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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 31, 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.

SN

Jan 18, 2018

Thank you Barbara. It was really enjoyable trip with you in this course. I have found many new learning techniques. Your positive behavior was very encouraging for me to begin a new list of my life!

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By Nadya K

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Jun 19, 2025

Mindshift was more than a course - it was a personal reset!

By Kostas S

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Nov 23, 2022

Very interesting course. Great formulation of the material.

By Mai Q

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Sep 10, 2021

I have changed my mind a lots in a positive way. Thank you!

By Stephanie W

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May 20, 2021

Great course for self-motivation and learning how to learn!

By Manuel L C

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Sep 12, 2020

Un reto para mi realizarlo en Ingles muy bueno, enhorabuena

By ह्रदय

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Aug 22, 2020

Great course , and an essential course for college students

By Amanda W

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Jul 13, 2020

I really enjoyed the course! Thank you to the instructors!

By Tania C

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Jul 6, 2020

This is an outstanding course. Barbara Oakley was amazing.

By Jeric L

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Jul 1, 2020

Great way to mindshift towards the career of your choosing!

By Dikesh K

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Jun 21, 2020

every life lessons were discussed in well scientific manner

By TSHEPISO M

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Jun 20, 2020

I enjoyed this course so much that I did not want it to end

By Pablo R V

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Jun 12, 2020

Very inspiring and fantastically well made MOOC!!! Congrats

By Rajendra T

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Jun 7, 2020

Great content and valuable information, thanks to all team.

By Yvette R

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May 28, 2020

Great MOOC!!! I loved it so much I didn't want it to end...

By Alanoud A S B

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May 21, 2020

The best online course I take it , It useful for everyone .

By Tipsuda R

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May 19, 2020

Recommend this course , learning how to learn for everyone.

By pranab p

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May 8, 2020

Best course for developing new skills and motivate yourself

By Sean H

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Jan 15, 2019

Another amazing offering by Barb and Terrence! Thank You!!!

By Fermin D F

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Apr 1, 2018

Muy buen curso me ha hecho ver todo desde otra prespectiva.

By Brendan B

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Jan 25, 2018

It's a course I wish was available for me twenty years ago.

By eterna m

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Dec 29, 2017

Best cours ever! It helped me so much with learning German.

By Darléne A

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Nov 30, 2017

Uplifting and has changed the way I think about everything.

By Farrukh S

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Mar 22, 2022

This course was well planned, and key for turning the mind

By Truong A D

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Oct 5, 2021

Thanks the useful course that gave me a lot of knowledge!!

By Monica J B

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Jan 10, 2021

I am so grateful I took this course! It is life changing!!