Amindfornunbers Ch14 Developing The Minds Eye

• imagination, visualization, and perspective can help simplify ideas
• transfer is when you can use skills from one discipline to more quickly learn a new discipline
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• multitasking hurts learning depth and causes less transfer

• einstein imagined he was a photon

• feynman liked "explain it to a 10 year old" and got many others to clarify ideas by trying this. Most complex things can be made simpler to explain
• the brain thinks in pictures or concepts as well as words, along probably with many other ways. So don't only think in words?
• learning and teaching have a conflict between abstract learning and applications learning. Abstract is favored by mathematicians to enhance transfer. Both are needed.
• as nurses progress through school they have to study less because their context grows, so remembering more is easier