{"id":477,"date":"2011-01-14T09:38:54","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T17:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scotthyoung.com\/members\/?p=477"},"modified":"2011-01-14T09:38:54","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T17:38:54","slug":"ass-kicking-email-what-lego-can-teach-you-about-learning-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/members\/?p=477","title":{"rendered":"Ass-Kicking Email &#8211; What LEGO can teach you about learning better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey,<\/p>\n<p>In this email:<\/p>\n<p>1. The LEGO approach to learning &#8212; creating models<br \/>\n2. I discuss the implementation guide Advanced Metaphors<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Building Models<\/p>\n<p>Did you ever play with LEGO when you were a child?<\/p>\n<p>Those Danish, plastic blocks that stuck together? You can use them<br \/>\nto design replicas of almost anything. Anything from the Washington<br \/>\nMonument to the Louvre in Paris could be made with the blocks,<br \/>\nalbeit a little smaller.<\/p>\n<p>The idea behind LEGO is that you can create models of complex things<br \/>\nusing simple components.<\/p>\n<p>I want to suggest you should take the same approach when learning.<\/p>\n<p>In my free holistic learning ebook, I talk about creating models:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/Programs\/HolisticLearningEBook.pdf\">https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/Programs\/HolisticLearningEBook.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Models are essentially representations of abstract concepts in<br \/>\nsmaller, more easily-assembled versions.<\/p>\n<p>A metaphor can be a model for something. If I&#8217;m studying the<br \/>\nproperties of atoms, I could view them as being like tiny solar<br \/>\nsystems, with a central nucleus and orbiting electrons.<\/p>\n<p>Here the metaphor forms my model since it takes the abstract idea<br \/>\nand puts it into something I can imagine more readily.<\/p>\n<p>Getting Crazy with LEGO<\/p>\n<p>With your building blocks, you don&#8217;t need to stop with simple<br \/>\nrepresentations. As you get better, you can create more complex<br \/>\nbuildings that better represent what you&#8217;re trying to study.<\/p>\n<p>You can do the same when building learning models.<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t need to stop with a simple metaphor, you can enhance it<br \/>\nto include more elements, bringing more ideas together into one<br \/>\nmental representation.<\/p>\n<p>How do you do this? Well that&#8217;s the subject of the guide Advanced<br \/>\nMetaphors: Using Stories<\/p>\n<p>You can download the guide by going to the CONTENT section under<br \/>\nMONTH 6:<br \/>\n<a href=\" https:\/\/scotthyoung.com\/members\/?page_id=42\"><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/scotthyoung.com\/members\/?page_id=42<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, In this email: 1. The LEGO approach to learning &#8212; creating models 2. I discuss the implementation guide Advanced Metaphors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":478,"href":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions\/478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/members\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}