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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Moving a skill from the classroom to the real world. Knowledge that can't transfer is trivia in disguise.
The Feynman technique
A four-step method for testing and deepening understanding by explaining a concept in plain language as if teaching a beginner.
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Bloom's taxonomy
A hierarchical classification of cognitive learning objectives, originally proposed by Benjamin Bloom in 1956 and revised in 2001, ordering thinking from remember through understand, apply, analyse, evaluate, and create.
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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.