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  1. Jun 2023
    1. Focus is a muscle. Start with 4 sets of 20 minutes. Rest between sets. Progressive overload still applies to mental lifting. When you get stronger, add more weight. Increase to 4 sets of 45 minutes. Train your focus to hit your ideal financial physique in record time.

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    1. Five core layers: 1. Presentation Layer 2. Application Layer 3. Domain Layer 4. Persistence Layer 5. Database Layer

    2. In the layered architecture pattern, each layer fulfills a specific responsibility and role within the application. Some focus on user interface logic, while others handle the execution of business rules. These layers complement each other's unique purposes, but they aren't explicitly reliant on one another to perform their own tasks.
    3. In software architecture, layers act as individual processes within the infrastructure of an application. These layers typically form a pattern, also called the n-tier architecture pattern.
    1. People of the last days will be abound:

      1) Selfish - Symptom: Increase in Divorce Rates

      2) Enjoy pleasure > God - Sin has an addictive & deceptive nature, it gives pleasure. (think of porn)

      3) Lukewarmness (have a form of godliness but deny the power thereof)

      They will not be caught up with the Lord during the rapture.

      Be ready for the rapture at all times because it will come like a thief in the night.

    1. To improve society, ingrain a fear of the Lord. Don't deceive thyself.

    2. In the end times, there will be a lot of lukewarm Christians, who will not be taken in the rapture.

      Faith means crucifying the flesh and feeding the Spirit. Being lukewarm: Having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof; Outwardly faithful, but not transforming. Your life after conversion (baptism) is the same as before. OR selective faith. Choose what to obey; define your own religion.

      God (the Truth) sets free, therefore sin will be gone.

      Profession of faith means to CHANGE, GOD may cost you a lot. LOVE is SACRIFICE. Do not just hear, but also do.

      The most godly one is the one who sins the least, not the one who goes to church the most. Church means nothing. Doing the word of God, obeying Him, building a relation with Him means everything.

      Walking the broad (easy) path leads to sin and thus death and hell. Walking the narrow (difficult) path leads to righteousness and Heaven.

      1. Knowledge (Learn more and different than the rest)
      2. Action (Apply knowledge)
      3. Timing (Look for opportunities)
    1. Basically, you must be unique. You can't compete when you learn exactly the same as everyone else. The education system sets up to fail and makes you a modern slave.

    1. For example, I might join a coaching program with the idea of trying it out, but not really sure if I can do it. Then when things start to get hard or overwhelming … I might be looking for the exit door, or hiding so I don’t have to be embarrassed. This is being halfway in, with an eye on the exit. Another example: I commit to meditating every day. Then when I’m meditating, instead of being fully in the meditation, maybe I’m waiting for it to be over, or giving myself reasons I should end early. Then two days into it, maybe I really don’t feel like it, so I skip it. Then I find reasons to keep skipping it. This is even less than halfway in.

      If I am being fully honest, I recognize myself in this with some aspects of my life, such as social things. I often find excuses as to why it's a positive thing to not do something. At times I might be right, but the underlying mindset is an issue.

      Though to be honest, this has been going better since I've committed to learning.

    2. Here’s how you might practice: Notice the places where you’re looking to get out, to exit. Where are you only half committed? Notice how this impacts your life, the people you’re in relationship with, and what you care about. Notice the fears that stop you from being all in, that keep you looking for the exit. Can you be with these fears, as sensation in the body? Notice what you want to do from those fears — run, hide, eject someone from your life, make them feel bad, justify why you should quit, etc etc. Can you hold these with love, as something sacred you’ve created to protect yourself? When the fears show up, try to catch yourself. Notice what you want to do, and recognize that this is just a safety mechanism. Breathe. Be with the fear. Give yourself love. Continue to love yourself, the other person. The more breath, presence and love, the more spaciousness you’ll find. Then see what else might be created, if you don’t run for safety. From love.

      Basically: Kolb's on it.

    3. Deeper commitment creates deeper trust. The greatest results you are capable of. Transformation — you’ll be able to shift some of those things you think you can’t do or be or have. A deeper relationship, with more trust. A deeper relationship with yourself, with more trust. A realization that you didn’t need the exit door. A deeper devotion to whatever you care about.

      Advantages of Commitment

    1. According to Henderson, there are three steps to keeping a commonplace book:

      1) Read (Consume)

      "Commonplace books begin with observation."

      2) Capture (Write) Always also capture the source.

      3) Reflect Write own thoughts about the material. Synthesize, think.

      I'd personally use a digital commonplace book (hypothes.is), like Chris Aldrich explains, as my capture method and my Antinet Zettelkasten as my reflect methodology. This way the commonplace book fosters what Luhmann would call the thought rumination process.

    2. "Despair is the too-little of responsibility. Pride is the too-much." -- Wendell Berry

    1. A commonplace book, according to Jared Henderson, is a way to not collect own thoughts (though sometimes it is) but rather to collect thoughts by others that you deem interesting.

    1. (1:21:20-1:39:40) Chris Aldrich describes his hypothes.is to Zettelkasten workflow. Prevents Collector's Fallacy, still allows to collect a lot. Open Bucket vs. Closed Bucket. Aldrich mentions he uses a common place book using hypothes.is which is where all his interesting highlights and annotations go to, unfiltered, but adequately tagged. This allows him to easily find his material whenever necessary in the future. These are digital. Then the best of the best material that he's interested in and works with (in a project or writing sense?) will go into his Zettelkasten and become fully fledged. This allows to maintain a high gold to mud (signal to noise) ratio for the Zettelkasten. In addition, Aldrich mentions that his ZK is more of his own thoughts and reflections whilst the commonplace book is more of other people's thoughts.

  2. Apr 2023
    1. One way to weed those out is to begin with the most basic question we can formulate. Conceptual artist Jonathon Keats calls these “naive questions.” Geochemist Hope Jahren calls them “curiosity questions.” Whatever the label, they are, in essence, the kind of question a child could come up with.Progressing from such questions requires us to dig deeper and slow down our thinking — which, in turn, may reveal to us unknown unknowns or information we may have missed last time we explored the topic.

      For the intellectual worker, an Antinet can be used to keep track of such questions and the thought-lines corresponding to these questions.

    2. A right question is any question that enlivens you, comes from a place of honest curiosity, and, as Berger notes, helps you to organize your thinking around what you don’t know.

      The right type of question

    3. We can be bolder about asking questions in public and encouraging others to pursue their curiosity, too. In that encouragement, we help create an environment where those around us feel safe from the shame and humiliation they may feel in revealing a lack of knowledge about a subject, which can round back to us.

      As an educator, be courageous, lead by example. Start by asking questions out loud, not only those you wish students to answer, but also those you genuinely don't know, and wish to research together with your students.

    4. Many people, myself included, can find asking questions to be daunting. It fills us with worry and self-doubt, as though the act of being inquisitive is an all-too-public admission of our ignorance. Unfortunately, this can also lead us to find solace in answers — no matter how shaky our understanding of the facts may be — rather than risk looking stupid in front of others or even to ourselves.

      Asking questions is how we learn. Do not avoid it for the sake of not looking stupid. That is stupid. Inquiry-Based Learning.

      As Confucius said: "The one who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the one who doesn't ask is a fool for life."

    1. 8 Overtuigingen funest voor leren leren #1 Leren leren verloopt impliciet De eerste overtuiging die leraren kunnen hebben, is dat leren leren impliciet wordt aangeleerd en dus de informatieoverdracht niet expliciet hoeft te zijn. Leren leren wordt vanzelf aangeleerd als gevolg van ervaringen, dus expliciete instructie is niet nodig, is dan de gedachte. Deze gedachte gaat geheel voorbij aan wat we inmiddels uit onderwijsonderzoek weten over het cruciale belang van expliciete strategie-instructie. #2 Anders van aard De tweede overtuiging is dat kennis van leerstrategieën anders van aard is dan kennis van de leerstof. Voor leraren met deze overtuiging is kennis van leren leren eenduidig en niet problematisch, waardoor ze het onnodig vinden om er relatief veel aandacht aan te besteden. Terwijl we weten dat leren leren best een complexe aangelegenheid is. Zo identificeerden Pressley en Afflerbach maar liefst meer dan 150 verschillende leerstrategieën die mensen gebruiken tijdens het lezen. Als we verwachten dat leerlingen gedegen kennis hebben van vakken als geschiedenis of natuurkunde, waarom dan niet kennis van hoe ze moeten leren? #3 Komt niet vaak van pas Kennis over leren leren wordt toch niet zo vaak gebruikt dus hoef je er ook niet veel aandacht aan te besteden tijdens de les, is de derde overtuiging volgens Lawson cum suis. De gedachte is dat je als leraar je daarom maar beter kan richten op het onderwijzen van de leerstof. Maar als je leerlingen eens vraagt om hardop na te denken terwijl ze bijvoorbeeld de hoek van een driehoek proberen te berekenen, dan zal je horen dat ze voortdurend verschillende soorten strategieën inzetten; met de antwoorden krijg je bovendien meer inzicht in welke strategieën je leerlingen gebruiken. Zo leer je hoe je leerlingen leren. #4 Gewoon ervaren in de praktijk De vierde overtuiging is dat de kennis die leerlingen nodig hebben om leren leren aan te leren, vooral praktisch moet zijn en niet theoretisch. De gedachte is dat leerlingen leren leren aanleren door gewoon aan de slag te gaan, door te ervaren in de praktijk. Deze gedachte komt voort uit wat leraren in het verleden hebben ervaren, toen ze zelf op school zaten. #5 Onzeker over de materie De vijfde overtuiging is een belangrijke, namelijk dat leraren niet zeker weten of ze kunnen lesgeven over leren leren. Twee zaken zijn hier van belang: het oordeel van leraren over hun eigen kennis van leren leren en het vertrouwen dat ze nodig hebben om de instructie te kunnen geven. Dat laatste gaat over de self-efficacy van leraren. Self-efficacy van leraren gaat over de mate waarin zij zichzelf in staat achten om complexe taken uit te voeren, zoals het geven van strategie-instructie. Self-efficacy is een sterke motivator voor het instructiegedrag van leraren. #6 Is aan de leerlingen zelf Leren leren moet aan leerlingen worden overgelaten, is de zesde overtuiging. Leraren gaan ervan uit dat de verantwoordelijkheid en het initiatief voor leren leren bij de leerling liggen, terwijl kennis van de verschillende strategieën de leerling juist in staat stelt om verantwoordelijkheid en initiatief te nemen. Het middel wordt hier verward met het doel van leren leren. #7 Lage verwachtingen De zevende overtuiging is dat leren leren slechts is weggelegd voor enkele leerlingen, meestal de goed presterende leerlingen. De leraar kan de leerlingen die moeilijk meekomen in de klas, maar beter niet lastigvallen met instructie in leren leren, is de overtuiging. Er zijn bizar veel studies beschikbaar die laten zien dat expliciete instructie juist ook voor deze groep leerlingen de voorkeur geniet. Daarnaast laat onderzoek van Jeltsen Peeters cum suis onder 127 basisschoolleerkrachten in Vlaanderen zien dat de leraar met deze overtuiging laag presterende leerlingen zelfs opzadelt met een dubbel nadeel. Niet alleen hebben deze leerlingen al te maken met de nodige uitdagingen door de beperkte mate waarin ze in staat zijn om te leren, bovendien krijgen ze vanuit deze overtuiging minder mogelijkheden om leerstrategieën aan te leren. Extra inzet is dus geboden op het terrein van strategie-instructie. #8 Leren leren is niet aan te leren De achtste overtuiging is dat leren leren waarschijnlijk niet is aan te leren. Sommige leraren en onderzoekers denken dat leren leren niet te onderwijzen valt en dus geen onderdeel kan en hoeft te zijn van een expliciete instructie. John Sweller en Fred Paas verwoorden dit heel helder: “Self-regulated learning is likely to be a biologically primary skill and so unteachable.” Deze onderzoekers baseren zich op het werk van de Amerikaanse hoogleraar David Geary. In het artikel ‘An evolutionarily informed education science’ bekijkt Geary het leren van kinderen door een evolutionaire bril. Sommige dingen leren zij vanzelf. Ze leren bijvoorbeeld lopen met vallen en opstaan, ze leren luisteren en spreken in een moedertaal en ze leren hoe ze met anderen omgaan. Volgens Geary zijn dit vormen van leren die evolutionair zijn ingebakken, omdat deze noodzakelijk zijn gebleken om te overleven. Deze automatische processen noemt Geary ‘primair leren’. Daarnaast bestaat er ‘secundair leren’. Daarbij gaat het om het verwerven van kennis (en vaardigheden) die evolutionair gezien veel jonger is en die van generatie op generatie wordt overgedragen. Denk aan leren lezen en schrijven. Secundaire kennis is van belang om goed te functioneren in de huidige maatschappij. Jammer genoeg gaat secundair leren niet vanzelf, maar kost dat moeite, en volgens Geary is daar expliciete instructie door de leraar bij nodig. Of zoals Kirschner, Claessens en Raaijmakers (2018, p. 21) het stellen: “Het verwerven van kennis op school gaat dus niet vanzelf.” En dat geldt ook voor het aanleren van leren leren; dat hebben de vele meta-analyses en interventiestudies ons inmiddels wel geleerd.

