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#31 Barbara Oakley: Learning How to Learn

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Sleep Is a Neglected Aspect of Good Learning

I think the sleep one is like something that people don't understand and the familiarity, and just kind of like doing it every day. What you want to do is test your illusion of understanding based on familiarity and actually practise it. I mean, even it's a simple word, like rusi in saying that in russian, it's hard for a lot of native speakers of english to say that word. If you try to say ityo really, really focus and try to said it a number of times, and then you go to sleep, and thenyou try it again the next day, you will be shocked. It's like, i'm better. And fortunately, i love

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