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How to Enhance Your Memory (and Never Forget) | Gabriel Wyner

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

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How Deep Do You Process a Word?

I like to talk about it in the framework of, well, it depends on how far you wanna go. Let's do frameworks then. Okay, the framework I live in is levels of processing. So this is a framework from the 1970s where basically they came up with this list of words that are simple, bare, apple, pear, like stuff like that. They stuck a bunch of college students in a room and basically quizzed them on these words at random by putting a question in front of each one. And what they found is that if you ask about the spelling of a word, you basically don't remember. It doesn't matter how concrete and interesting the word is, it

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