It's been almost two weeks since I last wrote this blog. I am so proud of myself that I started wearing the 14th teech alignment this evening. I must confess it was extremely hard to keep the teech alighment on, 24-7 a day, especially the past two weeks period when I had a serious cold.
I saw a Chinese Medicine doctor in my neighborhood twice two weeks ago, took the Chinese medicine for a week. Then my husband accompanied me to visit Ci-Ji Hospital Monday evening, to see the Western Family Medicine doctor. I had X-Ray taken, blood drawn, sputum collected for consecutive three days, and I took home 4 big bags of western medicine, including Amoxicillin 1,000mg bid. I was loaded with drugs of the east and west on my desk. And my weight dropped drastically to 51.5Kg, a super skinny Sherry for the first time in my life.
Nothing is more important than health, I knew it before, I now know it more in depth. This morning, I had an online Japanese class from 8:15 till 9:00, an online English class from 10:30 till 11:00. Then I went to Ci-Ji Hospital to deliver my three days sputum samples to the labortory. When I went downstairs, I decided to stick around to see an annual performance at the auditorium from 11:30 till 12 noon.
For senior citizens, the muscle strengh is important to keep healthy. I must be more disciplined to visit the sports center regularly. God help those who help themselves.
In the evening, I read the book review on "Output Encyclopedia for Converting Learning into Results 学びを結果に変えるアウトプット大全" by Shion Kabasawa. I am going to borrow the book from the Taipei City Library to see the better picture.
The author begins the answer by stating that a child’s brain is different an adult’s brain, specially on how information is processed. The two keywords here are input and output.
Input is considered as all behavior that may increase your amount of knowledge about a specific subject. Classic examples are listening to a lecture and reading a book. Output is considered as all behavior that is a manifestation or expression of what you know, or what you feel. Examples are writing a book, talking, and taking photos.
The kids’ brain is finely tuned for learning from input, while adults’ brain no longer recognize input as being essentially important for learning. An adult needs to output in order to fix new concepts.
There are three rules of output:
1 – A frequently used memory is stored as long-term memory.
Recall a memory at least three times in two weeks and it will be recognized as an useful piece of information then stored as long-term memory.
2 – The learning curve is proportional to the speed you complete the cycle of input-output-feedback.
When starting to learn about a subject, one should first input, then proceed to output what you just learnt, then get feedback. Without a proper feedback, one cannot properly enter the next learning cycle.
3 – The golden ratio for learning as an adult: time spent inputting/time spent outputting = 3/7.
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