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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

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.

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.

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By Victoria M

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Oct 26, 2021

It is great to learn how to use your potencial, even if you are scared or think you can not do it. Please, take this course, you will have a change in your life

By Rae P

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Jul 2, 2021

This course is practical, easy to go through in terms of length and the course materials are really helpful when it comes to my personal development. Thank you!

By ulices f

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Sep 27, 2020

Definitely recommend this course. Class is pretty straight forward, but has plenty of great ideas to help you get over the fear of learning something difficult.

By Bryan B

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Apr 28, 2020

So many good things in this course. Seeing through weaknesses, strategies for changing thought patterns, and motivational methods. Highly recommend this course.

By Tursynaliyev Z

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Apr 17, 2020

splendid course I would highly recommend as there is a lot to learn even though you think you know a lot. plus many practical ideas that can be used immidieatly

By Cristian V M

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Dec 22, 2017

Excellent course. A lot of valuable tips and tricks. It should be followed by everybody, not only by those who are struggling to make a mindshift/career change!

By Dr. M T

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May 21, 2020

An amazing learning experience. The course instructors put together an unforgettable and meaningful course related to learning and discovering one's potential.

By Swaroop B

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Apr 22, 2020

Very detailed explanation by Barbara. Never gets boring. I recommend this course to everyone who's interested in learning new insights and gain some knowledge.

By Liz C

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Mar 11, 2018

This course was very helpful in helping me find ways of shifting my thinking about traits I have that would normally be viewed as bad or unhelpful. Recommend.

By Sharon S

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Aug 9, 2020

Thought provoking and inspiring information on learning and changing perspectives. The information was well presented by engaging and interesting instructors.

By W H

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Jul 30, 2020

Excellent presentation and content. It will inspire you to learn more and change your life for the better, no matter how old you are or where you are in life.

By Poulomi B

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May 17, 2020

It deserves the rating it has. I took this MOOC during the COVID 19 pandemic and it helped me stay positive and opened my mind to myriad new ways of thinking.

By Shubham P B

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Apr 29, 2020

I really liked the flexibility of this course. It worked well with busy scheduling, and the expectations were clear and upfront. Memory tips were fantastic.

By chenshuyuan

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Feb 21, 2019

Give me the reasons to find my hidden potential,lead me in a positive learning style .And I know that I can use promodo to help me do things more effeciently.

By Dianne d J

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Oct 22, 2020

Amazing content. And equally amazing mentors! Very relevant nowadays and the learning you'll get from this course will stay with you and will help guide you.

By Aibibi

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Jun 8, 2020

I learned so much! It was truly mindshifting, it changed my life and now I love study even better! Being a slow learner is not a the thing that can stop you!

By Giuseppe C

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Feb 13, 2019

This has been my first course, and I really satisfied about it.

I am planning to take other courses of this kind.

Many thanks and fond regards,

Giuseppe Catani

By Jimena R

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Oct 26, 2020

I loved this course. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to improve their learning skills and also their lives in general. Barbara is a great teacher.

By JESSICA M M

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Sep 25, 2020

Mindshift is a wonderful course. It helps me to know and understand me better. It helps me to discover my hidden potential in a funny and inspirational way.

By Leah d L

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Sep 8, 2020

This was a great course and compliments the Learning How to Learn course. I enjoyed the videos and found the material useful. The instructors are very good.

By ANDREA E C A

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Jul 28, 2020

Amazing course! It is definitely worthwhile, you won't regret it. You will learn a lot of strategies and tools to put them into practice in your daily life!

By ANTONIO G B

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Jun 16, 2020

Thank you for this great opportunity to learn. I learned a lot from this course. Very useful and full of wisdom. Highly recommended to all. Happy learning !

By Dedih D

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May 20, 2020

I took this course in four days. Very interesting and open my horizons, especially in understanding the best ways to learn and optimize the hidden potential

By Al-Batool B

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Apr 18, 2020

Simple, practical and highly engaging. Gives you easy techniques and concepts that can be very useful for your lifelong learning experience and development.

By Doc B

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Feb 19, 2019

I enjoyed the course and truly learned more than I thought I would. I gained real world skills that I have already started to apply in my learning process.