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In this episode, Susan Lambert rejoins podcast alum Natalie Wexler to discuss Natalie's new book Beyond the Science of Reading: Connecting Literacy Instruction to the Science of Learning. Listeners will gain insights into why this topic is important, what this book offers educators, why Natalie was so drawn to writing this book, and what cognitive science-informed teaching looks like in general. Natalie addresses how cognitive load theory works in practice with literacy, misconceptions about focusing only on phonics, and scaling science-informed instruction. Natalie also answers a question from the listener mailbag about encouraging colleagues to adopt an evidence-based approach.Show notes: Connect with Natalie Wexler:Website: nataliewexler.comPre-order Beyond the Science of Reading: Connecting Literacy Instruction to the Science of Learning: https://ascd.org/books/beyond-the-science-of-reading?variant=125006Substack: Minding the Gap, by Natalie WexlerResources:Listen: Special: Why the Science of Reading isn't just about reading, with Natalie WexlerListen: Conversation with Make It Stick author Peter C. Brown Listen: Cognitive load theory: Four items at a time, with Greg AshmanSubstack: The Bell Ringer by Holly KorbeyJoin our community Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/groups/scienceofreadingConnect with Susan Lambert: www.linkedin.com/in/susan-lambert-b1512761/Listen to Illinois administrator Serena Klosa on Beyond My Years!Quotes: “We're overlooking the ways in which the typical approach to teaching reading comprehension and writing actually conflict with what cognitive science tells us about how people learn to do those things.” —Natalie Wexler“We spend much more time trying to teach…them to read, but we kind of expect them to just pick up writing. You know, for most kids, it does not happen.” —Natalie Wexler“No matter how good you are at making inferences, if you don't have the requisite background knowledge, you're not gonna be able to do it.” —Natalie Wexler“It doesn't work to just ask inexperienced writers to just write down stuff. That is not going to provide the cognitive benefits.” —Natalie WexlerEpisode timestamps*02:00 Introduction: Who is Natalie Wexler?04:00 Natalie's new book07:00 What is the science of learning?11:00 Connecting the science of learning to reading, writing, literacy14:00 Automaticity and cognitive load theory17:00 Transferable vs non-transferable skills22:00 Strategies to release cognitive load when learning new skills24:00 Learning to write, writing to learn.29:00 Bringing science informed teaching to scale32:00 What readers will take away from the book33:00 Mailbag question: How can one person get more colleagues to use an evidence-based approach?36:00 Final thoughts*Timestamps are approximate
Alan explores the concept of "automaticity" - the things we do without thinking. He discusses the pros and cons of this autopilot mode, drawing on examples from dentistry, daily commutes, and social media habits. He encourages listeners to be mindful of their automatic behaviors and make conscious choices to break unhealthy patterns. Key Takeaways: Efficiency vs. Mindlessness: Automaticity can be efficient, like in established dental routines, but also lead to mindless, unhealthy habits like emotional eating or excessive social media use. Intentionality is Key: Be aware of your automatic actions and assess if they're serving you well. Breaking Bad Habits: Consciously interrupt automatic behaviors and replace them with healthier choices. Tools like website blockers or the "Brick" device can help. Social Media Habits: Alan challenges listeners to examine their social media use and consider strategies to break free from automatic scrolling. Some links from the show: Zirc Dental Products Color Method
It's our fifth year of getting the patrons together and giving thanks for the new music that gave us happiness and good vibes in 2024. There's a wide array of bands and artists, new and old, that helped make 2024 a great year for music. New albums from 1980s, 90s and 00s artists like The Cure, Pearl Jam, Judas Priest, Underworld, The Black Crowes, John Davis (Superdrag), The Sheila Divine, Jack White, Pig, the Pixies, Watershed, Sebastian Bach, Silver Sun, D-A-D, J. Mascis, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Primal Scream, The Smile, and many more all released great late career records, while newer bands like Return to Dust, Ahem, Friko, The Blackburns, Crows, and several others landed on our radar. Songs In This Episode Intro - Alone by The Cure (from Songs from a Lost World) 3:38 - Trust In Me by Silver Sun (from Mild Peril) 11:49 - (Hold On) To The Dream by Sebastian Bach (from Child Within The Man) 18:11 - Lapdog by Ahem (from Avoider) 21:34 - Fallout by Pig (from Feast of Agony EP) 31:17 - Free To Fall by John Davis (from JINX) 34:32 - Trial By Fire by Judas Priest (from Invincible Shield) 42:00 - Automaticity by J. Robbins (from Basilisk) 52:01 - Wanting and Waiting by The Black Crowes (from Happiness Bastards) 1:08:41 - The Darkness by The Sheila Divine (from I Am The Darkness. We Are The Light) Outro - Dark Matter by Pearl Jam (from Dark Matter) Support the podcast, join the DMO UNION at Patreon. Listen to the episode archive at DigMeOutPodcast.com.
It's our fifth year of getting the patrons together and giving thanks for the new music that gave us happiness and good vibes in 2024. There's a wide array of bands and artists, new and old, that helped make 2024 a great year for music. New albums from 1980s, 90s and 00s artists like The Cure, Pearl Jam, Judas Priest, Underworld, The Black Crowes, John Davis (Superdrag), The Sheila Divine, Jack White, Pig, the Pixies, Watershed, Sebastian Bach, Silver Sun, D-A-D, J. Mascis, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Primal Scream, The Smile, and many more all released great late career records, while newer bands like Return to Dust, Ahem, Friko, The Blackburns, Crows, and several others landed on our radar. Songs In This Episode Intro - Alone by The Cure (from Songs from a Lost World) 3:38 - Trust In Me by Silver Sun (from Mild Peril) 11:49 - (Hold On) To The Dream by Sebastian Bach (from Child Within The Man) 18:11 - Lapdog by Ahem (from Avoider) 21:34 - Fallout by Pig (from Feast of Agony EP) 31:17 - Free To Fall by John Davis (from JINX) 34:32 - Trial By Fire by Judas Priest (from Invincible Shield) 42:00 - Automaticity by J. Robbins (from Basilisk) 52:01 - Wanting and Waiting by The Black Crowes (from Happiness Bastards) 1:08:41 - The Darkness by The Sheila Divine (from I Am The Darkness. We Are The Light) Outro - Dark Matter by Pearl Jam (from Dark Matter) Support the podcast, join the DMO UNION at Patreon. Listen to the episode archive at DigMeOutPodcast.com.
Are you too mindful on your runs? It might be time to dial it back.I dive into the surprising downside of being too mindful during your runs and how it can disrupt your flow and performance. We explore the fine line between conscious awareness and muscle memory, revealing how to harness mindfulness effectively without letting it derail your progress.Learn how to find the right balance and implement techniques that keep you in the zone, effortlessly improving your running experience.TIMESTAMPS OF WHAT YOU'LL LEARN- [00:00:00] - Introduction and Overview- [00:00:15] - Setting the Stage for the Discussion on Mindfulness in Running- [00:01:15] - The 14-Mile Run Story: A Personal Story Where Mindfulness Backfired During a Long Run- [00:02:22] - The Moment of Disruption: How Being Overly Mindful Threw Off My Stride and Rhythm- [00:02:49] - Science of Mindfulness: Exploring Research on Mindfulness and Automaticity in Athletic Performance- [00:03:54] - Balancing Awareness and Flow: Finding the Right Balance Between Conscious Awareness and Muscle Memory- [00:04:30] - Challenges of Excessive Mindfulness: Too Much Mindfulness Can Hinder Running Performance- [00:06:11] - Real-World Application: Practical Advice on Applying Mindfulness Without Overthinking- [00:08:01] - Importance of Muscle Memory: Understanding the Role of Muscle Memory in Sustaining Long Runs- [00:08:51] - Achieving Meditative Flow: Techniques for Entering a Flow State Without Disrupting Your Run- [00:10:37] - Final Thoughts and Tips: Concluding Insights and Actionable Advice for Mindful RunningLINKS & LEARNINGS- The One Percent Better Runner Newsletter - https://dlakecreates.com/news- DLake Runs on Instagram - https://instagram.com/dlakecreates- Can Mindfulness Backfire? https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/201311/can-mindfulness-backfire- Listen, read and learn more here https://dlakecreates.com/mindful Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode, Dr. Jennifer Noonan shares SLA insights on how “Output Promotes Automaticity”. Tune in! ***GlossaHouse resources are available at our website! - https://glossahouse.com/ ✏️ ***Sign up for classes with GlossaHouse U - https://glossahouse.com/pages/classes
This is episode 4 of a 6-part special series on sleep with Dr. Matthew Walker, Ph.D., a professor of neuroscience and psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of the best-selling book "Why We Sleep." In this episode, we discuss the relationship between sleep, learning and creativity. We explain why and how sleep before and after a learning bout can improve memory and performance for both cognitive tasks and physical skills. We also discuss how to use time learning and sleep, how to use naps, non-sleep deep rest states, and caffeine to optimize learning, and the mechanisms for sleep and memory consolidation. We also explain the critical role that sleep plays in creativity and one's ability to discover novel solutions to challenges and problems. This episode is filled with actionable information on using sleep to enhance skill learning and improve memory and creativity. The next episode in this guest series explains how sleep benefits emotional regulation and mental health. For show notes, including referenced articles and additional resources, please visit hubermanlab.com. Thank you to our sponsors AG1: https://drinkag1.com/huberman Helix Sleep: https://helixsleep.com/huberman WHOOP: https://join.whoop.com/huberman Waking Up: https://wakingup.com/huberman InsideTracker: https://insidetracker.com/huberman Momentous: https://livemomentous.com/huberman Timestamps (00:00:00) Sleep & Learning (00:00:59) Sponsors: Helix Sleep, Whoop & Waking Up (00:05:48) Learning, Memory & Sleep (00:09:32) Memory & Sleep, “All-Nighters”, Hippocampus (00:13:46) Naps & Learning Capacity (00:16:59) Early School Start Times, Performance & Accidents (00:26:38) Medical Residency & Sleep Deprivation (00:29:35) Sponsor: AG1 (00:30:49) Tool: Sleep Before Learning; Cramming Effect (00:35:09) Tools: Caffeine; Timing Peak Learning; “Second Wind” (00:44:25) Memory Consolidation in Sleep (00:55:07) Sleepwalking & Talking; REM-Sleep Behavioral Disorder (01:00:16) REM Sleep Paralysis, Alcohol, Stress (01:07:41) Sponsor: InsideTracker (01:08:46) Skills, Motor Learning & Sleep (01:17:03) Tool: Timing Sleep & Learning, Skill Enhancement (01:20:00) Naps; Specificity & Memory Consolidation, Sleep Spindles (01:27:21) Sleep, Motor Learning & Athletes; Automaticity (01:34:10) Can Learning Improve Sleep? (01:39:13) Tool: Exercise to Improve Sleep; Performance, Injury & Motivation (01:44:38) Pillars of Health; Dieting & Sleep Deprivation (01:49:35) Performance & Poor Sleep, Belief Effects, “Orthosomnia” (01:57:03) “Overnight Alchemy”, Sleep & Novel Memory Linking (02:05:58) Sleep & Creativity (02:11:09) Tools: Waking & Technology; Naps; “Sleep on a Problem” (02:20:51) Creative Insight & Sleep (02:26:18) Zero-Cost Support, Spotify & Apple Reviews, Sponsors, YouTube Feedback, Momentous, Social Media, Neural Network Newsletter Disclaimer
Cathy Fosnot and Pam Harris are The Queens of Number Strings (or Problem Strings as Pam would call them). I'm way too excited about the fact they are teaming up to do a one-day workshop all about using Problem Strings for Automaticity, Fluency, and Beyond. If you've been doing number strings and want to go more in depth on how to use them in your classroom, I highly recommend going to this workshop. Go to https://buildmathminds.com/159 to get links to items mentioned in the episode.
Habit is a tool that either makes you or breaks you. It's up to you...
Habit is a tool that either makes you or breaks you. It's up to you...
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Welcome to the Social-Engineer Podcast: The Doctor Is In Series – where we will discuss understandings and developments in the field of psychology. In today's episode, Chris and Abbie are discussing mimicry. What it is, its multiple forms, and why we do it. [Oct 2, 2023] 00:00 - Intro 00:17 - Dr. Abbie Maroño Intro 01:17 - Intro Links - Social-Engineer.com - http://www.social-engineer.com/ - Managed Voice Phishing - https://www.social-engineer.com/services/vishing-service/ - Managed Email Phishing - https://www.social-engineer.com/services/se-phishing-service/ - Adversarial Simulations - https://www.social-engineer.com/services/social-engineering-penetration-test/ - Social-Engineer channel on SLACK - https://social-engineering-hq.slack.com/ssb - CLUTCH - http://www.pro-rock.com/ - innocentlivesfoundation.org - http://www.innocentlivesfoundation.org/ 07:45 - The Topic of the Day: Mimicry 08:04 - A Definition 09:04 - Building Relationships 10:35 - The Downside of Mimicry 12:31 - Accidental Mimicking 14:25 - A Need to Belong 17:14 - Emotional Mimicry 21:01 - Misinterpretation 23:11 - Reverse-Engineering Emotions 26:22 - 3rd Party Perspective 29:40 - Reading the Relationship 32:08 - Timing is Everything 34:58 - Fundamentals 40:17 - Wrap Up 43:06 - Next Month: Music and the Senses 43:28 - Outro - www.social-engineer.com - www.innocentlivesfoundation.org Find us online: - Twitter: https://twitter.com/abbiejmarono - LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/dr-abbie-maroño-phd-35ab2611a - Twitter: https://twitter.com/humanhacker - LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/christopherhadnagy References: Aron, A., Aron, E.N., Smollan, D., 1992. Inclusion of other in the self scale and the structure of interpersonal closeness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 63, 596–612 Bargh, J.A., Chen, M., Burrows, L., 1996. Automaticity of social behavior: direct effects of trait construct and stereotype activation on action. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 71, 230–244. Bavelas, J.B., Black, A., Chovil, N., Lemery, C.R., Mullett, J., 1988. Form and function in motor mimicry: topographic evidence that the primary function is communicative. Human Communication Research 14, 275–299. Bhabha, H. (1984). Of mimicry and man: The ambivalence of colonial discourse. October, 28, 125-133. Bourgeois, P., & Hess, U. (2008). The impact of social context on mimicry. Biological psychology, 77(3), 343-352. Chartrand, T.L., Bargh, J.A., 1999. The chameleon effect: the perception– behavior link and social interaction. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 76, 893–910. Chartrand, T.L., Maddux, W.W., Lakin, J.L., 2005. Beyond the perception– behavior link: the ubiquitous utility and motivational moderators of nonconscious mimicry. In: Hassin, R.R., Uleman, J.S., Bargh, J.A. (Eds.), The New Unconscious. Oxford University Press, New York, NY, pp. 334–361 Dijksterhaus, A., Bargh, J.A., 2001. The perception–behavior expressway: automatic effects of social perception on social behavior. In: Zanna, M. (Ed.), Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, vol. 33. Academic Press, San Diego, CA, pp. 1–40. Hess, U., Herrera, P., Bourgeois, P., Blairy, S., 1997. Do people mimic what they see or what they know? Facial mimicry revisited. Paper presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Cape Cod, MA, October 15–19th. Hess, U., Philippot, P., Blairy, S., 1999. Marono, A. J. (2022). The role of closeness in the relationship between nonverbal mimicry and cooperation. Lancaster University (United Kingdom). Mimicry: facts and fiction. In: Philippot, P., Feldman, R.S. (Eds.), The Social Context of Nonverbal Behavior. Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 213–241. Van Baaren, R. B., Holland, R. W., Kawakami, K., & Van Knippenberg, A. (2004). Mimicry and prosocial behavior. Psychological science, 15(1), 71-74.
