The Encoding Process Is Making Your Memory Better

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There are three different steps to learning. The first is encoding, the second is storing and the third is recall. I see students in a Google Drive document taking their notes for lecture by verbatimally writing down what the professor says. And it baffles me, because the encoding process of doing something like that, it's horrible. Like you don't connect the knowledge to anything that you're already learning. But if you're just basically becoming a human typewriter, welcome to college, no human typewriting school.

Skye Helfant is a Sophomore Utrecht University student studying Artificial Intelligence. He’s a great video editor and fellow YouTuber creating content documenting his journey into learning how to code. He uses Obsidian and Anki as the main knowledge management apps for his second brain. He’s also my twin brother. In this episode we discuss how he uses Anki and Obsidian for language learning and coding. We discuss the pitfalls most students fall into with their notetaking. We talk what makes a life meaningful, and how to create a vision as a student.

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