40 ‘Cool Guides’ People Shared On This Group That Contain Information They Don’t Teach At School (New Pics)
Whether we're talking about politics or the animal kingdom, learning something new can require a fair amount of time and effort. Luckily, we don't always have to read lengthy scientific papers. Some people do it for us. And not only that — they narrow down everything to a few bullet points and illustrate them to help our minds remember.
And if you want a place that stores these effective tools, look no further than the subreddit r/CoolGuides. As the name suggests, it collects picture-based reference guides for pretty much anything and everything.
"If it seems like something someone might print, physically post, and reference then it is a good link for this sub," its moderators write in its 'About' section.
Continue scrolling to check out some recent posts that garnered a lot of attention within this online community and if you find yourself hooked, fire up Bored Panda's earlier publication on it too.
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Dana Jandhyala, who has had a long career as an educator where she has taught in different schools and institutes, believes that visuals hold more appeal than plain text to curious and intuitive minds.
"Till date, several studies have been conducted which prove the power of visual aids in eLearning," she wrote. "And there are some interesting results drawn from them. Such as, learners respond to visual information faster as compared to text-only materials. Also, visuals help improve learning tremendously and on multiple levels. Hence, around 65% of the population comprises visual learners."
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Jandhyala said there are several advantages of visual aids:
They help store information longer. "Images are the simplest and the most effective way to make sure that the information gets stored as long-term memory. As per Dr. Lynell Burmark, an education consultant, our short term memory processes words and can only retain about seven bits of information. Whereas, images are directly processed by our long-term memory, where they get indelibly etched."
They make communication quicker and simpler. "Information listed in bullets is no doubt simpler to process. But, that same information in the form of an image or a video is processed even more quickly."
As per the Visual Teaching Alliance:
- Of all the information transmitted to the brain, 90% is visual;
- As opposed to text, visuals are processed 60,000x faster;
- Humans are capable of getting the sense of a visual scene in less than 1/10th of a second;
- 40% of nerve fibers are linked to the retina;
- Our brain can see images that last for only 13 milliseconds;
- The human eye can register 36,000 visual messages every hour;
- Hence, the eLearning programs which incorporate suitable visuals gain a higher preference over.
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Visuals aid better comprehension. "They help learners grasp concepts easily by stimulating imagination and affecting their cognitive capabilities. Besides, the visual language is also known to have the potential to stretch 'human bandwidth' – which comprises absorbing, comprehending and analyzing new information."
Visuals act as stimulators for emotions. "Emotions and visual information are processed in the same part of the human brain. Visual stimuli and emotional response are linked in a simple way and these two together generate what we call memories. Hence, powerful images and visual metaphors create strong impressions and lasting memories in learners."
They drive motivation. "Most of the students struggle with some of their subjects because they find them uninteresting and hence lack the motivation to put in the required efforts. Visuals are the best bet in such scenarios. Captivating images, engaging videos, interesting infographics, etc. help learners fight the boredom and motivate them to do better."
So it very well might be that the things you'll learn from these guides will stay with you. At least for a little while.
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Took a 2yr tech course and ended up making more than friends who got a degree..
Also add many of above require continuous retraining and certification which is a good habit to get into for changing world
Load More Replies...it's a very biased job though... need to be tall, skinny, and have many flat arms
Load More Replies...However - be careful of a profession that will ruin your body. You don't want to be a 45 year old auto mechanic that lives in constant pain and/or needs to figure out a new career at 45 yrs old.
I became a nurse so I could stop doing work that would ruin my body only later to learn that that nurses and healthcare workers face the highest risk for on the job injury out of all jobs, including construction! So it goes..
Load More Replies...Good plumbers, carpenters, master electricians, welders, small engine mechanics, auto mechanics make a hellava lot more than that.
Agreed, I'm a contractor and would love to pay my plumbers and electricians rates like those.
Load More Replies...Yes! We need people in the trades. We’ve glorified college so much that we don’t have enough people doing this kind of work anymore!
I tried being a wind turbine. Arms got tired. And you don't want to know where they wanted to put the plug.
