Learning the new eras of #learn

Learning of new things is a challenge in itself. For learning something new you have to use both of your fundamental thinking modes that are diffuse and focused mode. we are already fimiliar with focuse mode in which you just have to concentrate intently on something you’re trying to learn or to understand. But we’re not so familiar with diffuse thinking. Turns out that this more relaxed thinking style is related to a set of neural resting states. But in my opinion diffuse mode is better than focused because in diffuse mode you can you can make new neural connections traveling along new pathways. You can’t focus in as tightly as you often need to, to finalize any kind of problem solving. Or understand the finest aspects of a concept. But you can at least get to the initial place you need to be in to home in on a solution.

But here is the problem you can’t use both modes at a time. You’re either in the focused mode or the diffuse mode of thinking. It seems you can’t be in both thinking modes at the same time. It’s kind of like a coin. We can see either one side, or the other side of the coin. But not both sides at the same time. Being in one mode seems to limit your access to the other mode’s way of thinking.

And Mr.Edison gives us the solution of upper problem. What he was used to do is, he’d sit and relax in his chair, holding ball bearings in his hand. He’d relax away letting his mind run free, although it would often noodle back in a much more relaxed way to what he’d been focusing on previously.When Edison would fall asleep, the ball bearings would drop and clatter to the ground . And it would wake Edison up and off he’d go with his ideas from the diffuse mode, ready to take them into the focused mode and build on them. So the bottom line is, when you’re learning something new, especially something that’s a little more difficult, your mind needs to be able to go back and forth between the two different learning modes. That’s what helps you learn effectively.

And finally, we learn that learning something difficult can take time. Your brain needs to alternate its ways of learning as it grapples with and assimilates the new material.