
58: [Self Help] Make it Stick - Peter Brown | The New Science of learning Better, Faster and Deeper
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How to Put Your Knowledge of Learning Into Practice
Learning is not about keeping stuff in the memory, it's about being able to get it out of our memory. Start with a question and read for the answer so that you're looking for those gems that you want to grab onto. The second thing is to do something with the new knowledge when you get it. So you extract the key ideas, you put them in your own words,. You explain to yourself or to your spouse or friend or business colleague how they relate to what you're doing. This form of engagement with that knowledge helps make it real, helps you possess it and deepen your grasp of it. Third thing is to test yourself and by that I mean retrieve this again later from
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