“Literal Banana” on Carcinization writes Against Automaticity, which they describe as: An explanation of why tricks like priming, nudge, the placebo effect, social contagion, the “emotional inception” model of advertising, most “cognitive biases,” and any field with “behavioral” in its name are not real. My summary (as always, read the real thing to keep me honest): for a lot of the ‘90s and ‘00s, social scientists were engaged in ttthe project of proving “automaticity”, the claim that most human decisions are unconscious/unreasoned/automatic and therefore bad. Cognitive biases, social priming, advertising science, social contagion research, “nudges”, etc, were all part of this grand agenda. https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/heres-why-automaticity-is-real-actually
In this episode, Dr. Jennifer E. Noonan continues discussing features of SLA. On the agenda: Automaticity in language learning. Tune in! #sla #language #languagelearning #ancientlanguages #polyglot #linguistics #appliedlinguistics SLA, Language, Language Learning, Ancient Languages, Polyglot, Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/glossahouse/message
Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.07.31.551290v1?rss=1 Authors: Liu, S., Rosso, A. L., Baillargeon, E. M., Weinstein, A. M., Torres-Oviedo, G. Abstract: Gait automaticity refers to the ability to walk with minimal recruitment of attentional networks typically mediated through the prefrontal cortex (PFC). Reduced gait automaticity is common with aging, contributing to an increased risk of falls and reduced quality of life. A common assessment of gait automaticity is to examine PFC activation via near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) during dual-task (DT), such as walking while performing a cognitive task. However, interpretation of PFC activity without considering task performance could be misleading. For example, greater PFC activation could be interpreted as worse gait automaticity when accompanied by worse DT performance but as compensatory when accompanied by better DT performance. Thus, there is a need to incorporate performance in interpretation of PFC measurements. To address this need, we propose a novel automaticity index as an analytical approach that combines changes in PFC activity with changes in DT performance to quantify gait automaticity. The efficacy of the index was verified in 173 participants ( greater than or equal to 65 y/o) who completed DTs with two levels of difficulty while PFC activation was recorded with fNIRS. The two DTs consisted of reciting every other letter of the alphabet while walking over either an even or uneven surface. We found that compared to PFC activation, our novel index better reflected the decrease in automaticity as DT difficulty increases. Furthermore, decreased cognitive ability was related to worse automaticity index, but not PFC activation or DT performance, suggesting that the index is more sensitive to individual characteristics that influence automaticity. In sum, the proposed automaticity index better quantified the between task and individual differences in automaticity by providing a unified measure of gait automaticity that includes both brain activation and performance. This new approach opens exciting possibilities to assess subject-specific deficits and compare rehabilitation outcomes from gait automaticity interventions. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC
In this episode, we discuss how our minds automate processes and what the ontological, epistemic, and moral impacts are on our free will.
Savannah Campbell shares all about the importance of cumulative review! Full Show Notes Here Cumulative Review: Cumulative review is simply giving children enough practice in the skills that we have taught them, so they are able to read to automaticity. We do a great job teaching the “skills” from day to day, but what we don't do is give them multiple opportunities to practice. Automaticity is a precursor to reading comprehension. We have to practice these skills 4-6 weeks after we have taught them. Connect with Savannah: Website Instagram Facebook Resources for Cumulative Review: Cumulative Review Blog Post- Savannah Campbell Sound Decks Fluency Grids Word Chaining Dictation Helpers
Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: The challenge of articulating tacit knowledge, published by NinaR on May 31, 2023 on LessWrong. I enjoy eating high-quality baked goods. When visiting a new place, I often spend many hours walking around town, scouting out the best bakeries. In London, where I live, I have explored the whole city, trying to find the best pain au chocolat (Jolene), seeded sourdough loaf (E5), babka (Margot), banana bread (Violet), cheese pretzel (Sourdough Sophia), and many other specific things. By now, I can take one glance at a bakery or cafe, in person or online, and be confident whether or not their baked goods will be to my taste before trying them. However, I'm not good at explaining my flash judgments on bakeries or helping others improve at bakery quality prediction - why? This is an example of the more general problem of communicating tacit knowledge and intuitions. Whether explaining what makes good writing, teaching someone to cook well, or describing how to look for mathematical proofs, it is challenging to articulate the many heuristics and automatic thought processes that build up after sufficient experience and deliberate practice. However, it's not worth abandoning attempts to communicate such things altogether - succeeding can significantly accelerate another's skill development, reducing the need for time-consuming trial-and-error approaches. To this end, the first stage is acknowledging why you're having trouble articulating some knowledge. Then, once you have identified why you cannot easily verbalize your tacit knowledge, there are various strategies you can use to overcome the barrier, that is, if you decide you want to do so. I broadly break down why sharing tacit knowledge is hard into six categories: Complexity, Linguistic Constraints, The Curse of Knowledge, Personal Context-Dependence, Fear of Criticism, and Automaticity. Complexity Tacit knowledge often involves a complex combination of heuristics, variables, and computations that may be challenging to convey succinctly. For instance, a seasoned paramedic responding to a critical situation will rely on many cues, such as the patient's breathing patterns, skin color, heart rate, and subjective symptoms, to quickly diagnose the problem and provide immediate care. This paramedic's ability to rapidly assess and react to the situation comes from years of hands-on experience and intuition developed over countless emergencies. Conveying this intricate skill set to a novice paramedic is challenging due to the many variables involved. To overcome the challenge of complexity, it can be effective to break down the knowledge into smaller sub-components. This approach could involve narrating specific instances where you used your intuition or skill to decide, providing concrete examples of how the process works. For example, the experienced paramedic could start by sharing basic cues they look for in common emergencies such as heart attacks or strokes. They could describe the specific indicators they observe, like facial drooping, arm weakness, and speech difficulties in stroke victims, or chest pain, shortness of breath, and nausea in heart attack victims. They could also detail how they gather these observations quickly and systematically when arriving on the scene of an emergency. Linguistic Constraints Some forms of tacit knowledge are nearly impossible to articulate in language. For example, describing how to ride a bicycle to someone else in words is problematic because this knowledge is deeply ingrained in our motor skills rather than simply expressed in words. To overcome linguistic constraints, one must often "show, not tell" via demonstrations, visuals, and hands-on experience. For instance, teaching someone to ride a bicycle requires less talk and more physical demonstration and guided practice. The Curse of...
Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: The challenge of articulating tacit knowledge, published by NinaR on May 31, 2023 on LessWrong. I enjoy eating high-quality baked goods. When visiting a new place, I often spend many hours walking around town, scouting out the best bakeries. In London, where I live, I have explored the whole city, trying to find the best pain au chocolat (Jolene), seeded sourdough loaf (E5), babka (Margot), banana bread (Violet), cheese pretzel (Sourdough Sophia), and many other specific things. By now, I can take one glance at a bakery or cafe, in person or online, and be confident whether or not their baked goods will be to my taste before trying them. However, I'm not good at explaining my flash judgments on bakeries or helping others improve at bakery quality prediction - why? This is an example of the more general problem of communicating tacit knowledge and intuitions. Whether explaining what makes good writing, teaching someone to cook well, or describing how to look for mathematical proofs, it is challenging to articulate the many heuristics and automatic thought processes that build up after sufficient experience and deliberate practice. However, it's not worth abandoning attempts to communicate such things altogether - succeeding can significantly accelerate another's skill development, reducing the need for time-consuming trial-and-error approaches. To this end, the first stage is acknowledging why you're having trouble articulating some knowledge. Then, once you have identified why you cannot easily verbalize your tacit knowledge, there are various strategies you can use to overcome the barrier, that is, if you decide you want to do so. I broadly break down why sharing tacit knowledge is hard into six categories: Complexity, Linguistic Constraints, The Curse of Knowledge, Personal Context-Dependence, Fear of Criticism, and Automaticity. Complexity Tacit knowledge often involves a complex combination of heuristics, variables, and computations that may be challenging to convey succinctly. For instance, a seasoned paramedic responding to a critical situation will rely on many cues, such as the patient's breathing patterns, skin color, heart rate, and subjective symptoms, to quickly diagnose the problem and provide immediate care. This paramedic's ability to rapidly assess and react to the situation comes from years of hands-on experience and intuition developed over countless emergencies. Conveying this intricate skill set to a novice paramedic is challenging due to the many variables involved. To overcome the challenge of complexity, it can be effective to break down the knowledge into smaller sub-components. This approach could involve narrating specific instances where you used your intuition or skill to decide, providing concrete examples of how the process works. For example, the experienced paramedic could start by sharing basic cues they look for in common emergencies such as heart attacks or strokes. They could describe the specific indicators they observe, like facial drooping, arm weakness, and speech difficulties in stroke victims, or chest pain, shortness of breath, and nausea in heart attack victims. They could also detail how they gather these observations quickly and systematically when arriving on the scene of an emergency. Linguistic Constraints Some forms of tacit knowledge are nearly impossible to articulate in language. For example, describing how to ride a bicycle to someone else in words is problematic because this knowledge is deeply ingrained in our motor skills rather than simply expressed in words. To overcome linguistic constraints, one must often "show, not tell" via demonstrations, visuals, and hands-on experience. For instance, teaching someone to ride a bicycle requires less talk and more physical demonstration and guided practice. The Curse of...
Mental toughness! What does it mean? How do we develop it? Does Al drink coffee or tea? Automaticity, problem-solving, beliefs, mindsets, skills, focus, and more. Timestamps:0:00 - Start of episode54:30 - End of episode
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Shannon chats with Stephanie Summers from Pride Reading Program about the topic of helping students build their reading fluency. They talk about what skills go into a student's reading fluency. They share ways to work on fluency with readers. In their chat, they reference ideas from The Megabook of Fluency by Timothy Rasinski. Episode Links for Resources mentioned:What is fluency?Fluency methodsNote from Timothy RaskinskiThe Megabook of Fluency by Timothy Raskinski *Amazon affiliate link*Reading Rockets: Reading Basics-FluencyReading Rockets: Developing Fluent ReadersReading Plus-a reading fluency softwareThe Measured Mom: How to Improve Reading Fluency FCRR Fluency Activities K & 1st GradeFCRR Fluency Activities 2nd & 3rd GradeFCRR Fluency Activities 4th & 5th GradeGoogle Docs Forced Copy of Shannon's created Weekly Fluency RubricPride Reading Program's WebsitePride Reading Program on Facebook Pride Reading Program on Instagram COME JOIN THE CONVERSATION!Our WebsiteFacebookInstagramShannon's TpT StoreSupport the show
Episode 112: This week on Thinking Deeply about Primary Education, I'm joined by Lisa Coe, Shannen Doherty and Sarah Farrell for an in-depth exploration of multiplication tables, the fallout from the first official multiplication check in England and how we can support all pupils in developing automaticity and understanding in this area of mathematics. As part of the chat we discuss... 1. With regards to multiplication tables what comes first, knowing or understanding? 2. What systems or approaches should and can we put in place to help pupils learn about multiplication tables? 3. What did you think of the outcomes of the MTC this year (2022) Is there anything you'd change on a school or systemic level as a result? 4. If we imagine that the MTC is a suitable proxy for pupils knowing their times tables, what would you change on a systemic level so that more than 27% can be considered to know their times tables at the end of Year 4? 5. If pupils are struggling to develop quick or even derivative recall of multiplication facts what can we put in place to support them? ...plus much, much more. Whether you're new to the profession or an experienced senior leader, you won't want to miss this one!
