Name: Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential
Brand: McMaster University
Availability: OnlineOnly
Rating: 4.8 (3713 reviews)

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About the Course

Mindshift is designed to help boost your career and life in today’s fast-paced learning environment. Whatever your age or stage, Mindshift teaches you essentials such as how to get the most out of online learning and MOOCs, how to seek out and work with mentors, the secrets to avoiding career ruts (and catastrophes) and general ruts in life, and insights such as the value of selective ignorance over general competence. We’ll provide practical insights from science about how to learn and change effectively even in maturity, and we’ll build on what you already know to take your life’s learning in fantastic new directions. This course is designed to show you how to look at what you’re learning, and your place in what’s unfolding in the society around you, so you can be what you want to be, given the real world constraints that life puts on us all. You’ll see that by using certain mental tools and insights, you can learn and do more—far more—than you might have ever dreamed! This course can be taken independent of, concurrent with, or subsequent to, its companion course, Learning How to Learn. (Mindshift is more career focused, and Learning How to Learn is more learning focused.)...

Top reviews

Aug 27, 2020

Excellent MOOC. Has some very useful tips and also breaks the myth that one cant study after a particular age.In fact, after doing this, I feel learning is a life long process and the sky is the limit

May 27, 2020

Thank you so McMaster University & the professors who carried out the course so very well. I hope the course will help me in my life taking important decisions. I learnt a lot through this course.

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By Shane C

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Feb 19, 2025

Some of the professor's viewpoints are extremely biased and don't represent findings in modern neuroscience. The unnecessary inclusion of gender politics really turned me off the course material and made me lose credibility in the instructor.

By Eugen D

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Jan 18, 2020

A lot less substance compared to the original course. The only usefull info in the first two parts of the course (I stopped after that) was the mention of Alex Vermeer' guide to defeat procrastination.

By B M

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Apr 21, 2020

Some valuable information, but delivery can get excruciating. Finished with honours but did not receive a certificate indicating that.

By Maryam V

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Aug 30, 2022

The course was a combinqtion of interesting topics. Howeverm it seems a bit old, and it didn't add much to my previous knowledge.

By Kawthar

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Jul 22, 2020

I enjoyed the course , maybe improvement on the quality of the material and videos . Overall interesting course.

By Faatimah M M

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Apr 5, 2020

I did not recieve my free certificate

By Maegan C

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Dec 2, 2022

HIDAP NA

By Brittny

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Jul 9, 2020

Personally, I found the content to be boring. The course focuses on basic psychology and videos range from 30 secs - 10 mins each, which is quite annoying.