Constructing a Positive Feedback Loop with SNAR - Education Is More Than Just Learning - Interpreting Greedy Dopamine

How many parents wish, if the child can learn to spontaneously how good it should be!

Studies have found that the basis of spontaneous matter is the brain's secretion of dopamine, a neurotransmitter secreted by the brain that makes people feel excited, willing to explore adventures, creative, focused, and calculating and planning.

Let's look at two scientific experiments, and then we will use the SNAR construction method to let children secrete dopamine when learning, and improve the learning effect.

The book mentions an experiment:

Give the monkeys something to eat, set up two doors at the same time, which door is lit, and which door has food coming out. It turned out that as soon as the light was on, the monkeys began to secrete dopamine. Monkeys just eat food during the process and do not secrete dopamine. Here's the point! This is the root of our approach.

The following standardizes on this phenomenon:

A light is a signal, or S for short.

Food is needs to eat, or N for short.

When you see a signal, you think that food is activated , or A.

Eating food is a need to meet (Reach),

Establish a strong correlation between signal and demand satisfaction (Linked).

Dopamine is secreted when the signal appears.

In the whole process, the light is a signal, food is the demand, seeing food is the demand activation, eating food is the demand is met, when the signal and the demand are established strongly linked, in this link to complete the demand is met this step, there will be a phenomenon of secretion of dopamine when the signal is seen.

Expressed in one formula:

f(S,N,A,R)=多巴胺

In this case, we only need to set these 4 variable values to promote dopamine secretion and let dopamine work where we need it.

This is a continuous system, which we call the SNAR construction method, and it is a method that specifically builds positive feedback loop links.

Taking the child learning guzheng as an example, we use the SNAR construction method to build a positive feedback loop link, so that the child learns the guzheng automatically and spontaneously.

S = practicing guzheng

N = took the stage and received applause and praise

A = As soon as you practice the guzheng, you think of going on stage and get applause and praise

R = Get applause on stage with the right audience

L = must go from S to the last step R.

When these 4 variables are satisfied, the child will think of applause and praise as soon as he practices the guzheng, thus secreting dopamine.

Therefore, the specific positive feedback loop scenario can be:

We can first let the child practice a simple repertoire, the process will be relatively short, after the child practices, the parents take the guzheng and the children wearing gorgeous Hanfu to an open-air flow of people, let the child play, will receive applause from everyone, this scene will make him feel that this matter is very important, very satisfied, once the child will practice the guzheng and this need to be satisfied with the feeling of association, it will produce dopamine, the child will have an internal driving force on the practice of guzheng.

Going back to the monkey experiment example, food is the resource and input in this system, so how to improve the input-output ratio?

The book also mentions a pigeon experiment in which a peck is placed in front of the pigeons, and the pigeons will have food come out with each mouth, and then test how to make the pigeons peck desperately.

1. Nag and you'll get the same food.

2. Nagging about whether to be sure whether to produce food, sometimes out of one food, sometimes out of two, sometimes out of food.

The result is the second setting, where the pigeons will nag desperately.

3, humans will reduce the secretion of dopamine in the pigeon's head, it will have no motivation to nag the pecking device. (Here it is proved that the automatic spontaneous basis of matter is the brain secreting dopamine)

Here's an experience point, when there is a 25% probability of food in step 2, the system can last for a long time, and only 1/4 of the resources and inputs are needed at this time to get the same effect.

Back to the example of learning guzheng, we parents do not need to give their children satisfaction every time, each time they are satisfied will make him more difficult to secrete dopamine, only need to practice four rounds of guzheng (each round of specific practice what is set by the parent or teacher), there is a chance to perform on stage, you can make the child love this thing.

Musk's mother, Maye Musk, mentions in his autobiography that Musk was interested in computers when he was 12 years old, so his mother bought him a computer, and after he wrote a game, his mother encouraged him to send it to a magazine. The three children Maye Musk raised, things he loved at the age of 12, all became his passion and career in the future.

Good parents and good education are to help children find positive feedback loops, identify positive feedback loops, access positive feedback loops, and the number and completion of positive feedback loops that children connect with, which greatly shapes himself and opens up the gap between children.

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