{"id":271,"date":"2007-03-04T14:13:36","date_gmt":"2007-03-04T19:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/wordpress\/?p=271"},"modified":"2007-03-04T14:13:36","modified_gmt":"2007-03-04T19:13:36","slug":"whats-going-on-in-there-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2007\/03\/04\/whats-going-on-in-there-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"What&rsquo;s Going On in There? &ndash; notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nAs I&rsquo;ve started reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Whats-Going-There-Brain-Develop\/dp\/0553378252\/\">Lise Eliot&rsquo;s <i>What&rsquo;s Going On in There<\/i><\/a>, I&rsquo;ve realised that my brain, at least, works the same now as it did in university. I cannot read a work of non-fiction and expect to remember its contents, unless I actively work with the text. Exercises, quizzes, taking notes, underlining and summarising&#8230; Otherwise I read, take in the text, think &ldquo;Aah, this is interesting!&rdquo;, and yet I remember very little of it later.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAfter reading 2 chapters of this book I looked back and realised I couldn&rsquo;t tell you a single thing I&rsquo;d learned from it. So I&rsquo;m going back to the beginning and starting over, this time taking notes. And since typing is faster than writing by hand, I&rsquo;m going to post my notes here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&rsquo;ve started reading Lise Eliot&rsquo;s What&rsquo;s Going On in There, I&rsquo;ve realised that my brain, at least, works the same now as it did in university. I cannot read a work of non-fiction and expect to remember its contents, unless I actively work with the text. Exercises, quizzes, taking notes, underlining and summarising&#8230; Otherwise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta","category-observing_the_self","category-whats_going_on_in_there"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}