Sora Vocab
Learning
Productivity
Mental Health
100

A website where you can see your current levels in all of your Skills.

What is Sora Home? or (home.soraschools.com)

100
When you cram lots of learning into a short amount of time.

What is Massed Practice?

100
96 times, or every 10 minutes.

How many times do we check our phones?

100

What is important to us and what we spend our time and energy doing.

What are personal values?

200

A goal you have to complete something by a certain date, usually while working with a Guide.

What are Learning Goals?

200

When you put learning in your own words, especially when using analogies to things you already know.

What is Elaboration?

200

A setting on your devices that will significantly reduce notifications and distractions.

What is Do Not Disturb?

200

The form of motivation that is strongly correlated with mental health problems like depression and anxiety.

Extrinsic Motivation

300

Every Skill has 4 of these which indicate your level of knowledge.

What are Stars or Levels?

300

A note-taking system devised by famed sociologist, Niklas Luhmann.

What is Zettelkasten?

300

Working for a chunk of time (maybe 45 minutes) followed by a short break (maybe 10 minutes). 

What is the Pomodoro technique?

300

The degree to which someone feels control over their own life.

What is the Locus of Control?

400

The group of students who make big decisions for the school and decide on disciplinary actions.

What is The Senate?

400

The common, false assumption that you know something better than you actually do.

What is the "Illusion of Knowledge"?

400

The amount of time a knowledge worker spends productively every day.

What is "2.8 hours"?

400

The belief that your skills, abilities, and intelligence improves over time as you overcome difficult challenges.

What is Growth Mindset?

500

The number indicates how many stars you need to gain outside of expeditions every month.

What is Individual Cycle Pace?

500

Thinking about your own thinking.

What is Metacognition?

500

An ancient technique to improve focus.

What is mindfulness or meditaton?

500

The test with the strongest correlation for lifetime achievement.

What are The Torrence Tests of Creative Thinking?