. They occupy too much of the contents and may distract the audience from focusing on the key ideas and conclusions. Other than this, this seminar is good overall.
First, the professor used a game to spark interest. This is one of my favorite teaching methods. Then, the professor used a human brain experiment data to illustrate the energy supply cut off when sleep. The large experiment about sleep research also proved that brain processes information during sleep. Thus, good sleep is helpful for learning.
In “brain is remarkably plastic”, the professor talked about adult neurogenesis, measured IQ, performed MRI. Moreover, the professor used 1952 Nobel prize for NMR to show the successfully by brain.
In addition, SAT test and GPA in university is close to our life. The professor also said “passion and perseverance for long-term goals”. I love these words and it will also encourage me to learn.
This lecture enumerates a lot of experimental data to make it more convincing. As an engineering student, I am comfortable with numbers and firgure. But the data in this lecture is a bit more like a research report.
I watched and enjoyed the part one of this seminar, so I was excited to watch part two. I was worried that, considering the amount of content that is covered in part one, there might not be much left for part 2. I was pleasantly surprised however, as part II covers a completely different set of concepts compared to part I, mostly focusing on physiological aspects that affect learning, rather than learning strategies. The degree to which Professor Melloch has studied the topic of learning is really incredible, and I would highly recommend all of his seminars that I have seen.
Processor Melloch begins the presentation by discussing the science of sleep, and how it affects learning and overall health. He makes a convincing argument that maintaining a consistent sleep schedule and getting enough sleep is essential to effective learning. A lot of interesting research and data is provided to support this argument. Another key point that Professor Melloch makes is that intelligence is not fixed, and that we have the ability to keep increasing our intelligence over our lifespan because the brain is very flexible and able to adapt. This very much supports my own experience (that working on tough mental problems consistently over years seems to make you smarter), and it was cool to see some data to back up that hunch. He also goes into detail about how lifestyle choices can affect neuroplasticity, and what we can do to maximize the potential of our brains.
Much like in his previous presentation on this topic, Professor Melloch goes through an huge range of ideas, backing them all up with hard data and information from studies. I think the information from this seminar is a bit harder to apply to my everyday life than the concepts he presented in part one of this series, but it is still very interesting / potentially useful.
The quality of the delivery is solid, and I found the presentation engaging and reasonably interesting. On the technical side, the video presentation for this seminar worked really well (high quality, no buffering, loaded immediately). I have had trouble with the web version of some of the other manoHUB seminars, so that was nice.
The presentation from Prof. Melloch is really good. Some of the suggestions and examples are very thought-provoking for me, especially the experiments conducted on the impact of sleeps on solving economic and math problems. The Marshmallow test and mltitasking study are also good examples to help me reflect on my harbits and think about how to improve it. Moreover, I have never heard about the Pomodoro technique before. The steps in the slide are clear and I would like to try the six steps and see if that can help my daily learning.
Overall, the presentation is easy to follow, though there are many new terminologies and examples. Prof. Melloch used many bullet points, comics, and figures of data which made the presentation more vivid. I always believe that the daily harbits can affect the learning a lot but don't know much about how to improve it. But this lecture gives a lot of insights on what and how to do that. This can help the graduate students a lot!
I believe this is a very interesting and inspiring seminar by Professor Melloch. This is a continues seminar after "How to learn I" by Professor Melloch. In the previous seminar, Professor Melloch talked about how our memory affect our learning ability/process. In this seminar, Professor Melloch talk about how sleeping, mindset and ultimatly, our brain affect our learning ability.
Firstly, Professor Melloch talks about our sleeping. It can be a serious problem if human lack of sleep. Effects of lack of sleep including: lack of concentration, immune system problem, emotion problem and memory in-box shut down, etc. It is quite important for people to get enough sleep. Professor Melloch states a lot of research evidence to show us the importance of getting enough sleep and it is very essential for people to learn better to get enough sleep.
Secondly, Professor Melloch talks about several factors might impair our sleeping quality. Drinking is always bad idea before bed, it will affect our sleeping efficiency. Taking a nap is a good idea, it will help us to re-focus and enhance our learning process.
Thirdly, Professor Melloch talks about mindset. We need to maintain a positive mindset, which will help us on learning. We need to keep learning till the day we die, because our brain is very plastic and can be improved lifetime.
In the end, I believe this seminar is very informative and helpful. I highly recommend this seminar to students and people who want to improve their learning ability. Thank you Professor Melloch!
I enjoyed the neuroscience information at the beginning of the lecture. For people people into deep learning, seeing some neurons and brain parts doing specific tasks feels more concrete compared to psychology. This is just playing to an audience though. Computational neuroscience is a closely related field to deep learning.
I found an interesting addition to the growth mindset that could be useful to tell graduate students about in particular. It is the effect of intrinsic motivation on learning and how it relates to the growth mindset. Here is a link to the paper. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5836039/
John Irving is awesome. I love stories about independence and perseverance like his. More cases like his would be great to hear about.
