书籍介绍
这不是一本教你'如何学得更努力'的方法手册,而是一本重新定义'你能学什么'的书。作者的核心主张颇具争议:所谓'我不擅长数学''年纪大了学不会'这类自我设限,多数只是错觉。书中用大量'跨界者'的真实经历证明——转变思维方式本身,就能打开原本关闭的学习通道。但真正让读者'又爱又恨'的,是它把'如何学习'落到了极实处:刻意练习要死磕最难的部分、利用零碎时间、用思维导图激活记忆,甚至详细到慕课怎么选、视频开几倍速、何时果断退课。它适合那些正站在职业或人生的转折点上、想'重开一局'却心存恐惧的人。当然,也有人嫌它知识密度偏低、更像励志故事——但正是这种'用故事包裹方法'的写法,让'改变必然伴随风险,而不改变的风险更大'这句话,有了落地的重量。
作者简介
Barbara Oakley, PhD, a 'female Indiana Jones,' is one of the few women to hold a doctorate in systems engineering. She chronicled her adventures on Soviet fishing boats in the Bering Sea in Hair of the Dog: Tales from Aboard a Russian Trawler. She also served as a radio operator in Antarctica and rose from private to captain in the U.S. Army. Now an associate professor of engineering at Oakland University in Michigan, Oakley is a recent vice president of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Her work has appeared in publications ranging from The New York Times to the IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience.