How hacking your brain?

After capturing some insights from the Learning how to Learn course, I want to share the important tips for getting rid of bad habits and creating a new way of learning. The main keys are Know your enemy, sleep and rest, focus on the process and manage your daily life.

First of all, it is important to know your enemy, the procrastination zombie, procrastination is the way to go from focus mode to pleasant but also unproductive moment. This bad habit has different steps to get into it:

1.The Cueis a call to action to change the activity
2.The Routine is the response to the cue
3.The Reward is a feeling to pleasure
4.The Belief is the power to think that this routine is great or the unwillingness to put off this habit.

Having the power to know what the procrastination process is like gives you the power to take control over it. For example, you can turn off or ignore the notifications that appear when you work or study.

Second, sleep or relaxation are important in the learning process. When you are focused for a long time and you decide to rest your brain creates new neural connections with the aim of improving on the subject you study in your focus mode. In the same way, sleep fulfills a great function, the function of sweeping away toxins accumulated during the day, if you do not sleep well your brain will be full of toxins and trying to concentrate could be impossible.
Next, it is important to work on the process and not work on the product, for example, if you want to create a web page in 2 weeks, you should to separate this goal into many tasks, if you choose to do it in the 2 days before the death line, you will be surely burnout. dividing this goal will make it easier for your brain to achieve the goal, the product.

Next, it is important to work on the process and not work on the product, for example, if you want to create a web page in 2 weeks, you should to separate this goal into many tasks, if you choose to do it in the 2 days before the death line, you will be surely burnout. dividing this goal will make it easier for your brain to achieve the goal, the product.

After that, plan your day; if you can a night before, your brain will help you keep the order of the day. In the same way, you can put in your daily plan an hour to finish and not extend more hours because it could be dangerous for the health of your brain.

Finally, it is possible to change the learning process and train your brain to change bad habits and create a new more effective way of learning.