      Myths about self-regulated learning to be aware of.

  3. Mar 2023
    1. It appears his quote is widely misunderstood.  In his email to me, Dr. Comer states that he’s surprised by how “widely” his statement has been used and that it has grown out of neuroscience findings showing that meaningful relationships with material and experiences are remembered and applied more than others.

      Don't share under different contexts, otherwise show what the author meant. Also, don't share without understanding... Suggestion by Mortimer Adler as well.

    2. “No significant learning can occur without a significant relationship.” – Dr. James Comer

      Interesting quote; beware, it's not about person to person relations.

    1. Simon Winchester describes the pigeonhole and slip system that professor James Murray used to create the Oxford English Dictionary. The editors essentially put out a call to readers to note down interesting every day words they found in their reading along with examples sentences and references. They then collected these words alphabetically into pigeonholes and from here were able to collectively compile their magisterial dictionary.

      Interesting method of finding example sentences in words.

    1. The state of current technology greatly impacts our ability to manipulate information, which in turn exerts influence on our ability to develop new ideas and technologies. Tools designed to enable networked thinking are a step in the direction of Douglas Engelbart’s vision of augmenting the human intellect, resulting in “more-rapid comprehension, better comprehension, the possibility of gaining a useful degree of comprehension in a situation that previously was too complex, speedier solutions, better solutions, and the possibility of finding solutions to problems that before seemed insolvable.”

      There's a danger to using digital tools to help with Higher Order Thinking; namely, it offloads precious cognitive load, optimized intrinsic load, which is used to build schemas and structural knowledge which is essential for mastery. Another danger is that digital tools often make falling for the collector's fallacy easier, meaning that you horde and horde information, which makes you think you have knowledge, while in fact, you simply have (maybe related) information, not mastery. The analog way prevents this, as it forces you to carefully evaluate the value of an idea and decide whether or not it's worth it to spend time on writing it and integrating it into a line of thought. Evaluation/Analysis is forced in an analog networked thinking tool, which is a form of Higher Order Learning/Thinking, as they are in the higher orders of Bloom's Taxonomy/Hierarchy.

      This is also true for AI. Always carefully evaluate whether or not a tool is worth using, like a farmer. (Deep Work, Cal Newport).

      Instead, use a tool like mindmapping, the GRINDE way, which is digital, for learning... Or the Antinet Zettelkasten by Scott Scheper, which is analog, for research.

    2. Divergence and emergence allow networked thinkers to uncover non-obvious interconnections and explore second-order consequences of seemingly isolated phenomena. Because it relies on undirected exploration, networked thinking allows us to go beyond common sense solutions.

      The power of an Antinet Zettelkasten. Use this principle both in research and learning.

    3. For instance, we used to think that the main cause of obesity was a poor diet at an individual level, leading to treatments focused on the individual. However, taking a networked thinking approach in a 32-year-long study with over 12,000 people led researchers to discover that the participants’ personal network had a great impact on their likelihood to be obese. “Discernible clusters of obese persons were present in the network at all time points,” write the researchers.

      Another social factor influencing human behaviour. Beware of such factors when it comes to self-improvement and learning.

    4. Beyond cognitive biases and preconceived opinions, common sense is based on linear thinking. “I experience A, therefore I can directly explain it by B.”
    5. Common sense is actually a pretty bad indicator of truth. Because of cognitive biases and preconceived opinions, ideas that sound right are often wrong. “Common sense is actually nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind prior to the age of eighteen,” Einstein presumably said.
    6. Networked thinking is an explorative approach to problem-solving, whose aim is to consider the complex interactions between nodes and connections in a given problem space. Instead of considering a particular problem in isolation to discover a pre-existing solution, networked thinking encourages non-linear, second-order reflection in order to let a new idea emerge.

      Seems similar to Communicating with an Antinet Zettelkasten.

    1. Zo wordt erop gewezen dat wij een zeer beperkt werkgeheugen hebben, het belang van aandacht, en dat “multitasking” (eigenlijk schakelen tussen taken) door leerlingen interfereert met aandachtig luisteren en het functioneren van het werkgeheugen. Andere uitkomsten zijn dat ook kinderen die zelf niet bezig zijn met mobieltje of laptop last hebben van klasgenoten die dat wel doen (trekt de aandacht). Een verschijnsel dat vergelijkbaar is met gedwongen meeroken.