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This presentation by Michael Melloch goes over effective study/learning habits and the science behind them. Similar to other lectures by Dr. Melloch, this presentation was superbly organized where major concepts are supported by intriguing visuals and interesting scientific studies. Learning habits is definitely not the most exciting topic, but Dr. Melloch kept me entertained and interested the entire seminar!
Dr. Melloch discusses the importance of sleep, the impact of alcohol, the plasticity of the brain, as well as nutrition and wellness. As someone who tends to do 10+ hour last-minute study sessions at the cost of sleeping before exams, this seminar was a big wake-up call for me. My study habits are apparently the exact opposite of what is ideal, but I'm glad that I now know what to do going forwards. I think this seminar should be given to freshmen during First Year Engineering, as this is important information that all students should know before getting into more advanced coursework.
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Professor Melloch mainly focused on the physiological and mental aspects of learning. According to the professor, sleep is the most important aspect of learning. He used scientific experiments to prove that good sleep helps in building long-term memory, and lack of sleep can damage the neurons for memories and bring bad tempers and illnesses. I completely agree with this statement as I have experienced sleep deprivation, which not only damaged my physical health but also affected my concentration and focus. The professor also emphasized the importance of nutrition in brain functioning. It's crucial to have a balanced diet that can provide enough energy for the body to digest food properly. The suggestions about nutrition depend on each individual's genetic aspect, so it's better to know about your own body's needs and follow a suitable diet plan.
Although I found the lecture helpful to maintain a healthy and stable lifestyle, I think it lacked some information on how to learn effectively. I expected more ideas on how to keep focus when learning for long periods. Nonetheless, the lecture gave me a better understanding of the importance of sleep and nutrition in the learning process. Overall, it was an informative lecture, and I would definitely try to follow the suggestions to keep my brain functioning well.
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Melloch discusses how to learn here, a very important and often overlooked issue. He starts with some examples and then goes into details including sleep, mindset, self-management, etc. Melloch's speech has a lot of images to show his point. In particular, he was able to demonstrate the process of learning through the physiological changes in the human body as it learns.
But I'm wondering why the second half of the speech has less to do with "how to learn"? He seemed to be out of touch with the subject of the speech. The topic of this talk is "How to Learn", but if I, as a learner, are learning what this talk is about, I don't seem to be able to find his point of view. In particular, in long lectures, he talks like the Sinc function. It grabs my attention quickly in the early stages, but the long speeches in the back can make people drowsy. If learning is about getting to the point quickly, his speech is about turning the point into a tirade. For the vast majority of people, it is more rewarding to spend time on the trunk than on the leaves. Because one more leaf and one less leaf won't affect your pattern. Personally, I recommend greatly shortening the length of the speech and making the speech more ups and downs, such as the Sin function.
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Continuing the previous how to learn section, professor continued discussing about other important thing that will be helpful for learning. Most of the things that are helpful for learning in this lecture will be more on physiological and mental aspect for how to learn. The first and also in my opinion the most important aspect would be sleep. The prefessor uses both arguments and scientific experiment results to demonstrate that sleep helps build long term memory, and lack of sleep will damage the neurons for memories and also bring bad tempers and illnesses. I totally agree with the statement, especially right now. Only stayed up late or whole night for a day or 2, I sleep cycle will be seriously damaged and it always accompanies with stomachache, headache, etc that I need to take painkiller to suppress the pain. I cannot image how thrilling sleep deprivation would do to me as it could damage my mental and physical health which will not be covered again in my life, and I could not focus for study for long and will be not energetic and tired for all day long. Other things I found it worthwhile to know is nurition. Having a good strcuture of food to eat will also impact the brain functioning, as the body will need to transfer energy to digest the food you got, such as sugar. This will also follow the your genetic aspect so the suggestions should be mostly from your own control.
Overall, I felt like some of them are very good suggestions to let you keep a very healthy lifestyle and make your brain function well when you awake. I would definitely follow the suggestions. In regards to learning, however, I felt like most of the thing is not meant to help you learn successfully and effectively, but more like suggestions to help give you a healthy, stable lifestyle to follow. Compared to the previous lecture, I think this section would give people more ideas on how to learn better if the advice can be done during study itself. E.g., how to keep focus when learn for a long time, how to plan your everyday study schedule, etc.
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This seminar offers many beneficial tips on improving learning performance from both a physical and a mental standpoint. The physical side includes sleep, exercise, meditation and nutrition; the mental side includes mindset and grit. All these aspects are crucial to learning.
I agree with most of the contents, but for the grit section I have a different view. Instead of enhancing grit and self-discipline, it is more important to develop interest in learning. My opinion is that if you need self-discipline to maintain learning status, you are not learning in the right way. In other words, I believe that we need good objectives and motivation before we start learning, so that learning becomes natural and unprompted process.
The slides combined texts, figures, charts and pictures, which helped demonstrate the ideas well. The speech gives an overview at the beginning, and a review of key points at the end, which show a clear structure. The biggest problem of the seminar is that it's too lengthy. There are many experimental facts offered to support the argument. However, it seems to me that there are too many details which should be canceled. Similarly, there are many details of how our physiological status affects our learning performance. They occupy too much of the contents and may distract the audience from focusing on the key ideas and conclusions. Other than this, this seminar is good overall.
