Barbara Oakley
13 statements across 2 episodes · 4 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 10, 2018 by Barbara Oakley · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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Apr 10, 2018 negative
Oakley: Passive rereading creates a false illusion of competence
“Well, first off, you don't want to sit and reread because rereading, what that does is, when you read something again, you think, because your eye is, like, comfortable looking at it, and it seems familiar, you think you know it, but you actually don't.”
Apr 10, 2018 negative
Oakley: Management cannot be optimized because it is an open-ended system
“I don't think there's a way to necessarily optimize being a manager because it is, it's a, it's an open-ended system and an ill-posed problem in a sense You just, you can't get there from here, but you can, in most cases, incrementally improve”
Apr 10, 2018 positive
Oakley: Learning unrelated topics drives work innovation through cognitive transfer
“In fact, I think that's one of the best ways to be fresh, to maintain freshness in whatever you're working on at a day job, so to speak. Is to try to spend a little bit of your time, you know, either offline or online or at work or not at work, learning someth…”
Apr 10, 2018
Oakley: Parallel skill acquisition beats sequential learning for long-term retention
“Well, if I studied three languages for five years and kind of on a parallel track, I think I would be better at each of them
Than if I studied you know, three for, you know, one and a half years, or, you know, one of them for one and a half, and then sequentia…”
Apr 10, 2018 positive
Oakley: Learning requires alternating between focused and diffuse modes of thinking
“And that learning involves going back and forth between these two different modes. And if you don't get something the first time, guess what? That's okay. If you don't get it when you're sitting there focusing the first time, Back off, you know, after you focu…”
Apr 10, 2018 positive
Oakley: Corporate learning cultures require CEOs to publicly model learning struggles
“For corporations, Talking about the importance of learning have the head person, whoever is the CEO, could be modeling the importance of learning, perhaps through learning something and kind of sharing it with the corporation and those in the corporation and s…”
Apr 10, 2018 neutral
Oakley: Good managers must think Machiavellian to anticipate manipulative tricks
“I think that administer, being a good administrator is one of the world's most difficult jobs because part of it's a, it's, it involves vision and It involves being able to inspire people. It involves being able to be a little Machiavellian yourself, because y…”
Apr 10, 2018 negative
Apr 10, 2018 neutral
Apr 10, 2018
Oakley: Skill acquisition requires linking small cognitive chunks into larger patterns
“First, to be aware that there's a way of crystallizing what you're doing that creates a pattern that is a chunk. And you can make a bigger pattern, right? Just like a chain, and you can add more links to the chain.”
Apr 10, 2018 positive
Oakley: Defense Language Institute learning techniques apply to STEM and music
“And I went to the Defense Language Institute, which is one of the greatest institutions in the world for learning another language, and the techniques they used are really the same great techniques that you would use to learn dance, to learn a musical instrume…”
Apr 10, 2018 negative
Oakley: Predatory bad actors will adapt with less detectable workplace misconduct
“But they're really, really intelligent people, and so it will find other ways to manifest itself, and what I'm interested to see is how, how will that manifest? Because it won't manifest in a way that's as easily detectable as what's going on now”