James Tunney, LLM, is an Irish barrister who has lectured on legal matters throughout the world. He is a poet, artist, scholar, and author of The Mystery of the Trapped Light: Mystical Thoughts in the Dark Age of Scientism plus The Mystical Accord: Sutras to Suit Our Times, Lines for Spiritual Evolution; also Empire of … Continue reading "Rule of an Automaticity Loop with James Tunney"
Pupils shouldn't be the only learners in the classroom. Good teachers are constantly learning new knowledge and developing new understanding and then using it in their practice. In this episode Fin and Jane discuss the concept of deliberate practice. Cognitive Load and Classroom Teaching: The Double-Edged Sword of Automaticity https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232817919_Cognitive_Load_and_Classroom_Teaching_The_Double-Edged_Sword_of_Automaticity Subscribe to ImpactPlus today: www.impact.wales/impactplus Hosts: Finola Wilson and Jane Miller Producer: Darren Evans Visit us at: www.impact.wales Music: Power Shutoff by Craig MacArthur --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impacthome/message
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Read the full transcript here. How can we as individuals and as societies un-break politics? What is the two-step ideal of reasoned politics? How might this ideal apply to specific political issues, like free speech? Is it possible to reach agreement or even compromise on political issues that are rooted in intrinsic values? How can we reduce our own political biases? Are there some political issues which must always or by definition be zero-sum, or can all issues conceivably become positive-sum?Magnus Vinding is the author of Speciesism: Why It Is Wrong and the Implications of Rejecting It, Reflections on Intelligence, You Are Them, Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications, and Reasoned Politics. He has a degree in mathematics from the University of Copenhagen, and in 2020, he co-founded the Center for Reducing Suffering, whose mission is to reduce severe suffering in a way that takes all sentient beings into account.Further reading:"Compassionate Free Speech" (2020), an essay by Magnus Vinding on free speech, compassion, and social mediaReasoned Politics (2022), a book by Magnus Vinding available for free downloadHate: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship, by Nadine Strossen"How a cultural revolt against "political correctness" helped launch Trump into the presidency", by Lucien Gideon Conway III"Understanding Libertarian Morality: The Psychological Dispositions of Self-Identified Libertarians", by Ravi Iyer, Spassena Koleva, Jesse Graham, Peter Ditto, and Jonathan HaidtReporters Without Borders indexA Twitter thread by Michael Petersen that presents some evidence suggesting that bans are counterproductive to fighting disinformation"The Automaticity of Affect for Political Leaders, Groups, and Issues: An Experimental Test of the Hot Cognition Hypothesis", by Milton Lodge and Charles S. Taber"Beyond Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) Psychology: Measuring and Mapping Scales of Cultural and Psychological Distance", by Michael Muthukrishna, Adrian V. Bell, Joseph Henrich, Camerom M. Curtin, Alexander Gedranovich, Jason McInerney, and Brandon Thue"Disagreement or Badmouthing? The Role of Expressive Discourse in Politics", by Michael Hannon [Read more]
Read the full transcriptHow can we as individuals and as societies un-break politics? What is the two-step ideal of reasoned politics? How might this ideal apply to specific political issues, like free speech? Is it possible to reach agreement or even compromise on political issues that are rooted in intrinsic values? How can we reduce our own political biases? Are there some political issues which must always or by definition be zero-sum, or can all issues conceivably become positive-sum?Magnus Vinding is the author of Speciesism: Why It Is Wrong and the Implications of Rejecting It, Reflections on Intelligence, You Are Them, Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications, and Reasoned Politics. He has a degree in mathematics from the University of Copenhagen, and in 2020, he co-founded the Center for Reducing Suffering, whose mission is to reduce severe suffering in a way that takes all sentient beings into account.Further reading:"Compassionate Free Speech" (2020), an essay by Magnus Vinding on free speech, compassion, and social mediaReasoned Politics (2022), a book by Magnus Vinding available for free downloadHate: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship, by Nadine Strossen"How a cultural revolt against "political correctness" helped launch Trump into the presidency", by Lucien Gideon Conway III"Understanding Libertarian Morality: The Psychological Dispositions of Self-Identified Libertarians", by Ravi Iyer, Spassena Koleva, Jesse Graham, Peter Ditto, and Jonathan HaidtReporters Without Borders indexA Twitter thread by Michael Petersen that presents some evidence suggesting that bans are counterproductive to fighting disinformation"The Automaticity of Affect for Political Leaders, Groups, and Issues: An Experimental Test of the Hot Cognition Hypothesis", by Milton Lodge and Charles S. Taber"Beyond Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) Psychology: Measuring and Mapping Scales of Cultural and Psychological Distance", by Michael Muthukrishna, Adrian V. Bell, Joseph Henrich, Camerom M. Curtin, Alexander Gedranovich, Jason McInerney, and Brandon Thue"Disagreement or Badmouthing? The Role of Expressive Discourse in Politics", by Michael Hannon
Read the full transcriptHow can we as individuals and as societies un-break politics? What is the two-step ideal of reasoned politics? How might this ideal apply to specific political issues, like free speech? Is it possible to reach agreement or even compromise on political issues that are rooted in intrinsic values? How can we reduce our own political biases? Are there some political issues which must always or by definition be zero-sum, or can all issues conceivably become positive-sum?Magnus Vinding is the author of Speciesism: Why It Is Wrong and the Implications of Rejecting It, Reflections on Intelligence, You Are Them, Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications, and Reasoned Politics. He has a degree in mathematics from the University of Copenhagen, and in 2020, he co-founded the Center for Reducing Suffering, whose mission is to reduce severe suffering in a way that takes all sentient beings into account.Further reading:"Compassionate Free Speech" (2020), an essay by Magnus Vinding on free speech, compassion, and social mediaReasoned Politics (2022), a book by Magnus Vinding available for free downloadHate: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship, by Nadine Strossen"How a cultural revolt against "political correctness" helped launch Trump into the presidency", by Lucien Gideon Conway III"Understanding Libertarian Morality: The Psychological Dispositions of Self-Identified Libertarians", by Ravi Iyer, Spassena Koleva, Jesse Graham, Peter Ditto, and Jonathan HaidtReporters Without Borders indexA Twitter thread by Michael Petersen that presents some evidence suggesting that bans are counterproductive to fighting disinformation"The Automaticity of Affect for Political Leaders, Groups, and Issues: An Experimental Test of the Hot Cognition Hypothesis", by Milton Lodge and Charles S. Taber"Beyond Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) Psychology: Measuring and Mapping Scales of Cultural and Psychological Distance", by Michael Muthukrishna, Adrian V. Bell, Joseph Henrich, Camerom M. Curtin, Alexander Gedranovich, Jason McInerney, and Brandon Thue"Disagreement or Badmouthing? The Role of Expressive Discourse in Politics", by Michael Hannon
225 - James Tunney rejoins the podcast to discuss the emergence of an inescapable totalitarian loop. James is an author and painter who left a successful career in law to focus on spiritual and artistic development. He is a leading voice critiquing the implications of transhumanism and collective abandonment of our spiritual consciousness.Full discussion topics include:-Loops as the building block of consciousness-Technocracy as a closed-circuit loop system -The outsourcing of socialization to artificial intelligence-Modern day imperialism and the colonization of human consciousness -Living in the Human Zoo -The rise of a global Fourth Reich system-Reclaiming the natural process of spiritual evolutionConnect with James Tunney:Official WebsiteNew Book: Plantation of the AutomatonsDonate to support this show!PayPal | VenmoPurchase a copy of The Mystical Collection: Poems on Love, Freedom, and Awakening.Book a Donation Based Tarot ReadingConnect with Evan:Subscribe on SubstackInstagramTwitterYoutubeStart Your Own PodcastThe Fifth Dimension ShopIf you like the show, please subscribe & leave us a Review :)Theme Music:Highland Song by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.comMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Support the show
217 - James Tunney rejoins The Fifth Dimension for a fifth appearance to discuss the emergence of a technocratic global plantation. In this deep dive episode, James outlines the origins of globalism, the current technocratic agenda being implemented through a classic plantation model, and how mankind has been conditioned into accepting the eradication of spiritual consciousness.In what is likely one of the most important conversations had on my podcast, James offers a clear foundation for how the globalist agenda of technocracy has been able to take root in our subconscious minds as we orchestrate and acquiesce our own enslavement to the technological plantation. It is only through understanding a full history of this movement that we can begin to address it at its root. This episode offers an in depth look on globalism's origins that you won't find anywhere else.James is an author and painter who left a successful career in law to focus on spiritual and artistic development. He is leading voice speaking out about the implications of transhumanism and the abandonment of our spiritual nature.Purchase James Tunney's books hereOfficial WebsitePurchase a copy of The Mystical Collection: Poems on Love, Freedom, and Awakening.Connect with Evan:Subscribe on SubstackInstagramTwitterYoutubeStart Your Own PodcastThe Fifth Dimension ShopDonate to our Fundraiser supporting this show!PayPal | VenmoIf you like the show, please subscribe & leave us a Review :)Theme Music:Highland Song by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.comMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Support the show
"The more we have the habit of checking in with our intentions, bringing them consciously to mind, and then seeing how our actions align helps us to navigate those external things that come up, that try to drag us away, and get in the way of being intentional."Listen on the website and read the transcriptWatch this episode on YouTube
204 - James Tunney returns to The Fifth Dimension for a fourth appearance to discuss the automaticity of the new world order and creation of a human automation. James is an author and painter who left a successful career in law to focus on spiritual and artistic development. Purchase James Tunney's books hereOfficial WebsiteConnect with Evan:Subscribe on SubstackInstagramTelegramTwitterYoutubeWork With Me:Donation Based ServicesSupport my work directly:Donations: PayPal | Venmo | CryptoStart Your Own PodcastThe Fifth Dimension ShopIf you like the show, please subscribe & leave us a Review :)Theme Music:Highland Song by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.comMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Support the show
PT, PTA – this podcast may help you meet your continuing education requirements. Access Relias Academy to review course certificate information. Today we talk with Mike Studer, an expert in neurologic physical therapy and motor learning. We discuss how to assess dual task abilities and develop targeted interventions for your patients. (00:28) Introduction (06:40) Review of Neurophysiology (18:53) Dual Task Assessment (36:18) Types of Dual Task Training (40:24) Autonomy in Dual Task Training (42:48) Goal Setting for Therapeutic Outcomes (54:07) Conclusion The content for this course was created by Mike Studer, PT, MHS, NCS, CEEAA, CWT, CSST, FAPTA. The content for this course was created by Tiffany Shubert, PT, PhD. Here is how Relias can help you earn continuing education credits: Access your Relias Library offered by your employer to see course certificate information and exam; or Access the continuing education library for clinicians at Relias Academy. Review the course certificate information, and if eligible, you can purchase the course to access the course exam and receive your certificate. Learn more about Relias at www.relias.com. Legal Disclaimer: The content of Stretch: Relias Rehab Therapy Education is provided only for educational and training purposes for healthcare professionals. The educational material provided in this podcast should not be used as medical advice to treat any medical condition in either yourself or others.
The stress of divorce can trigger a wide range of emotional responses, including eating disorders. Today, I'm joined by Dr. Susan Thompson, President of the Institute for Sustainable Weight Loss and the founder of the worldwide Bright Line Eating Movement, to discuss the psychology behind how and why we eat the way we do. Susan Peirce Thompson, Ph.D. is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Rochester and an expert in the psychology of eating. She is President of the Institute for Sustainable Weight Loss and the founder of the worldwide Bright Line Eating movement. Her first two books, including “Bright Line Eating: The Science of Living Happy, Thin, and Free,” became New York Times bestsellers and instant Hay House favorites. Her work weaves the neuroscience of food addiction with powerful insights from Positive Psychology, IFS, and 12-Step Recovery to outline a roadmap for achieving true integrity and self-authorship around food. The Bright Line Eating mission is to help one million people around the globe discover lasting food freedom and have their “Bright Transformations” by 2025. We all have automated our eating habits to a large extent. To retrain our brains and change these habits, it takes about 3-4 months of discipline and intense structure. Bright Line Eating works because They take food addiction seriously. They know that the solution is automaticity; you're never going to win if it's about choice and willpower. Automaticity is brushing your teeth in the morning and night without thinking about it. Bright Line will teach you how to tap into that part of the brain so you treat eating the same way. Eating disorders can be developed as a way for a person to cope with stressful situations, and can cause a person to overeat or undereat. When it comes to the first, the idea that food can be an addiction is controversial. Bright Line addresses this idea by drawing a line around problem substances like flour and sugar. If you're struggling with an eating disorder during or after divorce, tap into the psychology behind how and why you eat the way you do. If it's time to build a new relationship with food, consider retraining your brain with a program like Bright Line, join a group, or talk to a Doctor / therapist.
Host Cooper tells a story of when his teacher learned the work automaticity with help from her 1st grade students.
Headphones recommended. This Podcast is all about rediscovering your sensuality as women. Water plays a major role in this mindfulness technique. Women can release their anxiety, fears, worries, stress, sorrow and all that heavy baggage that they have been carrying around with them. Women of all ages can immerse themselves into their world of femininity and immerse their senses into this beautiful journey into themselves. There is plenty of room for expression and unlocking your desires and wishes. All material in this podcast video is original and expresses my love for water and oxygen as the principles of harmony with myself and nature. VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ub4bMYxNlM What is mindfulness? Mindfulness is a type of meditation in which you focus on being intensely aware of what you're sensing and feeling in the moment, without interpretation or judgment. Practicing mindfulness involves breathing methods, guided imagery, and other practices to relax the body and mind and help reduce stress. Join me on this relaxing journey listening to the background sounds of the ocean and light piano music. These sounds evoke calmness for the human ear and brain waves. You will feel completely relaxed and full of positive energy after this 21 minute mindfullness training. The 8 Pillars of Mindfulness 1: Attention & the Now. A core component of mindfulness practices, is focusing attention on the present moment. 2: Automaticity. 3: Judgment. 4: Acceptance. 5: Goals. 6: Compassion. 7: The Ego. 8: Integration. Website: http://celestefabrie.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bronwyn59/message
World-class performance is less about your genetics and more about your habits. In this episode of The Daily Mastery Podcast, Robin Sharma deconstructs the method the pros use to install habits that truly last [it's called The 66-Day Minimum].To help you stay positive, productive and peaceful in volatile conditions, Robin Sharma is giving away his #1 ebook for free. Click here to download yours for free. FOLLOW ROBIN SHARMA:InstagramFacebookTwitterYouTube
We know what we need to do but sometimes it feels hard. In this episode I show you how to use the A-B-C's of automaticity, to help you easily and efficiently build any new habit. https://candymotzek.lpages.co/ultimate-guide-ccc1/ (Download your copy of The Ultimate Guide To Becoming A Coach Here:) Featured on The Show: https://stepintosuccessnow.com/blogs/news/ep-046 (Episode 46: The Motivational Triad) https://stepintosuccessnow.com/blogs/news/ep-078 (Episode 78: Make Friends With Fear) https://candymotzek.lpages.co/ultimate-guide-ccc1/ (Download The Ultimate Guide To Becoming A Coach) https://candy-motzek.mykajabi.com/work-with-me (Click here to learn how to apply to work with me )
Nathan is joined by Amanda McLeod, Chair of the National Handwriting Association, and Dan Wright, Deputy Headteacher and SENDCo, to discuss improving handwriting for all. What is it we are looking for from handwriting? Neatness? Speed? Fluency? Automaticity? Nathan asks what does the research say and are we being research-informed? They discuss the sort of barriers that pupils can face when we're looking at handwriting. And, what sort of things can be done? What interventions work? What about motivating learners and does giving out pen licences work?
Kate chats with Kateri McRae, Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Denver and the director of the Automaticity, Affect, Control & Thought Lab. Kateri's work focuses on emotion, cognition, and the interplay between them. In this episode, Kateri shares insights from her recently published quantitative case study of specific phobia for clothing buttons. Kateri also discusses the broader implications of her work for research on the different ways in which emotions can be generated: relatively automatic responses compared to the more "slow-burning" mental processes. Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1077722920300857
Nathan is joined by Nicky Parr @nicky_parr from Better Handwritten and Sue Smits from @MorrellsHand Handwriting discussing Handwriting and why we need to worry about it in a digital age. They discuss the Halo Effect, people (exam markers) making assumptions about academic ability because of handwriting and whether handwriting be too perfect? Nathan asks what is it we are looking for from handwriting? Neatness? Speed? Fluency? Automaticity? They also cover the big discussions on whether or not to teach lead in strokes, Pencil grip, and Pen licences. They discuss potential barriers for pupils and what can be done about them.
