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#024 - Peter C Brown - The Science Of Successful Learning Habits

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The Importance of Time and Attention in Learning

Trying, cramming and rushing your learning together is not giving you enough time to allow that to settle. It isn't just spacing out the practice of something with intervals between so that you're a little rusty,. So it's a little more difficult to do and that difficulty actually strengthens the... Desirable difficulties again, right?Yeah, right. Well, that's exactly right. But it's also true that in a course, let's say you're a professor in a class, it's better to introduce a lot of the material earlier in the course and come back to it over the period of the course. When learning is distributed like that, it sticks better and it has more opportunities

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