The Psychology Of Optimal Learning
Understanding the key processes that drive your learning can help turbo-boost your career.
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
— Plutarch
Introducing: The Software That Powers Your Brain
In the previous blog post, on the Neuroscience of Learning we explored the hardware infrastructure that runs your most important learning software — ie. the physiology of the Brain.
Now we move on to explore what could be described in some sense as the operating system:
An operating system is computer software that manages hardware and resources. It acts as an intermediary between programs and the computer hardware.
Our brain operates, controls and regulates all conscious and unconscious thoughts and tasks both voluntary such as walking or talking and involuntary like our heartbeat or respiration.
Likewise, we can take the analogy further so the user interface corresponds to the input to the brain from the senses and language and motion as output.
The nearest thing we have that could be described as software is the data that our brain holds…