In this episode, I review the science of habit formation and habit elimination and how the process of neuroplasticity (brain rewiring) underlies these processes. I describe two new systems for habit formation. The first system is grounded in the neuroscience of brain states and our ability to perform (and to avoid) certain tasks at different phases of the 24-hour day. The second system focuses on 21-day habit formation and consolidation. I also discuss "task bracketing" as an approach to enhancing habit formation and eliminating unwanted habits and the neural circuits that underlie task bracketing in the basal ganglia (a brain region for generating and stopping behaviors). I also review the science of dopamine rewards and how to apply that knowledge to shaping habits. The science and tools in this episode ought to be helpful for anyone looking to build better habits and eliminate unwanted habits for school, work, fitness, relationships, creative endeavors, and more—indeed for any person or situation where behavioral changes are needed. Thank you to our sponsors: Athletic Greens - http://www.athleticgreens.com/huberman InsideTracker - http://www.insidetracker.com/huberman Helix Sleep - http://www.helixsleep.com/huberman Our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/andrewhuberman Supplements from Thorne: http://www.thorne.com/u/huberman Social: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/hubermanlab Twitter - https://twitter.com/hubermanlab Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/hubermanlab Website - https://hubermanlab.com Newsletter - https://hubermanlab.com/neural-network Links: Excellent review on science of habits - https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-psych-122414-033417 Meta-analysis on habits - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1539449219876877 Timestamps: 00:00:00 Introducing Habits; New Programs 00:02:30 Athletic Greens, InsideTracker, Helix Sleep 00:06:52 Habits versus Reflexes, Learning, Neuroplasticity 00:08:51 Goal-Based Habits vs. Identity-Based Habits 00:11:40 How Long It (Really) Takes to Form a Habit; Limbic-Friction 00:16:07 Linchpin Habits 00:18:55 Mapping Your Habits; Habit Strength, Context-Dependence 00:22:55 Automaticity 00:24:03 Tool 1: Applying Procedural Memory Visualizations 00:27:48 Hebbian Learning, NMDA receptors 00:31:00 Tool 2: Task Bracketing; Dorsolateral Striatum 00:37:08 States of Mind, Not Scheduling Time Predicts Habit Strength 00:38:16 Tool 3: Phase-Based Habit Plan: Phase 1 00:46:29 Tool 3: Phase-Based Habit Plan: Phase 2 00:55:24 Tool 3: Phase-Based Habit Plan: Phase 3 01:01:34 Habit Flexibility 01:04:57 Should We Reward Ourselves? How? When? When NOT to. 01:10:30 Tool 4: “Dopamine Spotlighting” & Task Bracketing 01:18:22 Tool 5: The 21-Day Habit Installation & Testing System 01:28:26 Breaking Habits: Long-Term (Synaptic) Depression 01:35:49 Notifications Don't Work 01:37:50 Tool 6: Break Bad Habits with Post-Bad-Habit “Positive Cargo” 01:44:26 Addictions as Habits: https://hubermanlab.com/dr-anna-lembke-understanding-and-treating-addiction/ 01:45:28 Conclusion & Synthesis 01:48:27 Zero-Cost Support, Sponsors, Patreon, Supplements, Instagram, Twitter Please note that The Huberman Lab Podcast is distinct from Dr. Huberman's teaching and research roles at Stanford University School of Medicine. The information provided in this show is not medical advice, nor should it be taken or applied as a replacement for medical advice. The Huberman Lab Podcast, its employees, guests and affiliates assume no liability for the application of the information discussed. Title Card Photo Credit: Mike Blabac - https://www.blabacphoto.com
This is a new and longer episode. I have included two Christmas stories. One from my childhood and one from last year. From now on I will be making more podcasts, more stories, and giving language learning tips. 00:00-05:09: Introduction to the new format for the podcast 05:10-10:47: What is happening in my life and other news 10:48-14:18: Language learning tip 1--> Keeping study activities balanced 14:19-27:12: Story 1--> Christmas when I was little27:13-33:00: Automaticity and being more automatic with English33:01- 39:55: Story 2--> Last Christmas (in 2020)39:55- 42:24: Mini Story 3-->What I did this Christmas (2021)42:25-44:37: Call out for People to get involved and other information44:38-46:19: OutroFor the transcripts, you can go to this page on my website:https://soundpracticelanguagelearning.com/podcast-transcripts/The transcript for this current podcast episode may take some time to edit and upload. So please be patient :)This is my website home page:https://soundpracticelanguagelearning.com
The Personal Brain Trainer Podcast: Embodying Executive Functions
Automaticity is the ability to complete tasks without occupying the conscious mind. These tasks become an automatic, unconscious response pattern or habit. This episode reveals the benefits of automaticity for learning and the steps required to achieve this goal. Steps of automaticity: Make a conscious choice to acquire a habit. Focus all your attention on this task and manage all distractions. Repeatedly learn small sets of information. Making your training progressively more difficult. “Slow (careful) is - Smooth is fast.” Decrease the time it takes to complete the task. Practicing doing this task while doing something else. Finally, as Pablo Picasso once said, “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” Links: Dance Mat Typing: https://bbc.in/3vM7B9M Blink By Malcolm Gladwell: https://amzn.to/3beBje9 Multisensory Multiplication and Division to Melodies: https://bit.ly/3CgUf7X Brought to you by - www.goodsensorylearning.com - www.learningspecialistcourses.com - www.bulletmapacademy.com
In this week's episode, I'm joined by Johnny Cardello again. We discuss how to develop a player's technique. We cover: - What is technique and how is this different from skill? - The element of pressure. - Teaching 1v1 dribbling. - Automaticity.
Automaticity: The ability to perform a task by automatic processing, independent of conscious control and attention. Strong automaticity is almost entirely automatic and can be carried out without attention. “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” - Carl Jung One lens: - Unconscious incompetence - Conscious incompetence - Conscious competence - Unconscious competence Another lens: - Biology - story of delta and spiders. With vertigo and horney, finding mothers brest. - Family history - story of the mice and raspberries - Sociocultural programming - Programming you do to yourself. And another: - Unconscious desires - Unconscious beliefs - Unconscious memories - Unconscious fears Contact us at info@cloudstreaks.com
The other day, Ben was listening to an episode of the MongoDB podcast in which Mat Keep shared a story about the adding of atomic transactions into the MongoDB product. Mat said that the engineer who spearheaded the effort used to joke about the fact that his team was spending a huge amount of time working on a feature that 90% of developers would never need. For Ben - who leans heavily on transactions for referential integrity - this sounded like an crazy statement. But is it? Are database transactions overrated? Or, is it more so that the type of use-cases that work best in a document database are also the type of uses-cases that don't really need transactions?On today's episode, the crew talks about how they use databases; the role of atomic transactions in the reduction of application complexity; and, whether or not they've ever felt "held back" by the limitations of a relational database management system. Full disclosure, all of the hosts have far more experience with traditional databases when compared to NoSQL databases.NOTE: In the show, Ben mentioned that a document database like MongoDB can't enforce schemas like a relational database. And while this was true in earlier versions of the MongoDB product, it is no longer true. In recent updates, MongoDB has added schema validation and enforcement.Notes & LinksMongoDB Podcast: Episode 67 - MongoDB Evolved with Mat KeepFollow the show! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram. Or, leave us a message at (512) 253-2633 (that's 512-253-CODE). New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday.And, if you're feeling the love, support us on Patreon.With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media.
Copywriting Made Simple (Exclusive Discount Code) geoffkullman.com/cms-podcast Journal Article: Automaticity of social behavior: Direct effects of trait construct and stereotype activation on action. https://web.mit.edu/curhan/www/docs/Articles/15341_Readings/Social_Cognition/Bargh_et_al_1996_Automaticity_of_social_behavior.pdf Bargh, J. A., Chen, M., & Burrows, L. (1996). Automaticity of social behavior: Direct effects of trait construct and stereotype activation on action. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 71(2), 230–244. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.71.2.230 Got a question you want answered on the podcast? Awesome! Go to geoffkullman.com/questions Connect with Geoff: Instagram: instagram.com/geoffkullman Twitter: twitter.com/geoffkullman Inquiries: geoffkullman.com Subscribe To The Podcast Here: Do you have friends, colleagues, or clients who would find The Psychology of Copywriting podcast valuable? Spread the word!
How to make activities more complex by adding physical to cognitive training. We break down the different ways that dual tasking works and how to push physical tasks to become more automatic. We discuss why this is important to train and address with our clients. Neuro Nugget of the week: Use this article by Tara McIsaac entitled Building a Framework for a Dual Task Taxonomy, published 2015, for brilliant ways to start and progress your cognitive and physical training. Assess your client for where to start with success and how to progress. Anti-racist action: How to be an active bystander vs passive https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/smarter-living/how-to-be-an-active-bystander-when-you-see-casual-racism.html
The importance of repetition until automaticity cannot be overstated. Repetition is the key to learning. — John Wooden --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
In the 71st Episode of The Breakthrough Secrets Podcast, Chris, Mike and our special guest, flying trapeze artist, founder of The Owl & The Pussycat w/ his wife Adrienne Jack-Sands, Paul Tracogna will talk about Learning Errors, mental rehearsal and different principles for an integral development and trapeze artist.Join us in this insightful and amazing talk!In this chapter you will discover:.(0:30) Introducing our special guest, flying trapeze artist, founder of The Owl & The Pussycat w/ his wife Adrienne Jack-Sands, Paul Tracogna(1:30) Paul origin story and he got in the world of artistic trapeze(4:30) Do trapeze artists do a self check of everything they need before their performance?(5:30) Paul contribution to StrongFirst @Strongfirst(8:00) Paul background of Crossfit(9:30) The importance of controlling your muscle mass as a trapeze artist(12:00) General Physical Preparation, Specifical Physical Preparation, Especial exercises and Competitive exercise(14:30) Practicing exercises in a block format(16:00) Strength Aerobic Protocols, shout out to Brett Jones @brettjonessfg(20:00) Variability and the concept of learning errors(23:20) Detaching oneself from mistakes(24:00) “Failure is just feedback” - Paul Tracogna(24:30 The Inner Game of Tennis Book by Timothy Gallwey https://www.amazon.com/Inner-Game-Tennis-Classic-Performance/dp/0679778314(26:00) The Mindset of a beginner and a primal sense of exploration(27:00) The importance of having a good sense of curiosity(29:00) Kettlebell partner passing, shout out to Michael Castrogiovanni(30:00) The dangers of social media(32:00) Being vulnerable and being aware of your ego(35:00) Instagram, being obsessed with the instant(38:00) Integral development for a trapeze artist(39:00) Paul experience with Cirque du Soleil @cirquedusoleil (40:50) Mental rehearsal, preparing your mindset as a trapeze artist(41:35) Visualization from 1st and 3rd person(42:00) Physical, emotional and intellectual(43:30) Shout out to Brian Grasso and Iron Tamer Dave @irontamer(45.50) “You are how you feel”(46.30) “As a beginner you have to watch yourself from the outside as a 3rd person, in an intermediate stage you have to almost purely stay internal. And as you become more advanced you start to go on autopilot which is a very good thing and a bad thing at some points”(47:50) “Before i knew the way, a kick was just a kick and a punch was just a punch. While i was learning the way a kick was more than just a kick and a punch was more than just a punch, and once i knew the way a kick was once again a kick and a punch was once again a punch” - Bruce Lee(48:40) The principle of Automaticity(57.30) Where to contact Paul Tracogna https://www.kettlebell.works/ .#Kettlebellsports #kettlebells #kettlebellworks #strength #power #speed #endurance #becomethestrongestversionofyourself #confidence #mindset #health #wellness #nextlevelliving #strong #powerful #humble #studentofstrength #strengthhasagreaterpurpose #breakthroughsecretspodcast #hardstyle #strongfirst #hardstylemethodFind Free Resources at www.kettlebell.works Liked the show? Please lease us a review!
In the 69th Episode of The Breakthrough Secrets Podcast, Mike and Chris will talk about the best lessons from the interview with Paul Tracogna Join us in this insightful and amazing talk!In this chapter you will discover:(0:40) Shout out to Paul Tracogna @owl.cat.trapeze(1:00) Skill acquisition and duo trapeze artist(3:40) Strength Aerobics, shout out to Brett Jones @brettjonessfg and Fabio Zonin @x_fab_69(6:50) Mental rehearsal(7:15) Predict the randomness(7:50) Make strength look elegant in performing art(8:50) The mindset for an aerobic artist, Shout out to Denis Vasilev @denisvasilevkbsport, Brian Grasso and Iron Tamer @irontamer(9:50) Embody a belief and sensation, Think and Grow Rich Book by Napoleon Hill https://www.amazon.com/Think-Grow-Rich-Original-RevisedTM-ebook/dp/B00VVN4YFW/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=think+and+grow+rich&qid=1617551694&s=books&sr=1-5(10:50) Mental approach on aerobics art(11:00) Relentless Book by Tim S. Grover https://www.amazon.com/Relentless-Unstoppable-Tim-S-Grover/dp/1476714207 (11:20) The 1% of the 1%, what separates the good from the great and the great from the best(12:00) “You're gonna go through a lot of learning errors, so you have to quickly get rid of the past”(13.20) About Golf. Play and exploration(14:00) The “what happens if” concept and how kids always apply it(17:00) Creativity, falling in love with what you don't know(17:50) Automaticity(21:20) “You have to have some automatic feeling, but also being prepared for the randomness of it” (22:00) Tension training(22:30) The Inner Game of Tennis Book by Timothy Gallwey https://www.amazon.com/Inner-Game-Tennis-Classic-Performance/dp/0679778314 (23:00) Open Book by Andre Agassi @agassi https://www.amazon.com/Open-Autobiography-Andre-Agassi/dp/0307388409 (25:00) “Failure = Feedback, Outcome = Process”(26:30) Learning errors(30:30) Mental Rehearsal is a skill(31:15) Detach from the outcome(33:30) Adrienne in America's Got Talent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IXqVt8jgT4 .#Kettlebellsports #kettlebells #kettlebellworks #strength #power #speed #endurance #becomethestrongestversionofyourself #confidence #mindset #health #wellness #nextlevelliving #strong #powerful #humble #studentofstrength #strengthhasagreaterpurpose #breakthroughsecretspodcast #hardstyle #strongfirst #hardstylemethodFind Free Resources at www.kettlebell.works Liked the show? Please lease us a review!
Krishna cautions Arjun (2.60) that turbulent indriyas (senses) are capable of forcibly carrying away the mind of even an aspiring wise person. This verse is about the automaticity of indriyas to stimulus. The best example is of a smoker who's quite aware of the pitfalls of smoking, but finds it extremely difficult to quit it and laments that by the time he or she realises, the cigarette is already lit. Anyone who is involved in road rage or a crime vouches that it happened in the heat of the moment and not consciously. The same is the case with someone who speaks harsh words at the workplace or in the family and keeps regretting them as they weren't intended in the first place. These instances imply that indriyas take over us and bond us in karma bandhan (bondage). During our formative years, free neurons in the brain form connections called hardwiring to take care of automatic activities like walking as it saves a lot of energy of the brain. The same is the case with skills and habits which we acquire during the latter part of life. We expend a lot of energy in this process and thus hardwiring, which is otherwise essential, becomes so powerful that it's extremely difficult to overcome habits based on hardwiring. Neuroscience says that hardwiring is impossible to break except by making a new one or overriding the existing one. Krishna is referring to this phenomenon when he says that the indriyas are so powerful that they can forcibly take away the mind of even a wise person. Krishna says (2.61) that one should surrender to the almighty which is a higher form of existence or power to overcome the automaticity of indriyas. The key is not to fight but surrender with awareness, which is the source of required strength.
