I've recently read the book "Stop doing this sh*t". Despite the name, this is an interesting book. What I like about books you can always get some new ideas. Some new views of the world. What can we get from this book? The basic thing is that if you're not happy don't blame everyone and everything. It's only your fault. Period. Second thing is that you don't need to fix yourself, you need to create the future and move toward it. The second part is more abstract. But I can give you an example: "One of the greatest works of Michelangelo was the seventeen-foot-high, six-ton statue David. hewn from a solid block of pristine Italian Carara marble. It has been said that Michelangelo did not make the status in the way you or I might think he did. Rather, he removed everything from that block that was not David." Think about it.

Unfu*k yourself: Get out of your head and into your life This is my second book since I started to read one book a week. It's a very interesting, self-helping book and I recommend reading it. Here are some thoughts that were helpful for me and that I'll take into my everyday thinking routine. The greatest thought that I've liked is about DOING, ACTING. There is no perfect mood, there are no perfect conditions in life, you must stop paying attention and DO. You have to buckle in and stomp hard on that gas pedal, whether you’re ready to or not. We pay a lot of attention to our thought, to our mood, to society's opinion. Stop thinking about this. Just start DOING. In other word "Unfu*k yourself: Get out of your head and into your life" Another thought is about expectations. Usually, we regret something because of our expectations. We can't build a complete real-life picture in our head. Life is continuously changing. Just Embrace the Uncertainty, Expect Nothing, and Accept Everything. But remember the main thing - Acting. "In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing." - Theodore Roosevelt

How important is randomization. Let's start from here. I believe in science. I believe in random events. I believe that our life was created thanks to random events and coincidence. So, in general, coincidence is an essential part of our universe. What does that mean? I think that we need to randomize our life more, we need more chaotic things, we need to behave irrationally. And if we combine this with the logical life, where we are planning everything, it may give us a powerful harmony. But what is a proportion? How much coincidence have we to have in our life? Let's return to the start. I believe in science. Leonardo Da Vinci did a great job for us. He invented the golden ration. So 38% in your life you should leave for the random, spontaneous events and 62% you should plan. Oh, and tell me how it works.

Types of Long-term memory or inside the brain. You know that we can divide our memory into three categories: long-term memory(the heart of brain), short-term memory (can hold 7+-2 objects simultaneously. Can hold objects from 1-2 minutes up to several weeks) and sensitive memory (is able to not focus on something that is repeatable) Now we can talk about the most important part - long-term memory and slice it in subcategories. So we can highlight: a) Declarative or semantic memory - this is the facts you know. Dogs are barking, WW II had been ended in 1995. This is the memory that you know and you can recall it without much effort. b) Episodic memory - this is almost the same as declarative memory but it combines with your emotions, with your life. You know a lot of details of your first dog, you know the smell of your first love, etc. The good thing is that you don't need any effort to remember these things. It comes to your brain automatically and smoothly. c) Storytelling memory. We are great to remember stories. Our brain knows how to remember stories and loves to do it. It's a good practice to remember some information with stories. And the more story strange the most memorable it is. d) Conditioned memory - this is a type of memory when one event leads to another. This is an implicit memory that is hard to recall without condition. e) Procedural memory - a set of instructions. The cons of this memory are that we need a lot of repetition to remember some things. But when the information is in procedural memory we can free up our conscious and do things unconsciously (driving a car, bicycle). This is a kind of memory muscle. d) Flashbulb memory - this is a memory about very emotional events (you could die for example) and things that are bonded with it. Have you noticed, that on some very stressful and emotional moments time is being slower? That is because you remember much more details than usual. Your memory floodgates open and take in everything. That's all guys. I'm tired and I'm waiting when Ilon Mask combines our brain with computer to avoid these complex things and just store our information on a hard disc and retrieve it with one thought.

Do you really know what you think you know? This is a small topic about how to retrieve information that we try to learn. We can highlight two different types of retrieving of information: recognition and recall. Recognition is when you have a choice. Tests with answers are a perfect type of recognition. It's also easy to create and check. On the other hand, we have recalling, when you have an empty piece of paper and you need to write an answer out of your memory. For example: Describe the major historical events in China from 1890 to 1955... Tough one, isn't it? Recalling is hard to check and there must be a real person who is checking it. Computers nowadays can't efficiently check this type of information. So, nowadays with tons of different learning material and tests, we usually use recognition as a check of our knowledge. But It's not efficient and this kind of information can be thrown away from our memory over time. Of course, not always we need to recall the information. Sometimes recognition should be enough. Just know that if you can recognize some information, doesn't mean that you can recall it.

Long-term memory Let's talk about long-term memory. It's one of the most important parts of our brain. When we want to learn something we hope that this information appears in long-term memory. Of course, there are special techniques that can help us to achieve our goal. One of them is remembering in context. You can imagine our long-term memory as a closet with tons of shelves. If we try just to remember some words by heart It'll go to the "Words I memorized" shelf. But if we try to make associations it'll go to several shelves simultaneously. For example, say you've just learned that the German word for mustache is "Schnurrbart". This information may come to the "German words I know" shelf, the "Words that sound like sneezes" shelf, and the "Odd facial hair" shelf. In the end, It'll be much easier to retrieve this information. So, the general idea is to try to associate new information with the existing one. Try to put it onto different shelves. Don't create new shelves if it is not unnecessary. And of course, be calm and happy!

How do we rember? This is a short article about the information which I got from the book. The book called "Design for How People learn" by Julie Dirksen. I would say that it is riveting and, of course, it helps me to develop my English. One of the purposes to write this note is to retrieve information that is in my head now. So Brief information about our memory: We can divide our memory into three parts: 1)Sensory memory; 2)Short-term memory; 3)Long-term memory; Sensory memory is the first gate that can be opened if the information is important for us. If the information is too tedious and repeated a lot our sensor memory tries to ignore it. How can we use it? We can structure some learning material in a single way, this prevents user to waste their time and attention on unimportant parts. On the other hand, we can change some information to not get users used to it and to prevent the sensor memory to ignore the material. 2) Short-term memory. It's like a RAM in a computer. We keep some information in our head from several minutes to several hours and even days. This information can help us to make decisions. Usually, we can operate simultaneously on 7+-2 objects in our mind. Can we train our short -term memory to hold more information? I hope so. What does this mean for learning? We should structure information and not give a lot of it at once, because the user can't hold it in his short-memory and it's not definitely going to the long-term memory. Long-term memory. This is our goal. This is our magic box. This is sheer bliss. I'll read this part tomorrow. Good luck and take care!