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First, the professor used a game to spark interest. This is one of my favorite teaching methods. Then, the professor used a human brain experiment data to illustrate the energy supply cut off when sleep. The large experiment about sleep research also proved that brain processes information during sleep. Thus, good sleep is helpful for learning.
In “brain is remarkably plastic”, the professor talked about adult neurogenesis, measured IQ, performed MRI. Moreover, the professor used 1952 Nobel prize for NMR to show the successfully by brain.
In addition, SAT test and GPA in university is close to our life. The professor also said “passion and perseverance for long-term goals”. I love these words and it will also encourage me to learn.
This lecture enumerates a lot of experimental data to make it more convincing. As an engineering student, I am comfortable with numbers and firgure. But the data in this lecture is a bit more like a research report.
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I watched and enjoyed the part one of this seminar, so I was excited to watch part two. I was worried that, considering the amount of content that is covered in part one, there might not be much left for part 2. I was pleasantly surprised however, as part II covers a completely different set of concepts compared to part I, mostly focusing on physiological aspects that affect learning, rather than learning strategies. The degree to which Professor Melloch has studied the topic of learning is really incredible, and I would highly recommend all of his seminars that I have seen.
Processor Melloch begins the presentation by discussing the science of sleep, and how it affects learning and overall health. He makes a convincing argument that maintaining a consistent sleep schedule and getting enough sleep is essential to effective learning. A lot of interesting research and data is provided to support this argument. Another key point that Professor Melloch makes is that intelligence is not fixed, and that we have the ability to keep increasing our intelligence over our lifespan because the brain is very flexible and able to adapt. This very much supports my own experience (that working on tough mental problems consistently over years seems to make you smarter), and it was cool to see some data to back up that hunch. He also goes into detail about how lifestyle choices can affect neuroplasticity, and what we can do to maximize the potential of our brains.
Much like in his previous presentation on this topic, Professor Melloch goes through an huge range of ideas, backing them all up with hard data and information from studies. I think the information from this seminar is a bit harder to apply to my everyday life than the concepts he presented in part one of this series, but it is still very interesting / potentially useful.
The quality of the delivery is solid, and I found the presentation engaging and reasonably interesting. On the technical side, the video presentation for this seminar worked really well (high quality, no buffering, loaded immediately). I have had trouble with the web version of some of the other manoHUB seminars, so that was nice.
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The presentation from Prof. Melloch is really good. Some of the suggestions and examples are very thought-provoking for me, especially the experiments conducted on the impact of sleeps on solving economic and math problems. The Marshmallow test and mltitasking study are also good examples to help me reflect on my harbits and think about how to improve it. Moreover, I have never heard about the Pomodoro technique before. The steps in the slide are clear and I would like to try the six steps and see if that can help my daily learning.
Overall, the presentation is easy to follow, though there are many new terminologies and examples. Prof. Melloch used many bullet points, comics, and figures of data which made the presentation more vivid. I always believe that the daily harbits can affect the learning a lot but don't know much about how to improve it. But this lecture gives a lot of insights on what and how to do that. This can help the graduate students a lot!
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I believe this is a very interesting and inspiring seminar by Professor Melloch. This is a continues seminar after "How to learn I" by Professor Melloch. In the previous seminar, Professor Melloch talked about how our memory affect our learning ability/process. In this seminar, Professor Melloch talk about how sleeping, mindset and ultimatly, our brain affect our learning ability.
Firstly, Professor Melloch talks about our sleeping. It can be a serious problem if human lack of sleep. Effects of lack of sleep including: lack of concentration, immune system problem, emotion problem and memory in-box shut down, etc. It is quite important for people to get enough sleep. Professor Melloch states a lot of research evidence to show us the importance of getting enough sleep and it is very essential for people to learn better to get enough sleep.
Secondly, Professor Melloch talks about several factors might impair our sleeping quality. Drinking is always bad idea before bed, it will affect our sleeping efficiency. Taking a nap is a good idea, it will help us to re-focus and enhance our learning process.
Thirdly, Professor Melloch talks about mindset. We need to maintain a positive mindset, which will help us on learning. We need to keep learning till the day we die, because our brain is very plastic and can be improved lifetime.
In the end, I believe this seminar is very informative and helpful. I highly recommend this seminar to students and people who want to improve their learning ability. Thank you Professor Melloch!
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I enjoyed the neuroscience information at the beginning of the lecture. For people people into deep learning, seeing some neurons and brain parts doing specific tasks feels more concrete compared to psychology. This is just playing to an audience though. Computational neuroscience is a closely related field to deep learning.
I found an interesting addition to the growth mindset that could be useful to tell graduate students about in particular. It is the effect of intrinsic motivation on learning and how it relates to the growth mindset. Here is a link to the paper. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5836039/
John Irving is awesome. I love stories about independence and perseverance like his. More cases like his would be great to hear about.
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