Peter Doolittle: How your "working memory" makes sense of the world

1:23 - 4 components of working memory 1. Stores immediate experiences and a little bit of knowledge. 2. Reaches back into our long term memories and processes it in line with current goals. 3. Working memory capacity leverages. 4. Great for communication and building narratives around conversations. 6:45 - Strategies: 1. We need to repeat/Practice it. 2. Think elaborately and repeatedly. 3. Rather than connecting new to known, we have to connect everything we known to the new and build connections till it becomes meaningful. 4. Use images/ think in images 5 Organization - Structure things we're doing in ways that it makes sense. 6 Support - Use external supports like charts, tables, etc. until it becomes second nature. 9:06 - Take home message We learn what we process. If we're not processing, we aren't learning.

I literally have had the five words in his video ingrained into my mind for like 3 years now and I don’t know whyy.

I remembered those words all the way to the end and I didn't even need them. Now I can't forget them. I do love the idea of driving down a long highway with a forest on one side and Saturn on the other. Listening to music from the radio that uses electrodes while looking in the rear vision mirror and watching my past fade away into the background.

Long Covid messed with my working memory. It also gave me a passion for understanding how brains work. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

I feel like this is the big issue with people, technology and social media today: people are so preoccupied with recording life, rather than processing/living life in the moment. Great talk.

One of the most helpful TED talks I've seen in long time.

Very helpful talk. every bit. Esp the 5 points solution explained in second half of the talk to improve working memory. THANKS!!! I usually come to youtube to watch ted talks, as it is faster. but now going to ted back, and take notes from transcript.

What he says at the end is completely true. From what I can tell, most of everyone including myself who remembered those words to the end did so by doing something like painting a bizarre picture including those words, thereby processing them.

Short, but straight to the point.  I really enjoyed it.

"If we're not processing life, we're not living it." So true and so cruel😢

i couldn't focus on anything he said because i was trying to remember tree, car, highway, saturn, electrode

Woke up to this new TED talk on my Youtube feed- breakfast.

Prático e esclarecedor! Amei!

Great message! Loved this. I admire Ted videos so much! You guys are all doing a great thing.

Great ending message

Anybody else get here from a Super learning course on Udemy?

i thought he was going to ask what the five words were again at the end of the video 

Thank you

Wow, I love that last sentence at 9:00, the final take home message: What we process, we learn, if we're not processing life, we're not living it.

thank you