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“It is our emotional experience that makes the
difference in how we’re learning.“ -Hunter Maats
Can intelligence and mastery be learned or are we all innately good at some things and terrible at others? Is there really a “math” gene or can anyone, with enough practice, become great at
Algebra?
Hunter Maats, our guest for episode 287, says if you’ve learned one thing in your life, you can learn anything. And he is here to share the science that supports this belief.
More About This
Show:
Hunter Maats, founder of
Straight A
Conspiracy and
Harvard graduate, joins the
Art of
Charm to talk about numerous aspects of how and why we learn. To name just a few topics, we discuss the impact emotions have on our learning experience, the fallacy of genes giving us certain traits and not others, what the worst idea ever is and why you should forget it immediately, the danger of the 10,000-hour rule, and automaticity.
On the
point of emotions impacting our learning experiences, Hunter says science is now showing us that attitude and perspective make a significant difference in our ability to learn and retain something.
For example, if you’ve ever said “I feel stupid” you’re exemplifying his point.
Stupid is associated with an actual feeling – shame. If we get something wrong and take it personally, we feel ashamed of our mistake and call ourselves stupid. There’s nothing genetic about it, it’s just our emotions and our personal association with the mistake.
If we could change our perspective to simply acknowledge our mistake, examine it to learn where we went wrong and what we could do differently next time, we remove the shame and the feeling of being “stupid”.
You can change any experience, any mistake you’ve made by shifting your perspective and your attitude.
Again, it has nothing to do with “certain genes” giving you certain talents. If you’re willing to learn from a past failure, you can improve in that situation going forward. And if you approach every failure this way, you’ll do nothing but get better and better.
Need a quantifiable example?
Airplanes. Though they weren’t the safest machines when they were invented, today they are a regular part of most people’s travel plans. And do you know why? Because after every airplane failure, the situation was examined until it was uncovered where things went wrong and what could be done to prevent the same mistakes in the future. Those preventions were put in the place each
time a mistake was found and today, airplanes are safer than walking.
The finer details of this show include:
-Team
Descartes and
Team Newton: dispelling the myth of gravity’s discovery
-What’s the best way to get people interested in you?
-Bill
Bradley’s practice strategies that led to becoming one of the greatest basketball players ever.
-The lesson from a
Stone Age village in
Papua New Guinea
-Why
ADD medications effect everyone EQUALLY: the science behind it.
-And so much more!
After Hunter and I cover that topic thoroughly, we discuss what he calls “the worst idea ever”. The idea that some people are either born smart or stupid. He says toss that idea out – stop thinking that you’re either smart or not, you either have “it” or you don’t.
Resources From This
Episode
-Hunter’s web site: http://www.thestraightaconspiracy.com/
-Hunter on Twitter: https://twitter.com/huntermaats
-The Straight A Conspiracy on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/str8AConspiracy
-Quiet:
The Power of
Introverts,
Susan Cain: http://www.thepowerofintroverts.com/
-The
Sports Gene,
David Epstein: http://www.amazon.com/The-Sports-Gene-Extraordinary-Performance/dp/1591845114
-Guns,
Germs and
Steel: The
Fates of
Human Societies,
Jared Diamond: http://www.amazon.com/Guns-Germs-Steel-Fates-Societies/dp/0393317552
-Boys
Adrift,
Leonard Sax,
M.D.,
Ph.D.: http://www.boysadrift.com/
-Spark:
The Revolutionary New Science of
Exercise and
The Brain,
Eric Hagerman: http://www.amazon.com/Spark-Revolutionary-Science-Exercise-Brain/dp/0316113514
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- published: 11 Sep 2014
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