Zero to Hero & Network for Learning & Asking Beautiful Questions ft. Don Robert Pornaras 1/13/21

The Learning Code

Themes revealed w Don Robert: Seek Projects to Fuel your Learning (each class meeting is a project) - How to Ask Questions - True Value of Networking

00:00 Helping seeking Practice: ability to take useful notes & offering to take notes for your friend

02:14 Don's Journey / Mech Eng. Major but no background / 'anybody can do it - didn't even know what CAD was' / project based learning / leverage

07:45 Networking for Success

09:00 How to Ask Questions / Prepare to Ask beautiful questions /

14:15 License & Certifications & Curriculum research building mental models that help you ignite then sustain motivation in your ed journey

19:00 Engineering Projects

22:45 Don transitions from Mech E to CS invested time to looking at curriculum, read syllabuses

25:43 Hackerrank self regulated learning

28:00 Time management from Positioning yourself to Take Ownership "idea of ownership" Position yourself to take ownership of a project, then take action, put yourself in that environment to apply that knowledge

34:25 Find out how your assignment fits into the bigger picture of what you're trying to achieve - 'see the universe of your field' connect the dots between diff concepts

42:00 definition of learning - reflection of your character who you want to be, how badly you wanna be the person you wanna be

43:37 Assumptions and what they can do: falsely accused of academic integrity / deficiencies of grading

49:00 Learning Keys from Jeff's open access notes of Limitless Mind by Jo Boaler

54:00 Imposter Syndrome / Belief / Mentality / Assert Ourselves or Get Crushed 'find opportunities to assert yourself and defend your ideas, believe in yourself as open ended ideas'

58:28 Productive Struggle Zone / Keeping up w /

1:00:00 Building mental model building a network ask for help, just do it.

1:03:30 Ask yourself 'what am I trying to learn and what do I want to learn in this class'?

1:05:30 Understanding concepts requires building your second brain and generating concept images 'immerse yourself in your field' / find motivation that fuels your learning

1:08:43 Learn from people who make you stretch and learn from people who are your

hear what Jeff has to say about collaboration https://youtu.be/S8R8RabqDnc

A msg Don wrote me an hour after our talk:

I was already well prepared for those semesters when I had school, work, and club projects simultaneously. I already had many of the dots connected, and I could relatively easily pinpoint the holes in my knowledge and how to fill them. This helped estimate how long it would take to learn each individual lesson or do some task or homework. Also, my knowledge from Formula SAE already covered a lot of the content both in classes and in my job. A bunch of my time ended up being just busywork of going through the motions to reinforce things I already knew, and only a smaller and more manageable amount of my time involved learning new things. The same goes for that day when you saw me taking notes quickly and only half paying attention while writing down a lot of information. I already understood most of the concepts covered in that talk, and I would only tune in 100% when I heard something that I wasn't really familiar with. I already had a mental model ready to go and all my relevant life experiences up until that point had prepared me to go in ready to just learn a little bit more, rather than needing to learn from square 1 every little detail. If there's anything that you could highlight in post editing or in the comments or video/audio descriptions, I'd say its the amount of work that I put in beforehand on my own time that made the actual class, project, or job significantly easier.

Our Talk on YouTube https://youtu.be/E47fcdzdDb8

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