Oakley: Learning unrelated topics drives work innovation through cognitive transfer
Barbara Oakley · #31 Barbara Oakley: Learning How to Learn · Apr 10, 2018 · at 1:11:36
Barbara Oakley, engineering professor and author of 'Learning How to Learn', explains how cross-domain learning sparks creative problem-solving.
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“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 something completely different, completely unrelated to what your job is, and what that can do is there's a concept called transfer, and transfer means you get a neural chunk, a neural pattern, and Whatever that is, you will be able to bring it through metaphor to give you fresh ideas in whatever area you're working in.”
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