I have been told by many an educator and business exec that community college is never a waste of time or money
I think mostly they are talking about a 4yr degree. Many community colleges offer associate's degrees in many of these fields.
Load More Replies...Not at all. Can be serving multiple customers at the same time when doing colour. Or can be just doing multiple simple cuts in an hour. Actually quite lucrative if you don't mind being on your feet all day and you know what you're doing with a pair of scissors.
Load More Replies...My son just got his CDL. Four weeks of school, two weeks classroom, two weeks driving. Had a job three days after passing his CDL test. He said a college graduate could never get a job making this money. Although my daughter to go to college, she is a vet tech, but she loves her job!
I try to preach this all the time to people complaining about their student loan debt. If you don't have a rich mommy and daddy, go to a trade school first, start making bank, then enroll in college if that's the route you want to go. After 2 years of trade school, I was making almost 6 figures. All from a $9,000 education.
Enroll in a decent health care plan, most of these jobs are very hard on the body.
Pastry and Baking tech degree here. I don't make as much money as those other folks, but I love my job.
Oh I'm so jealous! That career sounds like heaven!
Load More Replies...Each degree is different and each profession is different. A profession is like a product - if there is a high demand and low supply then price increases accordingly and there are a lot of opportunities to expand. It is wrong to think that any university degree will always overthrow the basic trades.
These wages seem too low. Is this in the USA ? Trades people in Australia are paid much more.
Show more female trades that pay well. Hairdressing is just one.
that's what they told us back in high school in the 80's. and then they changed the jobs. the only guys out of our tech school actually IN their techs? loggers and a few auto mechanics and body people. everyone else's skills were obsolete before we finished.
No trade schools here, just penty of junior colleges offering Woke 101 class.
Plus the Australian government is trying to encourage more people in certain fields so there are plenty of free TAFE courses!
This chart illustrates the gender pay gap in a nutshell. If you enjoy being harassed and disrespected, be a female in any but the top job on the list.
My son is in HVAC. Best decision we pushed him into. He didn't want to go to college and we weren't going to sit around and watch hm be a bum. One of his high school friends went to college. I don't know what his major was, but he is currently a barista
I'm honestly surprised 'Wind Turbines' isn't more, that seems like hard and dangerous work.
At the same time, you have to have the aptitude and abilities for the trades. For example, someone with acrophobia isn't going to be able to work on wind turbines.For many of the others, you need a good mechanical aptitude and strength.
I was shocked at how much R.N.'s make! Often just under $100 an hour or even more. It's a degree worth having and you can find work anywhere in the country.
Two types of desirable job:- a) one you can immerse yourself in, do well at and is so enjoyable you could see yourself doing it for free (not that I am suggesting that); b) the other is one you can tolerate, that you can do well at, and that pays enough for you to pursue hobbies etc that provide the satisfaction you would achieve in 1) above. Any job you get always aim to be the best around. If you are the best plumber in town you will always have a job. Dressmaking may go overseas, but the best seamstress in the state will always have work, even if its at the museum repairing historical items. Car repair is dying but historical cars with unobtainable replacement parts will always be around.
well, here in Canada some of those trades are taken at a college in my town.
In Germany, one of (if not THE) least-paying job is hairdresser. No, wait - I think dental-technician (not dentist, but the people who make your fake teeth) makes less. But carpenter and plumber earn a hella lot more and are highly sought (as most trade-learned jobs)
The hairdresser line is exceedingly misleading. Starting out one is likely to just barely make minimum. You only make that kind of money if you run your own salon or work in a high-pay, high-demand region. And the hours are awful. Watched one of my stepdaughters get chewed up by this field.
While this is true, it's not entirely true. Many of those jobs DO require an education beyond high school, even though it's not college. And many of those jobs are much more physically demanding than the types of jobs you'll get with a degree, meaning you may not be able to work as many hours or years. As an example, my aunt owned her own salon, made good money too. Until the constant chemical exposure caused neurological damage and she was forced to close her salon and spend the last 20+ years on disability.
