Learning From Experiences

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There has been research showing that if we want to transfer learning, taking more than one case that are similar and abstracting what's similar about them is going to help you transfer. I think of consuming other people's abstractions as the illusion of knowledge. Most of our education is vicarious. We're not encounter. The situations for us, schooled people, is classroom in many cases. Sometimes it's actually experiences.

My guest today is acclaimed psychologist and longtime Stanford University professor Barbara Tversky who calls on her nearly 50 years in the field of cognitive psychology for an in-depth discussion about how our minds work.

We discuss the Nine Laws of Cognition, why action shapes thought, how the language we use changes what we think, tactics to communicate better on Zoom, why she dove into the work of Leonardo da Vinci, when to use charts and when to avoid them, the importance of perspective taking, learned knowledge vs. earned knowledge, and so much more.

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