The Importance of Spaced Repetition

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Alex Castellanos: I think something striking about you is that you're really a generalist. You seem to have interesting things to say about a very wide range of topics. He says he's somewhere between a generalist and a specialist, but in a handful of areas.Castellanos: If I don't know what the person's discussing, I just try to understand it in real time because there's a good chance my listeners aren't necessarily with an understanding of it right now.

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Is it possible to be both agreeable and skeptical in conversations? How can you give feedback and challenge people constructively without triggering their automatic self-defense mechanisms? More generally, how can you challenge people intellectually without riling them up emotionally? What skills are needed to be able to have detailed, productive conversations across a wide range of topics? How can you push through plateaus in the process of self-improvement? What are podcasts as a medium good for?

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