Today we welcome back a great friend of the podcast John Bargh Professor of social psychology at Yale University I always really enjoy my time with John and the opportunity to pick the brains of one of the most influential minds in psychology today. John’s book ‘Before you know it’ is essential reading. In which he goes into so many fascinating avenues to explore how our unconscious mind navigates the world. How we are so much influenced by our surroundings. How we can be triggered into action by other people How words written in our office can affect our motivations. To become better acquainted with your unconscious mind is to be better armed with the challenges of life We look into ways that you can better arrange your world How you can increase your motivation to do what YOU want to do with your life Not to be just carried away with the whims and wishes of your unconscious programmes We talk about John’s biggest influences in his long and distinguished career The effect of lockdown on our mental well being What the future may hold for us post covid A really interesting session with a fascinating man John A. Bargh is a social psychologist currently working at Yale where he has formed the Automaticity in Cognition, Motivation, and Evaluation (ACME) Laboratory. John’s work focuses on automaticity and unconscious processing as a method to better understand social behaviour as well as philosophical topics such as free will. Much of John’s work investigates whether actions and behaviours thought to be under volitional control may result from automatic interpretations of and reactions to external stimuli, such as words. Do you want to understand the BENEFITS of Mindfulness What it can do for YOUR game To become a Certified Mind Factor Mindfulness Practitioner go to https://themindfactor.net/brand-new-product-release-mindfulness-program-online-video-course/
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://playsmarttennis.com/2019/02/09/tennis-is-a-mind-game-number-two-pillar-of-the-pst-training-concept-mind-and-body-connection-in-tennis/
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” ~Abraham Lincoln Today’s Mind Bullet explores the famous Abraham Lincoln quote above, and like many of our mind bullets, we'll tackle it from a few different angles. In The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, the late, great Stephen Covey uses the above quote as part of the 7th habit, “Sharpen the Saw.” Sharpening the saw, (or axe), is about refreshing ourselves and making ourselves better. (Check out our Automaticity and Learning episodes for more on this idea.) Learning, working out, and taking care of ourselves are examples of sharpening the saw. Anything we do to better ourselves improves our efficiency and our effectiveness. When you devote time to your energy, your energy gives you back time. Effectiveness is doing the right things. Efficiency is doing them correctly. Little point in being efficient if we aren’t first effective. Listen in for more on sharpening the axe and saw to make yourself more efficient and effective. Enjoy the episode! How are you going to improve your results in 2021? NOW ON-DEMAND! Visit: https://thehabitfactor.com/challenge *** New listeners: By texting the word "HABITS" to the mobile phone number "33444" you will instantly receive your "hack"/habit tracker/habit development template, or you can download it here: thehabitfactor.com/templates. Feel free to share the episode and leave a review on iTunes! Recommended in this episode-->> Grab your FREE copy of As a Man Thinketh (PDF) right here: As a Man Thinketh ***** Subscribe iTunes here! Subscribe: Android | RSS ***** TOOLS/BOOKS WE RECOMMEND: Bucket List PRO (iOS app) iTunes Grab your FREE copy of As a Man Thinketh (PDF) right here: As a Man Thinketh The 3 C's of SucCcess (Mitch W. Steel) The Psychology of Achievement (Brian Tracy) The Power of Positive Thinking (Norman Vincent Peale) The Magic of Thinking BIG! (David Schwartz) Think & Grow Rich (Napoleon Hill) The Success Principles (Jack Canfield) Getting Things Done! (Allen's Great Book!) TRELLO! **HABIT FACTOR RESOURCES!!** The New HabitXP Planner! (FREE! The Habit Factor's Tracking Template) The Habit Factor® (website: BLOG, tips, tools, and other resources) The Habit Factor® Book (Amazon Kindle) The Pressure Paradox® Book (Amazon Kindle) The Habit Factor app (iOS, Android) The Pressure Paradox™ **WEBINARS** Get Unstuck Course Habit Mastery: (FREE) Learn the process to Master Habit, Enhance Discipline and Strengthen Willpower: The 28 Day Breakthrough!
“Everything is difficult before it is easy.” ~Goethe It may be a big word, but automaticity is what we're looking for on the path to goal achievement, and it's why we practice (for more, check out our Practice episode). Automaticity is the process of turning the "difficult" into the "easy," and it's what guides our ideas about habit formation and HabitStrength. Think about tying your shoes—a task so difficult and frustrating when we're trying to learn, but which becomes so easy we're barely even conscious when we do it. Automaticity is the underlying strength of habit and skill. When we develop automaticity of the habits that truly matter, we re-wire our brains to put these behaviors on auto-pilot. Listen in for more on programming your brain via automaticity as you intentionally align your habits and behaviors with your goals. Enjoy the episode! How are you going to improve your results in 2021? NOW ON-DEMAND! Visit: https://thehabitfactor.com/challenge *** New listeners: By texting the word "HABITS" to the mobile phone number "33444" you will instantly receive your "hack"/habit tracker/habit development template, or you can download it here: thehabitfactor.com/templates. Feel free to share the episode and leave a review on iTunes! Recommended in this episode-->> Grab your FREE copy of As a Man Thinketh (PDF) right here: As a Man Thinketh ***** Subscribe iTunes here! Subscribe: Android | RSS ***** TOOLS/BOOKS WE RECOMMEND: Bucket List PRO (iOS app) iTunes Grab your FREE copy of As a Man Thinketh (PDF) right here: As a Man Thinketh The 3 C's of SucCcess (Mitch W. Steel) The Psychology of Achievement (Brian Tracy) The Power of Positive Thinking (Norman Vincent Peale) The Magic of Thinking BIG! (David Schwartz) Think & Grow Rich (Napoleon Hill) The Success Principles (Jack Canfield) Getting Things Done! (Allen's Great Book!) TRELLO! **HABIT FACTOR RESOURCES!!** The New HabitXP Planner! (FREE! The Habit Factor's Tracking Template) The Habit Factor® (website: BLOG, tips, tools, and other resources) The Habit Factor® Book (Amazon Kindle) The Pressure Paradox® Book (Amazon Kindle) The Habit Factor app (iOS, Android) The Pressure Paradox™ **WEBINARS** Get Unstuck Course Habit Mastery: (FREE) Learn the process to Master Habit, Enhance Discipline and Strengthen Willpower: The 28 Day Breakthrough!
Bright Line Living™ - The Official Bright Line Eating Podcast
Right now, I'm in a cabin in the middle of nowhere in upstate New York on a writer's retreat where I'm putting the finishing touches on the manuscript for the third Bright Line Eating book, Rezoom. While I've been secluded … The post Automaticity and Self-Care appeared first on Bright Line Eating®.
What activity could you do EVERY DAY (on autopilot) that would change your life?
Revisiting the concept of “automaticity”. Does it still have relevance to understanding skilled performance? Should the goal of training really be to get a performer to a stage where they are doing things automatically? Or, is it time to retire this idea to the legends section of the motor learning hall of fame? Articles: Movement Automaticity in Sport Beyond Automaticity: The Psychological Complexity of Skill Exploring the Orthogonal Relationship between Controlled and Automated Processes in Skilled Action More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc) Subscribe in iOS/Apple Subscribe in Anroid/Google Support the podcast and receive bonus content Credits: The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com
Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.10.25.354282v1?rss=1 Authors: Lemke, S. M., Ramanathan, D. S., Darevsky, D., Egert, D. G., Berke, J., Ganguly, K. Abstract: Plasticity within the corticostriatal network is known to regulate the balance between behavioral flexibility and automaticity. Repeated training of an action has been shown to bias behavior towards automaticity, suggesting that training may trigger activity-dependent corticostriatal plasticity. However, surprisingly little is known about the natural activity patterns that may drive plasticity or when they occur during long-term training. Here we chronically monitored neural activity from primary motor cortex (M1) and the dorsolateral striatum (DLS) during both training and offline periods, i.e., time away from training including sleep, throughout the development of an automatic reaching action. We first show that blocking striatal NMDA receptors during offline periods prevents the emergence of behavioral consistency, a hallmark of automaticity. We then show that, throughout the development of an automatic reaching action, corticostriatal functional connectivity increases during offline periods. Such increases track the emergence of consistent behavior and predictable cross-area neural dynamics. We then identify sleep spindles during non-REM sleep (NREM) as uniquely poised to mediate corticostriatal plasticity during offline periods. We show that sleep spindles are periods of maximal corticostriatal transmission within offline periods, that sleep spindles in post-training NREM reactivate neurons across areas, and that sleep-spindle modulation in post-training NREM is linked to observable changes in spiking relationships between individual pairs of M1 and DLS neurons. Our results indicate that offline periods, in general, and sleep spindles, specifically, play an important role in regulating behavioral flexibility through corticostriatal network plasticity. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info
Today’s we’ll be speaking with Terrie Noland about the importance of teaching Reading Skills Phonemes and Phonemic Awareness.Terrie’s greatest strengths lie in the ability to motivate, inspire, and create enthusiasm in others to be passionate educators that support the diverse needs of students. Terrie serves as the Vice-President of Educator Initiatives for Learning Ally where she works to develop engagement programs, professional learning services and communities for educators. Her passion is working with educators to create dynamic classrooms and recognizing educators in their tremendous efforts. She has more than 25 years of experience as both a motivational leader and developer of content for educators and administrators. Terrie’s focus for the past six years has been on the pedagogical practices needed to create effective environments for struggling readers and students with dyslexia. She has the opportunity to lead and facilitate groups numbering in the thousands helping to build better understanding of working with struggling readers and students with dyslexia. Terrie is certified as an Academic Language Practitioner and is currently working towards a Ph.D. in Literacy, with an emphasis in Educational Leadership from St. John’s University.This show is sponsored in part by: Learning Ally: www.learningally.org Impact Dyslexia: www.Impactdyslexia.org 3 Dudes Design: https://3dudesdesign.com/Learning Ally Demohttps://learningally.org/Solutions-for-School/Schedule-DemoTexas Education Association Partnershiphttps://learningally.org/Solutions-for-School/school-grants/Texas Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/Empowerdyslexia)
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If you've followed my teaching for any amount of time, you're probably familiar with the psychological term "automaticity." Automaticity is ability to perform tasks without involving the mind. This phenomenon is both a blessing and a curse. While one of my Productivity Hacks is putting low-level activities into automaticity (habitual behavior), this is the BANE of the true Leader when it comes to "thinking."...
Ännu ett avsnitt av Späkbrättet som är fullt av en massa skojigheter. Flemming vill gärna tala allvar och öppnar därför en diskussion om vetenskapliga tidsskrifters för- och nackdelar. Robin har intervjuat en riktigt vetenskapskvinna som berättade lite om hemligheten bakom jordgubbar som allergikerna kan äta. Till allra sist bjuder Mark på forskning om hjärntvättning! Och oj vad det är spännande!Håller tummarna för att Mark kan skriva om detta sen. Tak for det, Robin.Køb vores merch! bit.ly/spækshopGiv os fem stjerner på iTunes! bit.ly/spækitunesSend os water hilarious science eller stil et spørgsmål på facebook, twitter eller spaekbraettet@gmail.comKilder:Bargh, Chen, and Burrows (1996) Automaticity of Social Behavior: Direct Effects of Trait Construct and Stereotype Activation on ActionHjernø et al. (2006) Down-regulation of the strawberry Bet v 1-homologous allergen in concert with the flavonoid biosynthesis pathway in colorless strawberry mutant.xeSupport the show (https://spaekbraettet.10er.app/)
Piano Parent Podcast: helping teachers, parents, and students get the most of their piano lessons.
Doing new things can be challenging for all of us. Piano students are asked to do new things constantly. Once they master one concept, another is given to them without pause. Faced with something new, in this case a new musical concept to master or a new song to play, students have to exert a lot of conscious effort. They have to intentionally think about what they want their hands to do. That is hard work! Piano kids will often resist and not even try because they don’t feel they will be successful. Rather than try and fail, they choose to give up. They feel like the music is too hard. Parents can help their kids look at music and their abilities differently. It’s not too hard; it’s too new. As students practice and put in multiple, slow repetitions, their hands and muscles “learn” how to do the movement and play the notes and rhythm patterns. The effort becomes less mental and more automatic. Automaticity definition: The condition of being automatic. The ability to do things without occupying the mind with the low level details required. (i.e. tying your shoes, driving a car [highway hypnosis], multiplication facts) Listen to the full episode here Isolate the Problem This is a lot of what takes place during the piano lesson Teachers know common problems with the songs they assign Teachers have a plan to help students overcome those problems Follow your teacher’s advice and plan If you’re working on something independently, make note of these things Passages where you make mistakes Places where you have to slow down a lot to process all the information Break it Down Focus on one specific task One hand at a time One measure or small group of notes Practice the maneuver before you go to the piano Clap rhythm pattern and count Get a “feel” for the rhythm first Apply that feel to the music as you play Captain Hook’s Rockin’ Party in Piano Adventures 2B Repeat, Repeat, Repeat Get to the piano Spending short amounts of time at the piano on multiple days is far better than spending a long period of time on one day. These past episodes offer more tips for regular practice Build Practice Habits Establishing Good Practice Habits Let’s Talk About Practice - This One’s for the Piano Kids Put in the reps Slow, intentional playing Not fast, mindless repetition Final thoughts When you first attempt something new you will rely heavily on the mental aspects and the physical elements will be sluggish (More brain/less body). The new concept is external. As you study and practice and put in lots of repetitions, the activity becomes more internal and you’re able to do the task with less thought and more ease of movement with the physical. (Less brain/more body). Eventually, and if you repeat the activity enough, it becomes automatic and you can perform the activity with like focused thought at all. Congratulations, you’ve achieved automaticity! Thanks for listening! To share your thoughts: Leave a note in the comment section below Ask a question at pianoparentpodcast@gmail.com Share this show on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest To help out the show: leave an honest review on iTunes. Your ratings and reviews help other piano parents and teachers find the show. Subscribe on Spotify, iTunes, Podbean, or your favorite podcast player.
Intelligence Unshackled: a show for people with brains (a Brainjo Production)
Why is it that, in spite of our brain's ability to change itself throughout our lives, behavior change is rare? Learn more about the "Learn to Uke" Brain Fitness Challenge at elitecognition.com/fitness Learn more about the Brainjo Center for Neurology & Cognitive Enhancement at elitecognition.com. Click here to review the key points, and view the links and transcript from this episode.
Bill Maurer opened the panel highlighting three recent trends in finance: The shift of investment from traditional markets to non-market based financial arrangements championed by the rise of philanthropic venture capital pushing into all kinds of new areas that were traditionally not expected to yield a return; the remodeling or reorganization of financial infrastructures: payments, clearing services, trading platforms, supply chain management and so on; and the new quality of automaticity enabled by smart contracts, potentially creating tradable shares of everyday objects. What would it mean to engage critically with such developments? Maurer suggested to think about choking points: Where are these processes fragile? Is there a way to 'unplug' finance by politicizing its strategic dependence on energy grids?
Bill Maurer opened the panel highlighting three recent trends in finance: The shift of investment from traditional markets to non-market based financial arrangements championed by the rise of philanthropic venture capital pushing into all kinds of new areas that were traditionally not expected to yield a return; the remodeling or reorganization of financial infrastructures: payments, clearing services, trading platforms, supply chain management and so on; and the new quality of automaticity enabled by smart contracts, potentially creating tradable shares of everyday objects. What would it mean to engage critically with such developments? Maurer suggested to think about choking points: Where are these processes fragile? Is there a way to 'unplug' finance by politicizing its strategic dependence on energy grids?
Bill Maurer opened the panel highlighting three recent trends in finance: The shift of investment from traditional markets to non-market based financial arrangements championed by the rise of philanthropic venture capital pushing into all kinds of new areas that were traditionally not expected to yield a return; the remodeling or reorganization of financial infrastructures: payments, clearing services, trading platforms, supply chain management and so on; and the new quality of automaticity enabled by smart contracts, potentially creating tradable shares of everyday objects. What would it mean to engage critically with such developments? Maurer suggested to think about choking points: Where are these processes fragile? Is there a way to 'unplug' finance by politicizing its strategic dependence on energy grids?
