A look at Refactoring your Wetware

REFACTOR YOUR WETWARECHANGING THE WAY YOUR BRAIN WORKSETECH 2009 BY ANDY HUNT

YOUR INNER GAME OF TENNISLET YOUR BRAIN DO ITS JOB

Inner Game of Tennis

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Let’s talk about...

What is Wetware?

Knowledge Portfolio management

Learning to handle Change

WETWARE?Humorous human brain cells or thought processes regarded as analogous to, or in contrast with, computer systems.

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ELECTRICAL

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COGNITIVE

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AND THEN THAT OTHER BIT...

FLEX IT, BABYEXERCISE / SLEEP / EAT / ROCK

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KEEP IT SMARTREAD / LEARN / TALK / THINK

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Your Knowledge Portfolio

What are you good at?

What could you be better at?

Be specific

Have a plan

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Dreyfus Model Stages of LearningNovice

Advanced Beginner **

Competent

Proficient

Expert

Master

Experts and Masters think differentlyFunction on intuition and pattern recognition

They don’t follow rules

Once you’ve reached it, don’t act like one:

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How to Read (SQRRR)

Survey

Question

Read

Recall

Review

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Practice makes perfect

Your brain doesn’t know the difference between what you actually did and what you imagined doing

Surround yourself with Genius

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Let’s talk about Change

It is beautiful

Start with a Plan (visualize and jot)

Be terrified of Inaction

Take small next steps

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Neuro-plasticity

Your brain has amazing capacity to re-wire itself

How you think about things will physically change your biochemistry

Note the mental difference of typing and handwriting (in creating and consuming)

Belief is Physical

What you believe has physical repercussions on your brain

“Aim High, Go High”

Never limit yourself or you will fail every time

Grow those Neurons

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To review...

Take care of your Software and your Hardware

Grow and diversify your Knowledge Portfolio

Embrace Change

Also, I <8 Robots

Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetwareby Andy Hunt

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Yay Brains!

Love, Katie and her brain

Check out my live blog post here: http://www.happykatie.com/dailies/2009/03/etech-2009-refactor-your-wetware.html

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