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ERRR #050. Guy Claxton on the Learning Power Approach

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What Do People Do When They're Learning?

People are good at imagining, at dreaming up possibilities. Their minds are fertile, rather than easily stumped. They're good at thinking, reasoning, analysisa description and explanation. Explanation is a good way of coming up with a good idea about what might work. And this is very much everyday life stuff that might give you a clue as oh, so perhaps i could try this then, if i come up with a workable explanation. So those are some of the things that people do if you're building an all round learner's tool kit.

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