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If you can be exposed to a fact, idea or procedure multiple times, youâll retain it far longer than if you experience it only once.
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Retrieval practiceâwhere you shut the book and try to recall what youâve learned without looking at itâis one of the most effective studying techniques.
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Whenever youâre struggling to learn anything, always ask if youâve mastered the basics.
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A clever experimental manipulation found that the students who would have chosen passive review, nonetheless did better when they were forced to do practice instead.
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This concept corresponds roughly to what we think of as our mental bandwidth. It can only hold a few items at a time.
The fix is to slow things down. Write out what youâre trying to learn on a piece of paper, and go through each sentence or step in a calculation one-at-a-time.
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Instead of trying to understand the idea all at once, you need to ask yourself whatâs missing to understand it.
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Weâre never actually doing two things at once. Instead, when we multitask, weâre quickly switching between tasks in our minds.
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By obtaining only a superficial understanding, itâs harder to abstract the deeper principles behind things.
Knowing a programming concept, like recursion, for a test is one thing. Being able to notice that the current problem in your work would be best solved with a recursive algorithm is another.
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The teacher often learns more than the student. Teaching something, even if just pretending, forces you to confront what you know and donât know.
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Genuine interest canât be faked, but it can be fostered.
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