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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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Apr 2, 2020

Very well explained, with a lot of examples, insights and tips. I rarely found a course so focused on learning about achieving results like this. Of course it's not all about this, but I liked it a lot.

By Marco D M

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Oct 24, 2017

I found this course very uselful. I did it after learning how to learn which was a real innovatine discovery for me.

This course gave me the broader view on how brain's patterns and how to work with them

By Ananta

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Jan 11, 2023

I get to learn a lot of new concepts on top of my own. I will apply what I have learned for transformation. This course have something new for everyone. Moreover, it is a course to rediscover yourself.

By Uni C

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Nov 28, 2022

Great course which will teach you a lot more than just how to do a mind shift. Recommend it to everybody who just want to see what is possible with a bit of practice, the right techniques and patience.

By Ghazal J

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Jul 15, 2020

Amazing course. Go through it you will know many interesting fact and tricks about training yourself. You will be more confident, adaptable to change and willingly want to learn things which is lovely.

By M J P

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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

By Ana M D

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Jul 23, 2019

I love this course. Because this course show you a different way of think. And also how you can really leave a continous improve of yourself. Also the material is easy to be understand and explicity.

By JOVINO J M D J

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Jan 16, 2024

Muy buena opcion para ser el primer curso a tomar, ya que a partir de este curso te animaras y entenderas cuales seran las mejores decisiones de aprendisaje en la etapa de la vida que te encuentras.

By Ho N H

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Nov 4, 2023

I love and understand why we need to keep learning every day. Thankfully, I'm learning from MOOCs. I reflect about my online learning habits, so I try to broaden my horizon with more new activities.

By Sueila A S V

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Dec 22, 2020

This course has amazingly shift my perspective in life. I love how effectivity of the delivery of the topics or concepts. All my time spent on this course has been all worth it. Thank You so much...

By Christopher T P

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Aug 18, 2020

I am very thankful in giving me this opportunity to learned this course. I learned a lot of things that will help to developed my personality and my skills of being a mentor.

Thanks a lot!

#MindShift

By Lutz H

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Oct 30, 2017

This course offers a lot food for thought to question your assumptions about missing compentences. It offers profound advice to trigger, guide and enable a mindshift, encouraging a life of learning.

By DR N H Z

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Apr 2, 2021

Its a life changing course! I am so grateful for being able to join this course. I may repeat the course, just to keep the momentum going! Thank you Barb and Terry and team for this wonderful MOOC.

By Ishfaq A

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Jun 22, 2020

This is a very good course. I love to learn new things and want to learn many this is the course where I learn how to learn many things effectively to make successful my dreams. Than you very much.

By Joyce U

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Aug 24, 2019

Barbara... you and all of your associates are amazing. We the public reach down to the depth of our being and humbly offer such gratitude for the highest standard of education. Joyce Underwood

By Abrar H

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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.

By Damian P

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May 3, 2020

I took Mindshift immediately after taking Learning How to Learn, and both courses were great! I enjoyed it since the first video. All the examples are unique. I really love it. Barbara is awesome!

By Sano G

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Apr 24, 2020

This has totally changed my thinking and approach on certain areas in my life

This is a high recommendation to anyone facing uncertainities in their journey

Thanks to everyone involved in this MOCC.

By Rajorshi M

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Apr 25, 2018

This is a good course that adds to your vitality. If you're stuck in a rut then this course will help you get out of that place and even better teach you how to excel. Thanks a lot Barn and Terry!

By Sveta T

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Apr 18, 2020

It was really interesting to take course in Mindshift. I learned many things about memory, got many tips om how to focus my attention and that every failure is not a real failure but opportunity.

By Ana B

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Jun 12, 2019

This MOOC is great and gives you many insights on how to learn, broaden your passions and make career changes. The videos are fun and the teachers play with metaphors to help the materials stick.

By Muhammad A

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Feb 1, 2018

It was a nice course. Most of them are quite similar with Learning How to Learn, though. However, in overall it was a great course, in which I could review and revisit again some topics from LHTL

By Kevin R

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Jun 14, 2020

This course is amazing, I only enroll because of the freebies but turns out it has nice and rich content to it, there are lots of insight I got from this MOOC and they sure is a valuable assets.

By Hasnain J

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May 12, 2020

I learn this course at my ease I started this course on November 2019 and completed this course in May 2020. This course taught me that my weakness is my power, and I can learn anything I wish.

By Romilly C

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Nov 9, 2017

I'm a long-term learner, and I am delighted with how much I've got from this course and its predecessor Learning how to Learn. Fast-paced, well-structured and well-presented. A first-class MOOC.