Mind & Self
Learning How to Learn
The meta-skill that compounds across every other domain
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Mind & Self
The meta-skill that compounds across every other domain
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How memory actually forms, fades, and gets retrieved. Once you know the curve, you stop relying on the most useless study method: rereading.
Chunking
The process of grouping individual pieces of information into larger, meaningful units to expand effective working memory.
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Dual coding
Combining verbal and visual representations of the same information to create two routes to recall instead of one.
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Retrieval-induced forgetting (RIF)
A memory phenomenon in which actively recalling some items from a category suppresses the later recall of related but uncalled items from the same category.
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Forgetting curve
Hermann Ebbinghaus's empirical finding that newly learned information is forgotten rapidly at first, then more slowly, following an exponential decay unless reinforced by review.
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Cognitive load theory
An instructional design framework by John Sweller that models learning as constrained by limited working memory, distinguishing intrinsic load from extraneous and germane load.
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Retrieval practice
Pulling info out of memory to strengthen it (testing > re-reading).
Spaced repetition
Reviews at expanding intervals, Ebbinghaus + Anki + FSRS.
Desirable difficulty
Bjork: harder-during-practice = stronger-in-retention.
Interleaving
Mixing related topics within a practice session.
Deliberate practice
Focused, feedback-rich practice at edge of ability.
Transfer
Using what you learned in a new context.
Feynman technique
Explain it simply; the gaps reveal what you don't really know.
Consolidation
The brain's process of stabilising memories, often during sleep.