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• Bill Gates and other industry leaders set aside extended week-long reading periods so that they can hold many and varied ideas in mind during one time.
• Value bits of information, they can piece together in new and creative ways.
• The bigger and more well practiced your chunked mental library, whatever the subject you're learning, the more easily you'll be able to solve problems and figure out solutions.
  • Need to build yourself a mental library that holds chunks.
• Chunk can be related to another field.
  • This is what the lecturer meant by transfer.
  • So there are these notions.
    • Transfer means to apply your chunk into another field or subject. For example from philosophy to physics.
    • Interleaving means to vary the way you learning something new. For example by skimming and skipping from chapter to chapter in a calculus text book.
• A chunk is a way of compressing information much more compactly.
• If you have a library of concepts and solutions internalized as chunked patterns, you can think of it as a collection or a library of neural patterns.
  • Diffuse mode can be used to connect chunk to solve a new problem.
• Chunking needs to be practiced.
• Simplify everything when facing a new unknown problem.
• There are two ways to figure something out or to solve problems.
  • Holistic intuition.
  • Sequential step by step reasoning.
• Sequential step by step reasoning, small steps into bigger step.
• Most difficult concepts and problems are grasp through intuition.
  • Hence, most problem solving activity are done in diffused mode of thinking.
• Nevertheless, intuition needs to be verified in the focus mode.