[Neurons] The Newest Neuro-Semantic Book --- EXECUTIVE LEARNING

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Preface

EXECUTIVE LEARNING 

Learning How To Learn

While learning is about information processing, it is about so much more!
Actually, learning lies at the very heart of being human.   Learning enables
you to be fully alive/fully human.  Learning opens up everything beautiful
and transcending about being human.  Learning drives self-understanding -
how to tap into your strengths and pull up your weaknesses, how to cope, how
to get along with others in respectful and loving relationships, how to
develop your talents, and how to unleash your potentials to be the very best
version of you.  Learning enables you to know how to succeed in business,
finances, and career.  Learning drives your ability to solve problems,
invent solutions, innovate life transforming products, and on and on.
Everything you are and everything you achieve comes through learning.

Yet learning has gotten a really bad rap.  It also has a dark side.  For
many, it is the last thing that they would want to do voluntarily on Planet
Earth.  Others struggle with left-over problems created by
"education"-"learning disabilities."  Most people do not know how to access
a great learning state or discern the best learning strategy for developing
expertise.

The solution: Executive Learning.  Then you can learn how-to-learn and stay
ahead of the game.  As you discover the secrets of the executive functions
in meta-learning, you can fully activate the seven dimensions of learning.
Out of that will emerge learning as an exciting adventure of discovery.
Learning will transform into a joyful exploration and you as an adventurer
actualizing your best learning potentials. 

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               EXECUTIVE LEARNING

Foreword
Dr. Carl Lloyd

Preface
9

I: Introduction 

1. The Learning, Adventure
14

2. Thinking about Learning
22

II: The Learning Dimensions
35

3. Learning Dimensions as a

    Model
36

4. Dimension 1:

    The Learning State
48

     Interlude: Thinking to Learn
62

5. Dimension 2:
66

    Representational Learning

6. Dimension 3:
78

    Background Learning

7. Structural Thinking
88

8. Dimension 4:
96

    Conceptual Learning

9. Dimension 5:
106

    Meta-Learning

10. Dimension 6:
118

      Integrative Learning 

11. Dimension 7:
129

      Pragmatic Learning

III: Putting the Model Together

12. Holistic Learning
140

13. High Quality Learning
149

14. Learning Stages
160

       Encoding, Consolidating,

       Retrieving

15. Learning Genius State
173

IV: Updating Learning Problems

16. Unlearning
183

17. What Could Go Wrong?
193

       "Learning Disabilities"

V: Applications

18. The Learning Coach
205

19: My Learning Strategy
213

20:  Learning and Change
223

21. Enhancing Your Learning
231

A Final Word
240

Appendices

A.  Sensory Representations
241

B.  Pattern for Unlearning.
243

C.  Learning Beliefs
244

D.  Learning Principles
245

E.  Well-Formed Outcome
246

F.  Multiple Intelligences
247

G. What about Teaching?
248

Bibliography
250

Author
254

PREFACE

"Tomorrow's illiterate will not be the man who can't read;

he will be the man who has not learned how to learn."

Alvin Tofler, Future Shock

O

nce upon a time I was sitting at Starbucks as I do every morning when I'm
home and reading a book when someone approached me and started up a
conversation.  "What are you reading?"  When I told him it was about the
neurology of brain anatomy, he seemed surprised, even shocked.  He asked,
"Why?"  My answer was simple and direct, "To learn."  Again he asked me why.
I said because there are a thousand things to learn and I'm committed to
learning several new things every day.  As that brought about a pause, I
asked him a question, "What have you learned today?"

Now if earlier he was shocked by my answers, he was even more shocked by my
question.  "Learning? ... [long pause] ... learning?  Well, I don't know."
So, trying to lighten things up, I asked, "Well, what have you learned in
the last week?"   That's when I discovered, by means of that brief
conversation, a way to induce a profound state of stunned silence(!).  It
was not my intention, but that was the effect.

What did you learn today? Because this constitutes such a powerful question
that directs you to what you've learned, I have used it to conclude each
chapter.  Each chapter ends with the question, "What did you learn?" The
design?  To direct your attention beyond the reading to your learning.  Why?
Because learning requires reflection.  To read without reflecting is to
waste a great bit of your time and to be the less for it.  As amazing as it
may seem, if you take just a moment to reflect, you can often discover
things from your reading that you did not realize that you learned.

Reflecting on what you see, hear, and experience is one of the many powerful
tools for effective learning.  While it takes a bit of time and slows 

down your reading, yet you thereby create a richness and depth to your
learning.

On another occasion I was, again, in Starbucks and this time I fell into a
conversation with a man who was unemployed.  It began when he asked me if I
was unemployed and if that's why I was reading.  "No, no ... I'm reading for
pleasure and for learning.  I then returned the question, asking what he was
reading and studying.  His immediately response was, "What?" as if the
question didn't compute; as if I had asked him when he was planning a
vacation trip to Mars.

