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CM 233: Daniel Willingham on Smarter Ways to Learn

Curious Minds at Work

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Do You Have a Coat Hanger?

If you can find someone who has some expertise and understands where you're coming from, that's by far the best way to learn something. Dan: I often think of it, I visualize in my mind like a coat hanger. So if you're talking to me about a subject that I know a bit about, I can start to do some things in my mind that are very different from how I might do them if I don't even know what the coat hanger looks like.

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