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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential by McMaster University

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About the Course

Mindshift is designed to help boost your career and life in today’s fast-paced learning environment. Whatever your age or stage, Mindshift teaches you essentials such as how to get the most out of online learning and MOOCs, how to seek out and work with mentors, the secrets to avoiding career ruts (and catastrophes) and general ruts in life, and insights such as the value of selective ignorance over general competence. We’ll provide practical insights from science about how to learn and change effectively even in maturity, and we’ll build on what you already know to take your life’s learning in fantastic new directions. This course is designed to show you how to look at what you’re learning, and your place in what’s unfolding in the society around you, so you can be what you want to be, given the real world constraints that life puts on us all. You’ll see that by using certain mental tools and insights, you can learn and do more—far more—than you might have ever dreamed! This course can be taken independent of, concurrent with, or subsequent to, its companion course, Learning How to Learn. (Mindshift is more career focused, and Learning How to Learn is more learning focused.)...

Top reviews

DP

Aug 13, 2021

A great course for learners to know more about how to learn and give them a fresh perspective about learning and being successful in life. A great sequel after the renowned MOOC Learning How to Learn.

EC

Aug 26, 2020

I enjoyed this course very much. I am 64-years-old and this course taught me that you can learn anything new no matter what age you are. I am now broadening my passions and learning is a lot more fun.

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By Manisha K

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Oct 12, 2018

The course is really interesting, and I'd like to thank Professor Oakley for making it super interesting; delivering an outstanding teaching style. This is really an effective course!

Many thanks!

-Manisha

By aMIr h

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Dec 18, 2017

It has all the things that I want from a course, great marvelous professors. It's like a key to most of my fundamental puzzles in my mind. special thanks to great Barbara and marvelous Terrence Sejnowski.

By EISHA A

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Feb 14, 2021

I enjoyed my journey of 4 weeks course and very thankful to team MINDSHIFT. I will go through the same again as I have sometime left with me to explore more from the same content mentioned in the course.

By PhÆ°Æ¡ng D L

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May 7, 2020

The course is inspiring, useful, and fun to study. I enjoyed the discussion forum and memory tips. I will revise learning materials and apply the technique in my mind shift journey. Happy mind-shifting!

By tampau s

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Nov 17, 2017

It has helped me regain confidence in my abilities and surface those hidden somewhere in the complex potential I possess. It was fun and a bit positively addictive, with useful information. Thanks a lot!

By Patricia A

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Mar 25, 2022

This course gives you confidence and encourages you to remain active as it reveals the tricks our brains play on us.

The mentors use imagery in a powerful way to prove how we can learn more effectively.

By Hongyi W

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Jul 16, 2020

This course is the best MOOC I ever have. It is informative and helpful for my life and study. Dr. Barbara Oakley is a good teacher. She must have made a lot of effort to develop this course. Great job!

By Henkie H W

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Jun 26, 2020

This course gives you insight how important is the life long learning and practice it. We need also to have variety of skill, not only for one that we like. It will be beneficial for future requirement.

By Vijay T

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Jun 1, 2020

Everyone is raving about this course for the right reasons - it is well produced, engaging and motivating. As a MOOC developer myself, I'm humbled by the standards set by this course for the rest of us.

By George K

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Apr 19, 2020

A great MOOC that anyone should take to master the ability of learning. Both lecturers are great in describing the subject and also provide advice related to productivity and work-related environments.

By Deleted A

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Apr 2, 2020

Very well explained, with a lot of examples, insights and tips. I rarely found a course so focused on learning about achieving results like this. Of course it's not all about this, but I liked it a lot.

By Marco D M

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Oct 24, 2017

I found this course very uselful. I did it after learning how to learn which was a real innovatine discovery for me.

This course gave me the broader view on how brain's patterns and how to work with them

By Ananta

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Jan 11, 2023

I get to learn a lot of new concepts on top of my own. I will apply what I have learned for transformation. This course have something new for everyone. Moreover, it is a course to rediscover yourself.

By Uni C

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Nov 28, 2022

Great course which will teach you a lot more than just how to do a mind shift. Recommend it to everybody who just want to see what is possible with a bit of practice, the right techniques and patience.

By Ghazal J

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Jul 15, 2020

Amazing course. Go through it you will know many interesting fact and tricks about training yourself. You will be more confident, adaptable to change and willingly want to learn things which is lovely.

By M J P

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Aug 27, 2020

Excellent MOOC. Has some very useful tips and also breaks the myth that one cant study after a particular age.

In fact, after doing this, I feel learning is a life long process and the sky is the limit

By Ana M D

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Jul 23, 2019

I love this course. Because this course show you a different way of think. And also how you can really leave a continous improve of yourself. Also the material is easy to be understand and explicity.

By JOVINO J M D J

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Jan 16, 2024

Muy buena opcion para ser el primer curso a tomar, ya que a partir de este curso te animaras y entenderas cuales seran las mejores decisiones de aprendisaje en la etapa de la vida que te encuentras.

By Ho N H

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Nov 4, 2023

I love and understand why we need to keep learning every day. Thankfully, I'm learning from MOOCs. I reflect about my online learning habits, so I try to broaden my horizon with more new activities.

By Sueila A S V

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Dec 22, 2020

This course has amazingly shift my perspective in life. I love how effectivity of the delivery of the topics or concepts. All my time spent on this course has been all worth it. Thank You so much...

By Christopher T P

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Aug 18, 2020

I am very thankful in giving me this opportunity to learned this course. I learned a lot of things that will help to developed my personality and my skills of being a mentor.

Thanks a lot!

#MindShift

By Lutz H

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Oct 30, 2017

This course offers a lot food for thought to question your assumptions about missing compentences. It offers profound advice to trigger, guide and enable a mindshift, encouraging a life of learning.

By DR N H Z

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Apr 2, 2021

Its a life changing course! I am so grateful for being able to join this course. I may repeat the course, just to keep the momentum going! Thank you Barb and Terry and team for this wonderful MOOC.

By Ishfaq A

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Jun 22, 2020

This is a very good course. I love to learn new things and want to learn many this is the course where I learn how to learn many things effectively to make successful my dreams. Than you very much.

By Joyce U

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Aug 24, 2019

Barbara... you and all of your associates are amazing. We the public reach down to the depth of our being and humbly offer such gratitude for the highest standard of education. Joyce Underwood