Curiosity Chronicle

Today at a Glance:The Learning Pyramid indicates that teaching is a much more effective driver of retention than reading or lecture. The goal should be to move rapidly to teaching in order to cement new learning.Richard Feynman developed a learning framework grounded in teaching and iteration that was highly effective for him during his illustrious academic career.The Three-Step Learning Model: (1) Read & Research to build a base, (2) Teach to cement learnings and highlight knowledge gaps, and (3) Assess & Iterate to fill the gaps.

Explore the human tendency to complicate life unnecessarily despite progress, and discover 50+ timeless life hacks for simplifying personal growth, career success, relationships, health, and finances. Learn valuable tips on delaying purchases, practicing gratitude, improving decision-making, fostering genuine connections, better sleep, exercise routines, smart financial strategies, and more.

Today at a Glance:When compared to our ancestors, our lives appear to be filled with significantly more attention-grabbing pulls in a variety of directions. Our attention is more divided than ever.Attention residue is the idea that there is a cognitive cost to shifting your attention from one task to another. When our attention is shifted, there is a "residue" that remains in the brain and impairs our cognitive performance on the new task.To fight back: (1) Work in deep focus blocks, (2) take regular walks or breathers between higher value tasks, and (3) batch processing times for messages. Implement these three strategies and you will immediately see a difference in your work quality and efficiency.

Today at a Glance:The highest performers embrace software updates. They treat their minds like a code base that requires consistent updates and resets to improve upon the old.There are a variety of baseline rules for life that are deeply ingrained into our minds and in dire need of an update. Many of these rules are culturally ingrained, meaning they have been repeated and passed down with no regard for their continued accuracy, or the quality of their underlying assumptions.Today's piece shares 8 rules that have been commonly repeated, but that we should probably start breaking.

Today at a Glance:Becoming a father has changed a lot of things about my life. My relationship with time—specifically my awareness of the passing of time—has fundamentally morphed.The Paradox of Time: We are aware of the incredible value of our time but constantly take actions that are disrespectful of that value. We know how important our time is, yet we ignore its passage and engage in low value activities that pull us away from the things that really matter.Our time is finite, but we often fail to recognize it until it's too late. Asking the hard questions and doing the simple math that they require is how you can bring awareness to the surface and rethink your priorities and tradeoffs.