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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential by McMaster University

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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

DI

Oct 30, 2020

Great course! This is a lot more general than Learning about Learning but is also useful nonetheless. I like the focus on keeping positive and being confident in your potential despite our weaknesses.

EC

Aug 26, 2020

I enjoyed this course very much. I am 64-years-old and this course taught me that you can learn anything new no matter what age you are. I am now broadening my passions and learning is a lot more fun.

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By ricardo s H

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Oct 25, 2024

curso muy bueno para personas que les cueste aprender de forma natural y son sean muy distraidas, te dan recursos sobre como evitarlo, como aprender, como conectar ideas en diferentes ambitos profesionales y hobbies 10/10, me encanto

By Deuteronomio J A

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Oct 24, 2020

This is one of the courses to take especially it will surely benefit the people in their long-term learning not only in school or professions but in life as well. Job well done Coursera and McMaster University as well! Keep it up! :)

By Angeliz L P

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Jun 14, 2020

MOOC is the first course I took up and no doubt I love it. It's opened my mind to more possibilities and areas of where I can focus on improving my mindset, enhance and acknowledge my skill set and be open to new learning in general!

By ARFAN A S

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Oct 9, 2019

It is a very well-structured course. I think this course will be helpful for shifting individuals mind toward success. Guidelines regarding career and success is very much effective to get right direction for a goal oriented person.

By Ilqar M

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Feb 12, 2023

It was one of the best courses I've taken and I'm so glad I was able to finish the course. I am extremely grateful to all those involved in the preparation of this program. I will try to use all the methods I learned in this course.

By Shady M S

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May 8, 2020

Thank You Mrs. Oakley for this valuable information! I really appreciate the work you put into this MOOC. I learned many lessons that I will apply to my future. I plan to take a followup course with you.

Thanks again, you're the best

By Simon I

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May 2, 2020

This is the course that I took at Coursera.

It is an excellent course that is refreshing and effective. It is a short course, and I can finish in 1 week.

I am going to read her book and take another class unrelated to my field.

By Zaid D

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Jun 18, 2018

An enjoyable course as well as having the bonus features about memory techniques really useful. There is more scope for invited speakers in the bonus videos section. it flows well from the original course of 'learning how to learn'.

By emmy y

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Jul 24, 2024

This course has really changed my mentality the environment Iam leaving and also how to deal with procrastination, indeed MindShift breaking through obstacles to learning and discover my hidden potential is a great course to study.

By florin g c

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May 1, 2022

life changer. thank you so much.

life changer. thank you so much.

life changer. thank you so much.

life changer. thank you so much.

life changer. thank you so much.

life changer. thank you so much.

life changer. thank you so much.

By Takiyah A

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Jul 7, 2020

This course has completely changed how I view learning and what I want to do in my career. It has given me many tips that I can apply in my life. This professor is fun and engaging and makes the material concise and understandable.

By Sahil A

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Apr 8, 2020

Really appreciate the content put together by the professors. This was my first ever MOOC that I completed. The way how it was taught is simple for everyone to understand and gives you the kick to be a life long learner.

Thank you.

By Angie L

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Jun 4, 2018

very well structured on several main topics to trigger my profound thinking towards mind shift and rethink the value of broaden one's knowledge in different areas as well developing efficient learning styles with wisdom. Thank you.

By Erdem G

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Sep 30, 2021

This was really inspiring. I think I can navigate through my life in a more planned way thanks to this course as it pointed out the obstacles that I have encountered and will encounter. I learned how to shift my mind in the end :)

By Anuranjani N

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Aug 10, 2021

I took this course when I was trying to change gears in my career. This course made me take the plunge in the right direction for my Law school enrollment. Thank you so much. I have shared the coursework with a lot of my friends.

By Steven A C

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Apr 10, 2020

Really great course on learning! Better than the paid courses I've taken on other websites! It was also useful that the android app has the offline feature. It helped me finished half of the course even though I had slow internet.

By G. A W

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Jul 7, 2020

Excellent and very well presented MOOC with a lot of useful information. I took this as one of my first courses in my return to learning and am glad I did. It had many tips and had a very positive and inspiring overall message.

By Achmad C

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Nov 18, 2022

I am Ahmad Chusanuddin. after taking this course I became excited to always learn learn learn and learn. here it is explained how we should continue to learn. by studying every day will make us healthy and kept away from amnesia

By Hardy L O

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Nov 5, 2020

It was a great course. I did also participate in Learning how to learn and was absolutely thrilled about both courses for their deep insight and quality. I have since received the newsletter and taken part in the Facebook forum.

By Ritu K

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Oct 21, 2020

Excellent Course and Videos. I was glued to the course and completed it in just two days. Lots of new learning and deep insights from this course. I shall definitely apply these learnings in my life.

Thanks for this opportunity.

By Jeremy G J Y

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Jul 6, 2020

Really felt like I learnt a lot. I attribute this to the engaging visuals, and the humour used when delivering this online course, besides good time frame where I was actually constantly looking forward to continuing the course.

By Kaushik K G

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Aug 20, 2019

A fantastic course. I am in my mid career and looking forward to make a change. This course really enabled me with lot of inputs. I recommend this course for anyone looking for a career change particularly, at any stage of life.

By Shawn S

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Jun 21, 2018

A perfect course to complement Learning how to Learn. Use what is in both courses and take time to practice them and practice them again (memory palace and other things you learn) until they become habit or in your subconscious.

By Badar M

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Jun 22, 2022

There are a very few course that can can challenge your preconcived half false beliefs. This course of one of those. It helps you become a life long learner and help sto really break out of your self imposed unconcious beliefs.

By Vidya S

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Jul 2, 2021

A very well organized course. I really enjoyed each and every sessions. And I have also started applying it in my day-to-day life as well. I am really grateful to be a part of this session even though it was an online platform.