FUSION 11 Key Note Jonah Lehrer with Thinking About Thinking: The New Science of Learning

Running uphill from fire (moving faster than you).

Sometimes we're just thinking about problems in the wrong way.

Moments of Insight
1. Comes out of Nowhere
2. We know it is just right.

C.R.A.P.

Pine, crab, sauce (apple)

A. 30 mileseconds (surge of activity in the brain, in right hemisphere)
B. They can look at scans and predict that an epiphany would come. Alpha waves when you're relaxed.

Turn the spotlight of attention inwards
So focused on trying to focus. So when the noise of the world drowns out, when you stop making progress, then stop searching for it.

2. Tip IMPORTANCE OF GRIT
Kids lowest grit, most likely to drop out.
Quarterbacks have high grit. The dumber you are, the better you are going to perform as a quarterback (on wunderlicks test)

RELY ON THESE INTUTIONS THAT YOU'VE DEVELOPED

Grit seems to mediate and allows you to manuever the challenges (stick with it even when sore and bruised).

Trained instincts and intuitions.

#3 The importance of making mistakes.

How does intuition get so smart?
Dopamine (pleasure drug, recognizes patterns too)

Dopamine gets bored quickly.


Test: two groups ("Good job, you are so smart" vs "Good job you must have tried so hard") The kids who were praised for trying harder scored 30% higher.)

Be constantly confronted/challenged.

#4 Importance of not eating the marshmallow.
Have one marshmallow right now you can eat, or wait 15 minute and you can have two.
Average waiting time 2 minutes.
"High Delayer" Properly allocate their attention. Short term suferring for a long term reward.

Attack grit by 1)giving kids the right, reasonable and effective goals and 2) let the kids have the experiences.