This could be true, or it could be greatly inflated numbers promoted by local trade schools. These jobs are often hard labor. Some are also reduced in employment opportunity: carpentry is down to bare basics, not skilled artisans. Most of these jobs also now force workers to work for a corporation as a contractor, without good pay or benefits. It’s happening to every trade, including doctors. It USED to be the case that people could live well on these careers, and even be their own biases, but laissez-faire capitalism is literally destroying every opportunity or option for the masses in order to push the wealth up to the very top where it stays.
I've seen welder lower, like at 13.50 lower. Some companies will down grade pay of trades in a heartbeat, all places that I worked at did. Maintenance too.
My city had such a hard time finding plumbers and electricians that companies were paying triple rate.
Read a joke on Readers Digest many years ago, a woman talking to her friend about her 3 sons, Eldest had a major in history, middle one had a doctorate in philosophy, and the last one was a plumber. Friend felt sorry for the third one, and the woman said "Well... if it wasn't for him, well be all hungry"
Trade school is just a good if not better and you don't walk away owing a king's ransom in student loans. I know several people pulling near or over six figures who don't have degrees or got them long after they started making that kind of money. They had the skills and experience people wanted.
Unpopular opinion - college and trade schools both have useless programs and useful programs, and the ones you hear bitching are the ones that signed up for useless. Nothing to do with college vs trades, everything to do with choosing between. Also, pretty much anyone with a job that earns more than these jobs went to college.
The sad part is many of these career's have a short life. A person in their 50's is going to probably have a hard time climbing the turbine. Remember that you will be performing this job for 40+ years. If you want to advance then you will probably have to attend courses and possibly get a college degree.
Yeah, that's a laugh. My friend's son was working as an auto mechanic earning $11 an hour. So he went to an automotive college for two years, and went into debt to the tune of $30,000. Then he tried to find a job with all his new education. Turns out nobody cared. So he got a job at $12 an hour. He's doing much better now, but he doesn't earn that kind of money.
I went directly to the offshore oilfield and started off making better money than my Federal government supervisor father. By the time my most ambitious classmates finished their professional degrees, paid their dues, and slowly entered their peak earnings years, I had already been there for decades. It destroyed my health, but I did get to retire at Fifty. There's a price for everything you get in this life.
I wish you had marked the "destroyed your health" in bold. For me Being in constant pain would not be worth the money. ( I am anyways but that is a different story) I would rather live modestly but healthy for the full life. I have lived "wealthy" and have lived frickin broke - I prefer the middle ground. roof over head, food on table and bills paid.
Load More Replies...What? Hairdressers earn that much in the US? In Germany that's a very low payed job.
It depends on the clients. Some people are willing to pay a ridiculous amount for a haircut, if they are convinced this person is "famous". Or if they fall for the BS of the "this is for the rich and famous" - we have a saying - if you have to ask how much... you can not afford it...SMH Greed rules america
Load More Replies...Academia has been rolling out the propaganda for years..I have been inside post-secondary system for 30 years so make of that what you will
ok I am confused isn't trade school college??? even if you apprentice you still need to do collage release for these jobs don't you??? Is us College the same as University???
We have trade schools / Community college (2 yr associates degree) / University ( 4 year degree ) most "common"/ and Graduate schools ( masters degree and phd) then specific legal and medical universities
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Bored Panda is just a content aggregator to generate ad impressions. They didn’t create any of these.
Load More Replies...Interesting and informative, but these are not the things you learn in school.
Maybe not anymore. I learned all that proofreading stuff in grade school. The music thing is annoying but I guarantee they teach it in some Montessori school somewhere...
Load More Replies...These are helpful!! I'd enjoy more content like this. Thanks for this one!!
See,you don't need a shittoker with 80% of the picture covered with face to explain it to you.Great content bp👍🏻
Bored Panda is just a content aggregator to generate ad impressions. They didn’t create any of these.
Load More Replies...Interesting and informative, but these are not the things you learn in school.
Maybe not anymore. I learned all that proofreading stuff in grade school. The music thing is annoying but I guarantee they teach it in some Montessori school somewhere...
Load More Replies...These are helpful!! I'd enjoy more content like this. Thanks for this one!!
See,you don't need a shittoker with 80% of the picture covered with face to explain it to you.Great content bp👍🏻