Paul Wang: Welcome to the monthly podcast On The Beat for Circulation, Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology. I'm Dr. Paul Wang, editor-in-chief, with some of the key highlights from this month's issue. We'll also hear from Dr. Suraj Kapa, reporting on new research from the latest journals in the field. In our first article, Elyar Ghafoori and associates examined the ability of late gadolinium enhancement MRI done immediately after ablation to predict edema and chronically even size. In a canine model, the authors created ventricular radiofrequency ablation lesions. All animals underwent MRI immediately after ablation. After one, two, four and eight weeks, edema and microvascular obstruction MVO, in enhanced volumes were identified in MRI. Immediately after contrast administration, the microvascular obstruction region was 3.2 times larger than the chronic lesion volume size in acute MRI. The authors found that microvascular obstruction region on acute late gadolinium enhancement images acquired 26 minutes after contrast administration most accurately predicts chronic lesion volume. In the next article, Elad Anter and associates characterized the atrial substrate in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation and obstructive sleep apnea. The authors examined 86 patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, 43 with moderate obstructive sleep apnea and 43 without obstructive sleep apnea. The right atrial and left atrial voltage distribution conduction velocities in electrogram characteristics were examined. The authors found that patients with obstructive sleep apnea had lower atrial voltage amplitude, slower conduction velocities, and higher prevalence of electrogram fractionation. Most commonly, the left atrial septum was an area of atrial abnormality while at baseline the pulmonary veins with the most frequent triggers for atrial fibrillation in both groups after pulmonary vein isolation in patients with obstructive sleep apnea had an increased incidence of extrapulmonary vein triggers, 41.8% versus 11.6%, p=0.003. The one year arrhythmia-free survival are similar between patients with and without obstructive sleep apnea, 83.7% and 81.4%, respectively. In comparison, control patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation and obstructive sleep apnea who underwent pulmonary vein isolation alone without ablation of extrapulmonary vein triggers had an increased risk of arrhythmia recurrence, 83.7% versus 64.0%, p=0.03, suggesting that ablation of these triggers resulted in improved arrhythmia-free survival. A randomized trial would be needed to prove this relationship. In the next article, Iolanda Feola and associates demonstrated that optogenetics may be used to induce and locally target a rotor in atrial monolayers. The authors used neonatal rat atrial cardiomyocyte monolayers expressing a depolarizing light-gated ion channel, calcium-translocating channelrhodopsin. These monolayers were subjected to patterned illumination to induce the single, stable, and centralized rotor by optical S1-S2 cross-field stimulation. Next, the core region of these rotors was specifically and precisely targeted by light to induce local conduction blocks of circular or linear shapes. Conduction blocks crossing the core region, but not reaching an unexcitable boundary, did not lead to termination. Instead, electrical waves started to propagate along the circumference of block. If, however, core-spanning lines of block reached at least one unexcitable boundary, reentrant activity was consistently terminated by wave collision, suggesting that this may be a key mechanism for rotor elimination. In our next study, Adam Barnett and associates used data from the outcomes registry for better informed treatment of atrial fibrillation ORBIT-AF to determine how frequently patients receive care that was concordant with 11 recommendations of the 2014 AHA, ACC, HRS A-fib guidelines pertaining to antithrombotic therapy rate control in anti-arrhythmic medications. The authors also analyzed the association between guideline concordant care and clinical outcomes at both the patient's level and center level. The authors study 9,570 patients with the median A 275, median CHA2DS2-VASc score of 4. A total of 62.5% or 5,5977 patients received care that was concordant with all guideline recommendations for which they were eligible. Rates of guideline concordant care was higher in patients treated with providers, with greater specialization in arrhythmias; 60.0%, 62.4%, 67.0% for primary care physicians, cardiologists and electrophysiologist, respectively; p less than 0.001. During a median of 30 months of follow up, patients treated with guideline concordant care had a higher risk of bleeding hospitalization; hazard ratio, 1.21. Similar risk of death, stroke, major bleeding can all cause hospitalization. In our next article, Hui-Chen Han and associates conducted electronic search of PubMed and Embase for English scientific literature articles to characterize the clinical presentation, procedural characteristics, diagnostic investigations and treatment outcomes of all reported cases of atrioesophageal fistula. Out of 588 references, 120 cases of atrioesophageal fistula were identified. Clinical presentation occurred between 0 and 60 days postablation with a median of 21 days. The most common presentations were fever 73%, neurological 72%, gastrointestinal 41%, and cardiac 40% symptoms. Computed tomography of the chest was the commonest mode of diagnosis, 68% although six cases required repeat testing. Overall mortality was 55%. In conclusion, the authors reported that atrioesophageal fistula complicating atrial fibrillation is associated with a very high mortality 55% with significantly reduced mortality in patients undergoing surgical repair 33% compared to endoscopic treatment 65%, and conservative management 97%. Odds ratio adjusted 24.9; p less than 0.01 compared to surgery. Neurological symptoms adjusted odd ratio 16.0. In GI bleed, adjusted odds ratio 4.2, were the best predictors of mortality. In the next article, Wei Ma and associates reported that the site origin of left posterior fascicular ventricular tachycardia may be predicted using 12-lead EC morphology in the HIS-ventricular or H-V interval. The authors studied 41 patients who underwent successful catheter ablation of left posterior fascicular ventricular tachycardia. The location of the site of origin was separated into proximal, middle, and distal groups with H-V being greater than zero milliseconds in the proximal group, H-V zero to minus 15 milliseconds in the middle group, and H-V less than negative 15 milliseconds in the distal group. The earliest presystolic potential ratio that is PP-QRS interval during VT divided by the H-V interval during sinus rhythm was statistically significantly different between the three groups, 0.59, 0.45 and 0.31, respectively. In addition, the QRS ratio in the proximal group 114 milliseconds was significant nearer compared to the middle group 128 milliseconds and the distal group 140 milliseconds. The QRS duration in the ratio R to S in leads V6 and lead-1 could predict a proximal or distal origin of left posterior fascicular ventricular tachycardia with high sensitivity and specificity. In our next article, Niv Ad and associates examined the safety and success of on-pump minimally invasive stand-alone Cox-Maze 3/4 procedure via right mini-thoracotomy in 133 patients with nonparoxysmal atrial fibrillation five years after surgery. The mean follow-up was 65 months in a patient population with a mean age of 57.3 years, mean left atrial size of 4.9 centimeters, mean AF duration of 51 months and 78% with longstanding persistent atrial fibrillation. All procedures were performed with no conversion to mid-sternotomy. No renal failure, strokes or operative mortality in less than 30 days. They reported a TIA in one patient, re-operation for bleeding in two patients, and median length of stay in four days. At five years, 73% of patients were in sinus rhythm off anti-arrhythmic drugs following a single intervention. In the next article, Richard Soto-Becerra and associates reported that unipolar endocardial electro-anatomic mapping may be used to identify scar epicardially in chagasic cardiomyopathy. In 19 sick patients, a total of 8,494 epicardial and 6,331 endocardial voltage signals in 314 epicardial and endocardial match pairs of points were analyzed. Basolateral left ventricular scar involvement was observed in 18 out of 19 patients. Bipolar epicardial and endocardial voltages within scar were low, 0.4 and 0.54 millivolts, respectively in confluent indicating a dense transmural scarring process. The endocardial unipolar voltage value with the newly proposed less than of equal to four-millivolt cutoff predicted the presence and extent of epicardial bipolar scar, p less than 0.001. In our next article, Bing Yang and associates reported the results of the stable SR study, which is a multicenter clinical trial of 229 symptomatic nonparoxysmal atrial fibrillation patients random-eyed one-to-one to two ablation strategies. In the stable SR group following pulmonary vein isolation, cavotricuspid isthmus ablation in conversion to sinus rhythm left atrial high density mapping was performed. Areas of low voltage and complex electrogram were further homogenized and eliminated, respectively. Dechanneling was done if necessary. In the step-wise group, additional linear lesions and defragmentation were performed. The primary endpoint was freedom of documented atrial tachyarrhythmias lasting 30 seconds or more after a single ablation procedure without anti-arrhythmic medications at 18 months. At 18 months, success according to intention-to-treat analysis was similar in the two arms with 74.0 success in the stable SR group and 71.5% success in the step-wise group; p=0.3. However, shorter procedure time reduced fluoroscopic time after pulmonary vein isolation and shorter energy delivery time were observed in the stable SR group compared to the step-wise group. In the final paper, Alan Sugrue and associates studied the performance of a morphological T-wave analysis program in defining breakthrough long QT syndrome arrhythmic risk beyond the QTc value. The author studied 246 genetically confirmed LQT1 patients and 161 LQT2 patients with a mean follow-up of 6.4 years. A total of 23 patients experienced more than one breakthrough cardiac arrhythmic event with 5 and 10-year event rates of 4% and 7%. Two independent predictors of future long Qt syndrome-associated cardiac events were identified from the surface ECG using a proprietary novel T-wave analysis program. The authors found that the most predictive features included the left slope of T-wave in V6, hazard ratio of 0.40, and T-wave center of gravity X-axis in lead-1, hazard ratio 1.9, C statistic of 0.77. When added to QTc, discrimination improved from 0.68 for QTc alone to 0.78. Genotype analysis showed weaker association between these T-wave variables in LQT1 triggered events while these features were stronger in patients with LQT2 and significantly outperformed the QTc interval. That's it for this month, but keep listening. Suraj Kapa will be surveying all journals for the latest topics of interest in our field. Remember to download the podcast On the Beat. Take it away, Suraj. Suraj Kapa: Thank you, Paul. This month, we will again focus on hard-hitting articles from across the electrophysiological literature. I am Suraj Kapa and we're particularly focusing on articles published in October 2017. The first article we will focus on is within the realm of atrial fibrillation specifically related to anticoagulation. In Journal of the American Heart Association in Volume 6, Issue 10, Lin, et al. sought to develop a prediction model for time in therapeutic range in older adults taking vitamin K antagonists. As we know, time in therapeutic range is critical for management of patients on vitamin K antagonists. As poor time in therapeutic range either due to subtherapeutic or supratherapeutic INRs, can lead to increased bleeding or thromboembolic risk. While novel oral anticoagulants have improved care of patients requiring anticoagulation, many patients either due to cost or due to other factors are unable to take the novel oral anticoagulants and thus must be maintained on vitamin K antagonists. In this study, Lin, et al. Used well-over 2,500 patients to create training and validation sets and thereby create two models for estimating time in therapeutic range. Through this, they created a simple model term PROSPER consisting of seven variables including pneumonia, renal dysfunction, prior bleeding, hospital stay more than seven days, pain medication use, lack of access to structured anticoagulation services, and treatment with antibiotics. Using this, they showed that they can predict time in therapeutic range greater than 70% as well as thromboembolic and bleeding outcomes better than other existing time in therapeutic range scoring systems, such as the same TT2R2 score. The reason these scores are important are both to help patients understand when they may be at risk for not maintaining a time in therapeutic range and to assist them in identification of the right anticoagulant methodology or strategy. Also, perhaps to prospectively consider if we can identify patients who may require more intensive monitoring or structured therapy strategies. However, one must also consider that for scores like this, utilization is always critical. In other words, continuous validation of the scoring system must be done in order to make sure it's applicable across populations and across different groups of people in different communities. Next, within the realm of anticoagulation and atrial fibrillation, we'll review the article by Chang, et al. published in JAMA in Volume 318, Issue 13 entitled Association Between Use of Non-Vitamin K Oral Anticoagulants With and Without Concurrent Medications and Risk of Major Bleeding Non-Valvular Atrial Fibrillation. With any new drug that comes out, there's always the possibility of various medication interactions. The source of these medication interactions might be variable. They might include direct effects of other medications on systems by which the primary drug is metabolized. Also, might be due to synergistic effects of medications that might be unpredictable or effects on different aspects of systems the drugs are trying to treat. Thus oftentimes, larger population studies are required before one can appreciate drug interactions that might exist. This is particularly true with novel oral anticoagulant drugs. Part of the promise of the novel oral anticoagulants was that because of the extensive medication interactions associating vitamin K antagonists, the availability of the drug perhaps with fewer medication interactions resulting in alteration and bleeding or thromboembolic tendency will be very important. In this important paper, Chang, et al. reviewed the effect of other medications on major bleeding events in patients on non-vitamin K oral anticoagulants such as dabigatran, apixaban, and rivaroxaban. Amongst over 91,000 patients, they noted that the concurrent use of amiodarone, fluconazole, rifampin, and phenytoin compared with the novel oral anticoagulant alone was associated with a significant increase many times by odds ratio of 100 in risk of major bleeding. Several drugs including atorvastatin, digoxin, erythromycin or clarithromycin when used concurrently with NOACs interestingly were associated with the reduced risk of bleeding without elevating thromboembolic risk. The recent advent of NOACs in clinical use especially in patients who might be taking other medications always need to be considered in the context of how the other medications might affect the bleeding or thromboembolic risk. One of the key findings in this publication is the potential interaction with amiodarone and how concurrent use of amiodarone may increase the risk of major bleeding. Because of the general lack of tools to monitor the effects of NOACs on bleeding risk in patients, one needs to consider these population studies and whether or not there might be synergistic effects between medications going forward. Unfortunately, we cannot adopt guidelines purely based on this data as to whether or not a dose adjustment should occur or whether or not the medication can be used at all. However, it does highlight the care that should be taken when using many of these drugs in conjunction with NOACs. Finally within the realm of anticoagulation and atrial fibrillation, we'll review the article by Cannon, et al. in The New England Journal of Medicine entitled Dual Antithrombotic Therapy with the Dabigatran After PCI in Atrial Fibrillation. In this study, Cannon, et al. sought to systematically review the role of a warfarin strategy post-PCI versus dabigatran strategy post-PCI. They randomized patients to use of a combination of warfarin, aspirin, and a P2Y12 inhibitors such as clopidogrel post-PCI versus using dabigatran plus a P2Y12 inhibitor. They demonstrated that dual therapy approach with dabigatran resulted in significantly lower bleeding events than the triple antithrombotic/antiplatelet therapy group. There was no difference in adverse events including thromboembolism, unplanned revascularization or death between the groups. These findings were irrespective of whether patients were on 110 mg of dabigatran or 150 mg of dabigatran. These findings suggest that a dual therapy approach in the post-PCI setting with the NOACs as the dabigatran and the P2Y12 inhibitors such as clopidogrel lowers bleeding risk without increasing risk of major adverse events including thromboembolism or stent thrombosis after PCI. However, it should be noted that one major criticisms of this trial is that the incremental bleeding risk conferred by aspirin could not be accounted for in the triple therapy cohort as aspirin was not used in the dual therapy cohorts. Thus, one cannot necessarily say whether the same finding would have been noted in a warfarin plus P2Y12 inhibitor versus dabigatran plus P2Y12 inhibitor especially given recent evidence suggesting no incremental benefit of aspirin particularly for thromboembolic risk associated with atrial fibrillation. However, the critical element of these findings is that a strategy excluding aspirin where dabigatran plus the P2Y12 inhibitor are used post-PCI might be actually safe. Changing gears, we will next focus on an article within the realm of cardiac mapping and ablation in atrial fibrillation. This was published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology in Volume 70, Issue 16 by Prabhu, et al. entitled Catheter Ablation Versus Medical Rate Control in Atrial Fibrillation and Systolic Dysfunction: The CAMERA-MRI Study. In this study, Prabhu, et al. studied in the multicenter randomized clinical trial the effect of catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation in the setting of left ventricular systolic dysfunction versus medical rate control. They looked at the change in ejection fraction over a follow-up of six months. A total of 68 patients were randomized in the study. They demonstrated an absolute improvement in EF by 18% in the ablation group versus 4% in the rate control group, with also a greater rate of EF normalization with ablation. In fact, over 50% of patients had EF normalization after ablation whereas only about 9% had a good medical rate control. Furthermore, the improvements in EF correlated with the absence of late gadolinium enhancement on MRI and in the medical rate control group an average heart rate less than 90 beats per minute was achieved across the population randomized this approach. These findings are somewhat contrary to other studies that suggested that a rate versus a rhythm control approach were not