Advice Goddess Radio, LIVE (*different time!), 6-7 pm PT: Dr. Barbara Oakley On How To Retrain Your Brain And Learn How To Learn
Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio: "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in science.
Dr. Barbara Oakley has written an incredibly helpful book on learning how to learn math and science. But, yoohoo, math-loathers, this book -- and this show -- are about much more than that.
Both the book and tonight's show are about techniques you can start employing immediately that will show you how to do your work and your creative work more efficiently and ultimately more successfully and satisfyingly.
The proof that these techniques work? Dr. Oakley herself used these techniques to transform from a girl who flunked every math and science course in high school into a tenured professor of engineering. And she currently uses them to curb procrastination, to learn and retain difficult material better and faster, and to increase her creativity in problem-solving and writing.
Dr. Oakley's excellent book we'll be discussing is A Mind For Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)
Listen to the show at this link **at a different time, this week only -- 6-7 p.m. Pacific, 9-10 p.m. Eastern -- or download the podcast afterward at the same link:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon/2014/08/04/dr-barbara-oakley-on-how-to-retrain-your-brain-and-learn-how-to-learn
Don't miss last week's show with Wharton marketing professor Dr. Jonah Berger, on the science of what makes ideas and products go viral.
Berger's book: Contagious: Why Things Catch On.
Listen at this link or download the podcast:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon/2014/07/27/dr-jonah-berger-on-the-science-of-what-makes-ideas-and-products-go-viral
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A great show.
I'm going to have to look up the course she made.
She turned a very complicated neurological study into a very informative thing that a layman can easily understand.
Jim P. at August 3, 2014 7:45 PM
Amy Alkon
https://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2014/08/advice-goddess-179.html#comment-4908185">comment from Jim P.Thank you so much, Jim P. -- thrilled to hear that and I'm sure Barb will be, too!
Amy Alkon
at August 3, 2014 10:02 PM
It worked for one person(supposedly), that too the person who is writing the book and that is proof that it works? In what manner is this scientific where proof needs to be over a sufficiently large sample set? And if this is good enough as proof, then 1 person getting cured or relieved of some issue through homeopathy should be enough proof that homeopathy works
Redrajesh at August 5, 2014 10:06 AM
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