Brain Hack: 6 secrets to learning faster, backed by neuroscience | Lila Landowski | TEDxHobart

1. Exercise: It improves our brain and create new brain cells 2. Focus: Do some focus exercises like meditation 3. Practice alertness (to improve its 8-30 min cycle) 4.Sleep: it converts short term memory into long term 5.Repeat: Repetition is necessary in various stages of learning 6.Take breaks (20 min) in between long hours learnings 7.Make mistakes to train your brain to handle new things

1.Attention -Use phone less -Prioritize sleep -Excercise 2.Alert -Have a focus point -(Light) excercise -Sufficient eating 3.Sleep -Sleep to transform short-term memories in the hippocampus->long-term memories in the cortex 4.Repetition and Spacing -Learning is like excercising, to get 'muscles' you need repeting it 5.Breaks -Deep breaks (15 minutes) after learning to let brain recall the information 6.Mistakes -Go for challenges, matches, competitions, or simply practice the thing you want to learn the different way

attention alertness sleep repetition breaks and mistakes

1. Attention - remove distractions 2. Alert - Don’t get too comfortable while studying 3. Exercises - needless to say 4. Sleep - You can remember longer 5. Breaks and repeats - breaks down to short periods studying hours over multiple days 6. Make mistakes- go harder on every trying, don’t expect to be perfect

04:00 Attention 06:51 Alertness 09:39 Sleep 11:25 Repetition 13:52 Breaks 15:19 Mistakes

For those who are trying to remember the 6 keys to improve their learning curve: SAMBAR S => Sleep A => Attention M => Mistakes B => Breaks A => Alert R => Repetition FYI, For those who don't know what sambar is, its a south-indian dish. In this way you can remember the 6 keys for longer time and recollect easily Great video!!!! Will try to adapt these keys

“Don’t wait for everything to be perfect before you have a go”. This resonated so hard!!! Thank you!

1 . sleep 4 energy 😵 2 . exercise 4 big brain 💥 3 . relax 4 focus & attention 🧐 4 . learn bite size day wise 💔 5 . sandwich new knowledge b/w routine & mundane 😒 6 . add emotion 4 learning marathon😢 7 . failure is .. neuromodulator 👍 8 . learning is dope .. dopamine 🤨

1. Attention - Try to pay complete attention and be mindful while you are learning or reading. Avoid the use of too much media consumption as seeing so much unrelated information in short span of time creates attention deficits in the brain. 2.Alertness : Try to go into Alert or "Fight or Flight" mode before learning in order to increase your focus. A stream of cold shower at the end of your bath might be a good way. 3. Sleep : Sleep is very important in order to shift the short term memory stored in Hippocampus to long term memory in different parts of the brain as well as to flush out the waste substances created in the brain during the day. That is why one nighters before exams is very bad idea for long term memory, always try to prioritise your sleep before having a learning session. 4. Repetition : Practice makes perfect is rightly said as Repetition is extremely important to strengthen the neruon circuits in the brain and helping in the long term recall of a learned information. Spaced Repetition of the learned information after some hours, days and weeks is extremely helpful for long term recall. 5. Breaks : Breaks are another essential factor. 10-20 mins break after an hour or so of work are very helpful, if physical exercise is done in the breaks then it's best suited for the brain as it's seen that even 20 mins of exercise improves memory, intelligence and parts of the brain associated with learning so it is very much needed. 6. Mistakes : Making mistakes is not always bad, instead it's good as it increases our focus as we relearn something in which we failed earlier. We should be trying from our own side to intentionally make mistakes while learning something so that we are able to cover different angles of the information. If we succeed in our attempt while making the mistake then hormones like dopamine will get released and motivate us, if we fail then other neurotransmitters will get released and we will be able to learn a new angle of the information, strengthening our understanding so making learning like a game or a quiz is a Win-win situation.

Six (6) ingredients to learning faster: 1. Attention: Fully focus (use phone less) on the task to retain the info long-term & exercise to improve your attention 2. Alertness: Exercising, breathing techniques, cold showers and sleeping helps you be more alert 3. Sleep: converts short-term memory to long-term memory. 4. Repetition: Repeat the thing you are trying to learn as many times as you can in that period and space it out across days so your learning has time to build onto long-term memory 5. Breaks: Give your brain time to replay the information you learned after you take like 10-20mins break after learning something new. 6. Mistakes: Making mistakes helps you understand failure and better cope with failure. It’s helping you be better. “Don’t wait for everything to be perfect before you have a go.”

Broke my concentration when she said "I wish I knew this when I was young" and she is still young, very pretty and smart.

1. Exercise 2. Meditation 3. Attention 4. Alertness 5. Sleep 6. Repetition 7. Breaks 8. Mistakes

I have watched this video over 20 times, everything said here consists of things I have learned from people with really good memory. Those smart people never knew why these techniques worked and always told me to accept that this method or technique JUST works. This lecture summed it up by backing all of that evidence from field with scientific reasoning.

Mom was right about using that phone

Dr Lila ,if you're reading this,I want to say thank you for your performance and you did great ,thank you for helping us learn better ,keep up the good work !

Well done Lila! I am fortunate enough to have known Lila through school and in part in adulthood. She's very good at what she does and I am pleased that her work is getting the recognition it deserves. A very knowledgable woman.

This was so good! Thank you! I'm starting to learn a musical instrument for the very first time in my life (now that I'm an empty nester!) and I'm finding it very difficult. I'm going to use these learning hacks.

I absolutely loved this talk, and it comprises very important component that are necessary for learning a new skill or information. Although, I would say that there is one concept that I think is lacking in addition to attention, alertness, sleep, repetition, rest and mistakes. The missing concept is pace/speed. To learn anything significant the first iteration has to be taken slowly, and our brains will adapt to the new information better. It is a critical component and I believe it should be added to the 6 components mentioned in the talk.

Try to transmute your deepest mistakes into life-changing lessons that you never forget. When you make a mistake and recognize why it was a mistake, that's GOLD.

What an excellent talk! One of my favourite takeaways is most definitely "embrace your mistakes", simply because we all make mistakes. By learning from your mistakes you can turn them into way to improve yourself, so they aren't just a waste of time, money or whatever resource. Only when you walk away without reflecting and learning, mistakes are a waste of resources. Among colleagues I sometimes jokingly say "is this really a mistake or is it an unexpected learning opportunity?"