really much different in patients with reduced left ventricular systolic function. These challenges are paradigm by suggesting that in fact successful restoration of normal rhythm in patients postablation can actually confer improvement in ejection fraction in some patients even when rate controlled. The success rates that should be noted in this study were similar to those published in most existing literature with about 56% of patients without further atrial fibrillation after a single ablation off medications and a success rate of 75% after a single ablation on medications. While the number of patients included are small and thus may be difficult to challenge the paradigm that was created, the rate versus rhythm control are equivalent in patients with reduced systolic function. This finding should raise awareness that it is quite possible that there might actually be benefits in restoring normal rhythm by modern approaches in patients with reduced systolic function. Moving on, still within the realm of atrial fibrillation, however, we'll next review the article by Aronsson, et al. in Europace Volume 19, Issue 10 entitled Designing an Optimal Screening Program for Unknown Atrial Fibrillation: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis. More and more with an understanding that atrial fibrillation is essentially of epidemic proportions, but many patients tend to be asymptomatic and yet having an elevated stroke risk. People are focusing on how do we screen these populations in a manner that is both cost-effective as well as strategic. Aronsson, et al. tried to use computer simulation modeling to determine what the optimal age was to initiate screening for atrial fibrillation. They ran more than two billion different design screening programs that could be implemented at different age ranges and using data from published scientific literature. They tested these various screening programs. They demonstrated that the screening starting at the age of 75 was associated with the relatively low cost per gained quality adjusted life year. The overall cost at this level was 4,800 euros across the population for quality adjusted life year gained across that population. The relevance of this publication while simulation model lies in highlighting the importance of considering what programs can we actually achieve in the modern day to better identify patients with atrial fibrillation who are not yet identified. Across the literature and in recent clinical meetings, there's a number of articles that are being published regarding the role of different strategies in identifying the asymptomatic, not yet diagnosed atrial fibrillation patients. This study presents an initial foray into systematizing programs that might be applied to recognition of these patients. Along a similar course, we'll also review an article by Reiffel, et al. in JAMA Cardiology Volume 2, Issue 10 entitled Incidence of Previously Undiagnosed Atrial Fibrillation using Insertable Cardiac Monitors in a High-Risk Population: The REVEAL AF Study. In this study, Reiffel, et al. Reviewed the incidence of atrial fibrillation identified using implantable loop recorders in those with a high risk of stroke nearly a CHADS2 score of 3 or greater, but had not been previously diagnosed. It should be noted that while these patients have never been diagnosed with atrial fibrillation, 90% had nonspecific symptoms such as fatigue, dyspnea or palpitations, then theory could be attributed to atrial fibrillation. A total of 385 patients received monitors. They noted that by 30 months of monitoring, about 40% of patients have been identified as having atrial fibrillation that had not been diagnosed. If patients were only monitored for the first 30 days, however, the incident rate of atrial fibrillation in terms of new diagnosis was only 6%. In fact, the median time from device insertion to first episode of atrial fibrillation was almost four months at about 123 days. In line with the previous discussed study by Arosson, et al., this study notes the importance of consideration of how we monitor patients at risk for stroke. The issue at hand is when we do screening, what is enough. The strategies used to identify atrial fibrillation of patients raised from advising on twice daily poll checks, which when done by the patient regularly might allow for identification of atrial fibrillation if they do it well to doing a single ECG, to doing a 24-hour Holter, to doing a 30-day monitor, to doing things like implantable loop recorders. However, this study by Reiffel, et al. suggests the a 30-day continuous monitor is truly insufficient if there is a high concern for atrial fibrillation. Thus with the goals to identify atrial fibrillation on high-risk patients or whether a significant clinical suspicion, one should always consider longer term monitoring by this study. Finally, within the realm of atrial fibrillation, we'll review the article by Tilz, et al. published in Europace Volume 19, Issue 10 on left atrial appendage occluder implantation in Europe, indications anticoagulation post-implantation, results of the European Heart Rhythm Association survey. Currently, there's a high level of utilization of left atrial appendage occlusion for patients with atrial fibrillation who cannot otherwise be on a novel oral anticoagulants in Europe. Tilz, et al. performed a survey of providers performing these procedures. They found that about 52% of those centers performing left atrial appendage occlusion had electrophysiologist performing it as opposed to the remainder using interventional cardiologists. The most common indication for implantation was in those with high risk for stroke and with absolute contraindication to oral anticoagulation or history of bleeding. However, was most interesting from their study was that there was a very wide ranging practice in management after implantation in terms of use of antiplatelets for anticoagulants with 41% prescribing no therapy after implantation. There is even greater variability in therapies for patients who are found to have a thrombus after left atrial appendage occlusion ranging from no therapy to surgery. These findings highlight the difficulty in managing practice patterns with novel technologist and in particular with left atrial appendage occlusion. The highly heterogeneous practice pattern found here suggests that large-scale population outcomes will be difficult to understand unless we understand the individual practice variation that is occurring such as considering what medications patients were prescribed on in the post-implant period or how patients were included in terms of whether or not they met the standard criteria. Furthermore, when a complication occurs such a thrombus septal left atrial appendage occlusion one might suspect that the implications of different strategies such as not doing any therapy all the way to routinely doing surgery tumor to clot should be considered. Next, we will move on to the realm of ICDs, pacemakers, and CRT. First, reviewing the article by Pokorney, et al. published in Circulation in Volume 136, Issue 15 entitled Outcomes Associated With Extraction Versus Capping and Abandoning Pacing and Defibrillator Leads. In this study, Pokorney, et al. reviewed these two different approaches in abandoned leads amongst 6,859 patients. They found that extraction was associated with the lower risk of device infection, but there was no association between difference in mortality, need for future lead revision, or need for future extraction. This involved patients in the Medicare age group, but extraction patients of note, tended to be younger with fewer comorbidities, more often female and had a shorter lead dwell time. While they're statistically different, however, the actual number of years by which patients tended to be younger or to have a shorter lead dwell time was only a year. The fact is that it is always hard to know what to do with an abandoned lead. Having more leads in the vascular system might lead to venous stenosis or might lead to patients having future problems when they need an extraction because of infection, or might make it harder to manipulate this in the vascular space. Thus whether extracting abandoned leads as opposed to just capping them and leaving there needs to be considered when taking any patient in for a lead revision or a lead addition for other reasons. These findings suggest that extraction confer similar mortality risk but lower long-term infection risk than capping them. However, it should be noted this is retrospective data set and given the extraction patients already were younger and had their leads for relatively shorter durations with your comorbidities, they might have reflected to healthier population anyway. However, these data are suggestive and highly the need for further study into whether a more aggressive approach with abandoned lead should be considered. Without randomized data, it will not be for certain. Next, also within the realm of lead extraction, we'll review the article by Bongiorni, et al. published in the European Heart Journal in Volume 38, Issue 40 entitled The European Lead Extraction Controlled Study: A European Heart Rhythm Association Registry of Transvenous Lead Extraction Outcomes. This prospect of registry on lead extraction the largest to dates, Bongiorni, et al. reviewed safety and complications in addition to relationship to the type of center. They noted that the overall hospital major complication rate was 1.7% with mortality rate of 0.5% associated with lead extraction. The most common complication was actually pericardial synthesis, need for a chest tube or need for surgical repair. Overall, success rates for lead extraction in terms of complete removal of all lead components was 97%. However, it should be noted the overall complication rate and success rates were better in high-volume centers than low-volume centers. These findings are consistent with prior data published by [Desmott 35:22] and others, suggesting that more experience associates with better outcomes in lead extraction. However, these data represent the largest prospective registry on lead extraction and confirm the safety and efficacy of overall current practices. These better data on modern lead extraction may help facilitate discussions with patients regarding actual outcomes and also decisions on whether or not extraction should be engaged in individual practices. Next, we'll review the article by Aro, et al. in the realm of sudden death cardiac arrest entitled Electrical Risk Score Beyond Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction: Prediction of Sudden Cardiac Death in the Oregon Sudden Unexpected Death Study in the Atherosclerosis Risk and Communities Study, published in the European Heart Journal in Volume 38, Issue 40. In this study, Aro, et al. reviewed what features beyond ejection fraction could predict sudden death in community cohorts. They specifically focus on the electrocardiogram and demonstrated an electrocardiogram risk score based on the presence or absence of a number of features related to heart rate, left ventricular hypertrophy, QRS transition zone, QTc, and others. They found that amongst those patients with a left ventricular ejection fraction greater than 35%, the presence of four more of these ECG abnormalities confer an odd ratio of sudden death of 26.1. The importance of this article is highlighting how more complex considerations of clinical risk might help in further adjudication of sudden death in poorly characterized cohorts. While most studies have concluded that addition of a variety of additional features such a T-wave alternans do not really confer incremental benefit beyond the ejection fraction in adjudicating sudden death risk and in helping decision making regarding ICD implantation. The fact is that more complex analyses that might exist in more nonlinear approaches or consider more advanced features, the ECG and combination, might confer some benefit in poorly characterized populations such as those with moderately reduced ejection fraction between 35 and 50. We know that while those with an ejection fraction less than 35% is a population have a higher risk within that population, the majority of patients who suddenly die do not have an EF less than 35%. Thus, identifying patients without an EF less than 35% who might be at risk is important. This study by Aro, et al. indicates one potential option to help discriminate patients who might not fit within normal categories for sudden death adjudication and did not fit neatly within the trials. However, prospect of evaluation of application of scoring systems either this one or others that may come in the future will be critical. Changing realms yet again, we'll focus on cellular electrophysiology on an article by Kofron, et al. entitled Gq-Activated Fibroblasts Induce Cardiomyocyte Action Potential Prolongation and Automaticity in a Three-Dimensional Microtissue Environment, published in The American Journal of Physiology, Heart and Circulatory Physiology in Volume 313, Issue 4. In this publication, Kofron, et al. demonstrated that in this three-dimensional microtissue model, fibroblasts cause effects on the normal action potential in the surrounding environment leading to proarrhythmogenic automaticity. This model effectively demonstrated the activation of this fibroblast alone taken out of context by other triggers such as abnormalities of innervation, et cetera, could probably contribute to arrhythmogenicity into these hearts. It is well recognized in other studies that fibroblasts don't just cause proarrhythmic effects because of myocardial disarray. In fact, they can have paracrine effects on surrounding cells. This study by Kofron, et al. further highlights those potential effects. The presence of fibroblast amidst cardiomyocytes do not cause proarrhythmic tendency purely by shift in myocardial conduction direction, but also results from the effects of fibroblast once activated on these running cardiomyocytes action potentials of cells. This study is suggesting specifically proarrhythmogenic arrhythmogenicity related to automaticity in those cardiomyocytes that are adjacent to fibroblast, highlights potential future targets for therapies and also highlights potential mechanisms by which arrhythmias might occurrence population. Changing gears, we next look at genetic channelopathies in one article within the realm of Brugada syndrome and the second article within the realm of predicting QT interval. First, Hernandez-Ojeda, et al. published an article in The Journal of the American College of Cardiology Volume 70, Issue 16 entitled Patients With Brugada Syndrome and Implanted Cardioverter-Defibrillators: Long-Term Follow-Up. Amongst the 104 patients with long-term follow-up nearly greater than nine years on average, they noted a rate of appropriate therapy was very common especially in secondary prevention patients, however, was as much as 9% in otherwise asymptomatic patients. Appropriate ICD therapies, however, especially amongst asymptomatic patients were exclusively in those spontaneous type I Brugada ECG patterns and inducible ventricular arrhythmias, or those obviously the secondary prevention devices who have prior spontaneous ventricular arrhythmias. However, what is more interesting is that more than 20% of patients had some ICD-related complication. Furthermore, the overall incidence of inappropriate shocks was 8.7%, nearly the same rate as appropriate ICD therapies in the primary prevention population. These findings highlight that there is in fact a reasonable incidence of ventricular arrhythmic events needing ICD therapy even in asymptomatic Brugada patients. However, I think the most striking finding is the high incidence of device-related complications of a follow-up, which highlights the need for considered selection and adequate device programming to avoid inappropriate ICD shocks and finally the need for regular follow-up of these relatively young patients receiving ICDs who might be more prone to complication with the long-term. Changing gears, we'll next review an article by Rosenberg, et al. published in Circulation Genetics in Volume 10, Issue 5 entitled Validation of Polygenic Scores for QT Interval in Clinical Populations. Using more extensive genomic analyses, Rosenberg, et al. used populations and real-world cohorts including 2,915 individuals of European ancestry and 366 individuals of African ancestry. They demonstrated that clinical variables could account for about 9 to 10% of variation in QTc in Europeans and 12 to 18% in African ancestry individuals. However, interestingly, polygenic scores provided incremental explanation of a QTc variation but only in individuals of European ancestry. The reason we find this article interesting is the importance of understanding how much genetics can actually tell us and how what it can tell us might vary between difference, individuals of different backgrounds thus how we apply findings from one study to any other study. In the area of genetic testing, the Holy Grail is fully identifying overall risk scores to tell the patient what they may have without having to rely on clinical studies or other clinical variables. However, we do know that there is both an environmental component as well as the genetic components. This study by Rosenberg highlights the importance of potentially considering both. The issue with the article, however, is the fact that while there was clear benefit of the polygenic score in patients of European ancestry, the African ancestry patients reflect the much smaller population almost one-eighth that of the patients included of European ancestry. Also, European versus African ancestry tend to be very broad-based terms. Whether or not there is greater polygenic variation within those of African ancestry as compared to those Europeans ancestry is relatively unclear. Thus while this study should be taken with grain of salt, it should also be considered in the context of providing a foray into seeing how polygenic scores could augment or understanding of how question intervals might vary in a population of people and might be identified immigrant patients. Moving to the realm of ventricular arrhythmias, we'll first review the article by Siontis, et al. published in Heart Rhythm Volume 14, Issue 10 entitled Association of Preprocedural Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging with Outcomes of Ventricular Tachycardia Ablation in Patients with Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy. In this study, Siontis, et al. tried to identify whether or not use of preprocedural MRI had any impact on overall procedural outcomes. They compared in a more modern practice where they are routinely obtaining cardiac MRI versus prior practice where they do not routinely obtain preprocedural MRI for ablation in patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy. They demonstrated that moderate use of preprocedural MRIs was associated with significantly greater procedural success mainly 63% in the modern approach versus 24% previously. The importance of the study why is in trying to understand what the actual value of preprocedural cardiac MRI is when patients are undergoing VT ablation particularly with non-ischemic cardiomyopathy. VT ablation outcomes are notoriously even harder to predict in non-ischemic cardiomyopathy cohorts than ischemic cardiomyopathy cohorts. Improved procedural experience, however, or different technologies may also alter long-term outcomes. Thus, because the populations were not randomized and rather retrospective with a discrete change in practice that occurred temporally and just did not vary in terms of utilization over the course of periods of time when success rates might not have been affected just by incremental procedural success is difficult. However, these