Barbara Oakley, PhD, Teaches How to Excel at Highly Cognitive Subjects and Fields: The Human Brain Needs Regular Exercise, Too.

Welcome to the Playing Books podcast. We thank you for tuning into the cognitive episode of the podcast.We discuss Barbara Oakley, PhD’s A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra). Being a human being itself makes everyone highly intelligent and cognitive, far more than imagined. Many students, parents, teachers, bosses, and supposed geniuses have assumed that being smart isn’t for everyone. Only a handful of people are geniuses. But as cognitive researchers and experts like Dr. Oakley would find, intelligence is innate and requires learning how to release it.That is what this episode explores:Learn the importance of mindsetLearn the difference between long and short-term memoryRegular exercise is so useful to the brainUtilize mental techniques like chunking to learn abstract subjects like Physics, Maths, Chemistry, and others.Understand the power of persistent, focused practiceDr. Oakley is known to always say, ‘Practice makes permanent.” Which, in reality, is what makes anyone a genius. Just as biological growth takes time, cognitive growth is no different. The nervous system expects human beings to practice and be patient for that wow spark to strike naturally.It is available on Amazon, in other bookstores, or through your local library.You are not an unintelligent, dense person. As you allow this episode and Dr. Oakley’s A Mind for Numbers to change your mindset while you make a consistent, diligent, persistent effort to learn how to code, communicate better, and exercise as a lifestyle, you will find out your intelligence is rare, waiting this long to be tapped out and utilized to accomplish significant feats. Please leave your feedback, share this cognitive episode with inquisitive folks, follow the podcast, subscribe for more insights, and recommend the Playing Books podcast.Please, connect with other art and literature advocates on our social media: playingbooks.orgYouTubeInstagramTwitterTikTokWe challenge you to disabuse yourself of the belief that math and other abstract subjects and fields are way out of your league and not for your type.Please, when you start tackling some of the world’s most cognitive problems, remember Barbara Oakley, PhD’s A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra), and this episode.Thank you again for listening.