Learning How to Learn

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• Dive into a position where you are WRONG as quickly as possible
• Using the Feynman technique
  • Take paper out and try to teach someone else
• CREATE VIVID EXAMPLES: – simple analogies and metaphors.
• MENTAL TOOLS FOR MOTIVATION: Little mini projects, little mini steps
• PROJECTS for self-education:
  • Benny Lewis: Always have a mission (3 months in a country to learn a language)
  • make CONCRETE projects that excite you
• MIT’s opencourseware have exams, so exam + problem set + book
• “Learn more by studying less” – low efficiency low intensity
  • Try specific chunks of time 4 hours :)

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Chunking is important! Chunking is using RECALL to put what we just learned into a tidy package.

Einstellung is when you are so deeply intrenched in a field of study that you aren’t able to see creative alternate solutions

NOTES FROM VIDEO

Philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn discovered that most paradigm shifts in science are brought about either young people or people who were originally trained in a different discipline. They’re not so easily trapped by einstellung, blocked thoughts due to their preceding training. And of course there’s the old saying that science progresses one funeral at a time as people entrenched in the old ways of looking at things die off. Play video starting at 7 minutes 48 seconds and follow transcript

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The 30 Second Review:

What did I just learn?

The importance of chunking!! – Chunking needs understanding – Chunking is gathering thoughts together – Chunking is stressing the importance of recall

WHAT DID I JUST LEARN:

• Reacall is important
• The 30-second review is something I should do after every video
• The “picture walk” through a textbook is good to get your feelers out.

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