## PKM: Learning - Ecological Psychology 🗺️ - Affordances - Constraints - ... notes: I've been learning a new topic called [[Ecological Psychology]] which contrasts the way we traditionally understand the brain to work. instead of a brain-bound model where all cognition happens in the brain, the field explores the relationship between the organism and it's environment, just like how our minds are extended with tools for thought like obsidian. First I started out listening to podcasts from another PKM creator Danny Hatcher, which was my introduction to this field of psychology. I casually listened to these during walks, so simply captured any interesting tidbits into temporary fleeting notes that would go to my greenhouse. This is where I prematurely created a map of content for the topic, and created a skeleton for concepts and terms I've heard consistently but needed to still learn more about. ---  notes: When I decided I had a decent scope of the subject, I found more thorough resources to flesh it out like Danny's 2 hour video summarizing an introductory textbook to the topic. Since I wanted to be more thorough in my thinking and understanding, I created an input note for it and followed my process. As I watched I filled out the highlights header and actively wrote down any information I found important or relevant to the note. This is due to how we encode new information. We [[Learn something new by connecting it to something that you already know]]. In my case, there was a 50 episode lecture series called Awakening from the meaning crisis I watched last year that mentioned similar ideas on cognition. at one point i even said i got goosebumps. I referenced those notes and understandings to understand the new concepts I was learning about. ---  notes: By the end of the video, I was able to then move the relevant takeaways into the map and surrounding notes. For notes i still want to develop, i can just easily tag them as in development evergreen notes. After grouping these ideas together inside notes and inside mocs, I could better see insights to explore my personal use case on how this can be used for better understanding the benefits and importance of PKM in a more personalized way than i could have following a school curriculum. So now, I have some food for thought, but it's just time to learn how to take these ideas and share them ! This leads me to the second use case, creativity.