"Well, you said you were unemployed didn't you?  ["Yeah."]  So you now have
a great opportunity to be reading and studying to add new knowledge and new
skills that will give you greater employability, right?"

.        "Well .... I never thought of that. [Pause]   Anyway I don't know
what I would study.   And ... anyway, I don't like to study."

"You don't like to study?!" I said in a tone of absolute astonishment as I
raised the tempo of my voice.  "Well I'm really sorry to hear that.  Would
you want some help in designing a learning program for yourself so that you
can fall in love with learning and so you can regularly be developing new
skills so you can make a lot more money than you have ever before?"

I added the last line to provide an intentional motivation to the
conversation and to see how he would respond.  He didn't take the bait.  I
felt sad for him as he left the conversation and, twenty minutes later,
walked out of the coffee shop.

Actually, a sense of pity rose up in me that here was a person with all of
the time and opportunity to increase his internal wealth of knowledge,
understanding, and skill, to add more value in the marketplace and to
improve the quality of his life, and he didn't see that.  Even though I had
tried to shake up his comfortable world and challenge him to wake up to the
possibilities- he continued his sleep as he socialized with some friends and
then left to go watch daytime TV.   I know that because earlier he had told
me that was what he was doing with all the time on his hands.

He did not know that learning and learning-to-learn is the premier career
development competency.  Whether you are unemployed today, or in a career
whose growth potential is lessening, or ready for a new challenge in life-
the secret to wealth creation, to vitality in life, to living with a sense
of adventure and inspiration-is to keep learning, unlearning, and
re-learning.  To learn how to learn is the ultimate secret of all great
successes.

The real pity is that there are so many who have let School destroy the
pleasure of learning.  The tragedy is that so many went to school and yet
never learned how to learn.  And, when that's the case, they actually have
received a pseudo-education!  As a result, today they suffer a great
disadvantage in today's world of change.  How ironic that school is the
culprit which has prevented so many from getting an education.

A big delusion today is thinking that if you go to school, you are educated.
It is also delusional to think that what happens in most schools is
"education."  All too often, people are not being educated, they are merely
being warehoused until they are old enough to leave.

So what is real education?  What is it to be an educated person?  Is it only
to be a person with vast amounts of knowledge?  Is it to be a person who is
capable of integrating and organizing difficult concepts?  Is it to be a
person who is well rounded with a broad perspective?  Or to be someone who
is effective and efficient in figuring things out and solving problems?  Or
is it to be a person who lives everyday in a joyous adventure of discovery
and becoming more human and more alive?

The Learning Dimensions Model described and detailed here offers a holistic
approach to learning.  When you learn the model, you'll learn how to learn
and how to let learning become a joyous adventure of discovery.  And when
that happens, it will deeply change you.  It will change you so that you
will be more fully alive/ fully human.  It will change you so that- as a
continual learner- learning will become your primary tool for creating
wealth, solving problems, and collaboratively connecting with others.

These learning dimensions arise organically from the executive functions in
your prefrontal cortex.  That's where we humans do our highest and best
thinking and learning.  When you learn to activate, enhance, and use your
executive functions, learning is under your control.  You become the CEO of
your learning and development.  What are these executive functions?  Lists
of these executive functions range from three to forty, here the essential
dozen that are absolutely essential for executive learning. 

              1) Response inhibition: ignoring distractions (self-control).

.        2) Reflecting: thinking before acting, pausing, moment of silence,
meta-cognition.

.        3) Working memory: keeping information in mind, retrieving.

.        4) Emotional control: self-regulating emotions and choices.

.        5) Task initiation: starting a task and staying focused on it.

.        6) Sustained attention: focusing one's concentration.

.        7) Planning: prioritizing: structuring, formatting, deciding,
setting intentions, valuing, motivating.

.        8) Organization: sequencing, tracking what you're doing.

.        9) Time management

.        10) Flexibility: flexibly shifting thinking and strategy.

.        11) Goal- directed persistence; defining and solving problems.

.        12) Stress tolerance

Above and beyond the content of any given subject, these executive functions
are the most important processes to learn.  Learn these and you will make
learning an executive skill by which you can create your life as you desire.
Learning these describes meta-learning- learning how to learn.

As humans, we were born to learn.  Learning is the very heartbeat of our
humanity.  Learning governs personal and psychological growth, it enables
you to actualize your best version of you, and it governs what and who you
become.  No wonder then, when you learn how to learn, you take a giant step
forward and upward in developing your humanity.  Now that development is in
your hands.   So, if your game for a Learning Make-Over, welcome to the
adventure.

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D., Executive Director 

Neuro-Semantics 

P.O. Box 8

Clifton, CO. 81520 USA                             

               1 970-523-7877 

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