data suggest that future studies into the incremental role of MRI for VT ablation are needed to determine its utility. Next, we'll review an article by Ho, et al. published in The Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology in Volume 28, Issue 10 entitled ECG Variation During Ventricular Fibrillation Than Focal Sources Due to Wavebreak, Secondary Rotors, and Meander. Ho, et al. in this publication reviewed the role of rotors and focal sources in ventricular fibrillation. They attempted VF induction of 31 patients and use the combination of surface ECG and biventricular basket catheters to create face mask. They showed there's three differences between those with ventricular fibrillation that was mediate by rotors and those with ventricular fibrillation mediated by focal sources. Specifically those with rotor-based VF had greater voltage variation, which they demonstrated zero wavebreak, secondary rotor formation and rotor meander. One of the most critical findings of this study is the fact that a one-size-fits-all approach to consideration of the mechanism of fibrillation is likely unreasonable in most patients. They discriminate between rotor-based ventricular fibrillation and focal source-based ventricular fibrillation and highlighted there are discrete features that differentiate the two populations. While this should be considered an initial foray into understanding these patients, clinical and computational size will be important into understand how we can discriminate mechanisms of complex arrhythmias between patients to help understand, which patients might most benefit from a specific ablation approach or therapeutic decision. This might also apply to atrial fibrillation where multiple mechanisms may coexist in the same patient for the pathogenesis of the arrhythmia. Finally, we'll review an animal model by Patterson, et al. published in The Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology in Volume 28, Issue 10 entitled Slow Conduction Through an Arc of Block: A Basis for Arrhythmia Formation Postmyocardial Infarction. In this study performed in the University of Oklahoma, Patterson, et al. reviewed a novel basis for arrhythmia formation after MI in an animal model. Amongst 108 anesthetized dogs, they demonstrated the delay potentials may decrement over shorter pacing cycle lengths leading to potential premature ventricular beat initiation after sufficient delay of the second potential. Thus, they demonstrated that there is a Wenckebach-like patterns of delayed activation specifically within this arc of conduction block associated with the region infarcted. These findings suggest that even across line of apparent conduction block there may be a potential for premature beat formation due to very slow conduction and thus a novel mechanism of PVC formation following myocardial infarction. Furthermore, it might highlight the mechanism by which to induce PVCs in this patient population Just because there is conduction block the region of baseline mapping further provocative maneuvers to initiate or to discriminate where there might be very slow conduction might be critical to elicit arrhythmia in some patients. Next, within the realm of syncope. We focus on article by Baron-Esquivias, et al. published in The Journal of American College of Cardiology Volume 70, Issue 14 entitled Dual-Chamber Pacing With Closed Loop Stimulation in Recurrent Reflex Vasovagal Syncope: The SPAIN Study. In this randomized double blind control study, Baron-Esquivias, et al. study the value of closed loop stimulation in the specific cohort of patients with cardio-inhibitory vasovagal syncope above 40 years of age. They demonstrated amongst 46 patients the closed loops stimulation was associated with the more than 50% reduction in syncopal spells in nearly three quarters of patients. However, it should be noted that up to 9% of patients continue to have syncope in your consistent frequency to prior. However, it should also be noted that sham cohort 46% of patients continue to have syncope while only a quarter were relieved. Syncope is one of the most challenging diagnosis to manage in electrophysiologic practice. This is both due to the heterogeneity of manifestation of syncope in terms of cause as well as the lack of many therapies that affect some of the autonomic features that mediate syncope. Largely, vasovagal syncope can be strategized into cardio-inhibitory and vasodilatory groups. Generally, pacing will be more effective in theory for those more of a cardio-inhibitory than a vasodilatory component thus certainly patients can have both and thus that might be only partial attenuation of syncopal events by fixing the cardio-inhibitory by pacing but not the vasodilatory, which often requires medications. In this study, the use of closed loops stimulation seems to offer significant benefit in the specific population with cardio-inhibitory vasovagal syncope in age greater than 40 years. However, care should be taken not to necessarily apply these findings to patients not within this age group or within this diagnosis group. Next within the realm of electrocardiography, we'll review an article by Yasin, et al. published in The Journal of Electrocardiology Volume 50, Issue 5 entitled Noninvasive Blood Potassium Measurement Using Signal-Processed, Single-Lead ECG Acquired from a Handheld Smartphone. Yasin, et al. reviewed the ability to determine changes in potassium level using the ECG. They demonstrated amongst 22 patients undergoing hemodialysis in whom estimation models could then be trained. The mean absolute error of ambulatory follow-up between the potassium estimated off of a single lead handheld smartphone-enabled ECG in the actual blood potassium was 0.38 milliequivalents per liter or a difference of 9% of the average potassium level. These findings suggest that in terms of clinical robustness a single lead smartphone-enabled handheld base ECG might be sufficient to estimate ambulatory potassium levels in patients who might be at high risk especially of hyperkalemia. The fact is that electrolytes and other abnormalities of a body homeostasis may be reflected in the ECG. However, whether the ECG may in turn be used to finally determine changes in characteristics such as electrolytes levels has not been very well described. Previous work by the same group has suggested that the 12-lead ECG may be utilized to determine find potassium changes in patients undergoing hemodialysis. These findings while in small number of patients in this particular article highlights that ambulatory technologies such as the one they used here might in fact be utilized to discriminate potassium levels in patients who might be at risk of variations of potassium levels that can sometimes be life-threatening. Further validation will be required in larger populations, but this initial foray might create a paradigm for use of the ECG in ways beyond just looking for arrhythmias. The final article we'll review is by Calzolari, et al. published in The Journal of American College of Cardiology, Clinical Electrophysiology in Volume 3, Issue 10 entitled In Vitro Validation of the Lesion Size Index to Predict Lesion Width and Depth After Irrigated Radiofrequency Ablation in a Porcine Model. In this paper published in the special of JACCEP focused on biophysics of ablation, Calzolari, et al. reviewed in vitro validation of lesion size indexing using radiofrequency ablation. Specifically, they reviewed the novel measure that incorporates not just contact force, power and time, but also impedance into predicting lesion quality. They noted that while lesion with in depth did not correlate with power or contact force alone, it did with either the lesion size indexing tool that they created and also with the force-time integral. However, the lesion size indexing where impedance was included was incrementally better than force-time integral. The truth is that improved prediction model lesion size inadequacy are critical during radiofrequency ablation. Predicting lesion formation might help physicians know whether or not they have done adequate intervention at the time of application. They demonstrated incorporating impedance along with contact force, power, and time. The predictive value of their lesion indexing approach was quite good. However, further validation in association with an outcome is necessary to look at the incremental value. It also should be noted that this lesion size indexing tool did not necessarily predict steam pop formation, which is more often associated with power. I appreciate everyone's attention to this key and hard-hitting articles that we have just focused on from this past month of cardiac electrophysiology across the literature. Thanks for listening. Now back to Paul. Paul Wang: Thanks Suraj. You did a terrific job surveying all journals for the latest articles on topics of interest in our field. There's none an easier way to stay in touch with the latest advances. These summaries and a list of major articles in our field each month could be downloaded from Circulation, Arrhythmia, Electrophysiology website. We hope you'll find the journal to be the go-to place for everyone interested in the field. See you next month.
Our GuestBen Parr is the author of the best-selling book Captivology: The Science of Capturing People’s Attention-- named the top marketing book of 2015 by Strategy+Business Magazine and Small Business Trends. He is Co-Founder and CMO of Octane AI, the CRM for Messenger marketing. He sits on the board of directors of Samasource, the global non-profit dedicated to impact sourcing and giving work and is a member of the advisory board of Lufthansa Airlines. Previously, Parr was a venture capitalist, a columnist and commentator at CNET, and Co-Editor and Editor-at-Large of Mashable. He is a member of the Forbes 30 Under 30.Here are the highlights of our conversation with our guest:Ben is passionate about two aspects: solving a complex problem which he has not solved before and creating a scalable solution to that problem. He believes it’s never enough to just solve a problem then move on, what excites him is scaling the solution to the entire planet. He started with this inclination in college and this got crystalized when he became an editor in Mashable. He believes that he has the ability, thus, the responsibility to change the world for the better. It’s part of the reason why he does a lot of the things he does.From editor to VC, to being an author and starting a company, he shares that the rudimentary skillsets needed in each of these roles are the same. It is the switching that’s hard because people can be super focused in one thing and be great at that but when you change roles, your primary focus will shift and you need to exercise those muscles that you have not flexed that much.Captivology: The Science of Capturing People’s Attention is a book that Ben has written and he shares that it is a deep dive into the psychology and science of attention. He wrote it because lots of companies come to him for him when it comes to items such as press, marketing, user acquisition that he realized all these areas fall around the same thing, which is attention. Thereby, going deeper in this subject could be helpful. He went through years of research, interviewed about 50 experts to understand the key things which trigger attention, the seven stages of attention and how to capture attention in each of those stages.The seven stages of attention go in the order of how early in the stages of attention they happen:1 - Automaticity – automatic sensations and how certain colors captivate our attention automatically versus others.2 - Framing – we use framing to decide which things to pay attention to or not.3 - Disruption – we pay attention to the things which violate our expectations of the world.4 - Reward – certain types of rewards and the way they are delivered change the way we behave.5 - Mysteries – the right kind of storytelling captivate our attention for a lot of psychological reasons.6 - Acknowledgment – we pay attention to the people and things which pay attention to us and provide us validation, empathy and understanding.7 - Reputation – triggers our attention based on reputable sources of information, the power of experts, and the power of the crowd.About Octane AI: Messenger marketing is the new email marketing. Billions of people used messaging apps and if you need to reach the younger demographic, you need a software which could communicate to build campaigns to reach this audience to do all that but it is yet to exist. This is where Octane AI comes in. It’s built as a CRM using bots and AI in order to automatically communicate with customers starting with Facebook Messenger and eventually to other platforms. Their target market is companies and brands which are already established. Octane AI can be used for awareness but it is especially ideal for lead generation and conversation. Their biggest challenge right now is writing content for conversation. Writing for newsletters or blogs is one thing but writing content for conversation is another. It’s different and you have to script out what you are going to say and what you want your audience to respond. Once you get the hang of it, the possibilities open up so it’s a new thing that we have to learn.
Robert D. Mather is a Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Central Oklahoma and has also taught at the in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at University of Texas at Dallas. He is editor of Journal of Scientific Psychology and has conducted experimental research on both social cognition and visual perception. He has co-authored the books Automaticity and Cognitive Control in Social Behavior (Fountainhead, 2007) and The Analysis of Variance: An Integrated Approach to Experimental Design (Kendall/Hunt, 2008).
For people suffering with binge eating disorder and stubborn excess weight, there is finally a long-term solution. One based on sound science and an honest look at our food industry, Bright Line Eating is not a diet - it is a way of life that allows the brain to stop making its 220+ daily decisions about food - decisions which put pressure on our willpower to constantly make healthy choices - and instead relies on habit-forming and automaticity. The truth is, most of us are depleting our willpower in so many other ways, we don't have that much left over to govern our food choices - and that's how, despite our best intentions, we find ourselves breaking our new year's resolutions to lose weight and eat better, usually just weeks after we've made them. Bright Line Eating is a system that trains your brain to relate to food from the habit-forming center, rather than the decision-making center, making life - and achieving your goals - a whole lot easier than you ever thought possible.
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Realities of Forming Habits: New Scientific Data This is part three of our 4-part podcast on How to Form a Productive Habit. In this episode, we'll be discussing the realities of forming habits using the most current scientific data on automaticity.This is part three of our 4-part podcast on How to Form a Productive Habit. In this episode, we'll be discussing the realities of forming habits using the most current scientific data on automaticity.About a year ago, the research associate in Health Psychology, Dr. Phillippa Lally, at University College London DEPARTMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PUBLIC HEALTH in theHEALTH BEHAVIOUR RESEARCH CENTRE performed a study on habit formation systematically as they reach automaticity.The findings are quite interesting, albeit there are some constructive criticisms of the work. Here are the four main outcomes of the study and how it may help us with forming productive habits.1. Automaticity took on average 66 days to be reached. Yes, 66 days. Banish the old concept of doing something repetitively for 21-30 days as once was thought.2. Each person varies for similar habits. In the study, we found that the times ranged from 18 to 254 days to reach maximum automaticity. There are many variables why this may be the case: trying to learn too many new habits at once, not enough focus, time and/or attention, or other not-so-easily distinguishable idiosyncrasies. Ergo, don't think about reaching automaticity so much as the work of forming the habit. It'll reduce burnout.3. Complex behaviors take more time. This may seem obvious but our previous understanding contradicts this. Don't beat yourself up so much about not building a productive habit of exercising regularly; it turns out that it may take significantly longer to reach that automatic state.4. Counter to the great psychologist William James's theory, you can actually omit a behavior (say, miss a day at the gym) and it will have negligible effect on automaticity and long-term impact. However, there was some evidence that the effects of omitting the behavior was cumulative and so it's not a ticket to slack off, otherwise you won't be able to build that productive habit.So, there you go. The real deal, theoretically, about forming habits from the latest in psychological understanding. Please join us for episode 15, our final part of How to Form a Productive Habit, where I'll be covering practical aspects of learning productive habits.
Distinguishing Between Habits and Other Forms of Non-Associative Learning In this 4-part podcast, I'll be discussing How to Form a Productive Habit. In this first episode, I'll explain the groundwork for determining how you'll tackle the formation of a new habit.In this 4-part podcast, I'll be discussing how to Form a Productive Habit. In this first episode, I'll explain the groundwork for determining how you'll tackle the formation of a new habit. So, let's get right to it.To make sure we're all speaking using the same understanding of terms, I'm going to define a few key items: habit, automaticity, habituation and sensitization. Then, I'll explain their relationship to forming productive habits.A habit is an automatic response pattern developed by repeating a behavior until it becomes almost or completely unconscious.Automaticity in psychological terms has been described as "unconscious competence" or the ability to do things without occupying the mind with the low-level details required, allowing them to become a habit. Some examples include driving a car, riding a bicycle, music sight-reading while playing the piano, and even speaking.Habituation is the non-associative learning, psychological process, where a person decreases response to a stimulus after repeated exposure. A good example is your clothing. Once dressed, you feel your clothes on your skin but within minutes you no longer actually sense the clothing as your mind attends to more important stimuli.Sensitization is another form of non-associative learning where a person responds because of a progressively increasing level of stimulus. Try rubbing your arm progressively faster until it burns; your response is to pull away because your brain initiates a pain response. It's best to determine when you are forming a habit, whether you need to concern yourself with habituation or sensitization. For example, forming the productive habit of washing the dishes daily may be one part forming the habit and the other part realizing that something in your youth triggered a fear of dishwashing liquid. You'll need to habituate to the dishwashing liquid touching you before you'll ever be able to form the productive habit. And, you may even have a spouse or roommate remind you (with your permission) to perform the habit-in-process until you do it, so that with each reminder, your brain eventually initiates a crescendo-like response to your own commitment to wash the dishes.
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