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Five Popular Myths About Learning That Are Completely Wrong
Focusing On One Subject At A Time
When it comes to learning a difficult subject, people often believe you should practice one thing at a time.
How to really learn: Mixing it up, however, is a better approach. In mixed learning, you get a chance to see the core idea below it.
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Set Learning Styles
There’s no research to support learning styles.
How to really learn: Match your content to the process - students should learn music by listening to music, while students should learn reading by doing more reading.
Rereading Material
How to really learn: Instead of rereading, highlighting, or underlining important information, ask yourself:
- ‘What is the author trying to say?’
- 'How is this different than other things I’ve read?’
- 'How does this relate to other material I know?’
Sticking With The First Answer
In school, many of us were taught that if you put an answer on a test you shouldn’t change it, but we’re actually better off reconsidering. We actually need time to deliberate and reflect to understand something.
How to really learn: While facts are important, how you use them is key. To solve new problems and come up with ideas, you need analogies and systems of how things relate to each other.
More Time For Learning
Putting in a lot of hours doesn’t always mean you’ll become good at something. People tend to be blissfully unaware of their incompetence.
How to really learn: What works instead isn’t just time; it’s outside advice and input. That’s why hiring coaches and tutors is so beneficial to learning.
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Re-reading and highlighting
Both of these study strategies are relatively ineffective. Passively reading the same text over and over again won’t do much for recall unless it’s spaced out over time.
Different learning styles
Systematic studies of learning styles have consistently found no evidence or very weak evidence to support the idea that matching the material to a student’s learning style is more effective.
Right or left-brained
There is no conclusive evidence that people preferentially use the left or right hemisphere.
Certain functions are processed more by one region of the brain than others, and this is known as lateralization. But we all use our entire brain equally.
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The meaning of Genius
The true meaning of the word 'Genius' has been lost in translation in history.
Nowadays it is referred and related to 'achievement', which was not the original meaning. Real genius...
Genius And Genetics
It is a myth that genius parents have genius offspring.
There is no genius gene and genetics can be part of the mix, along with attitude, commitment, and a certain mind-set.
Genius And High IQ
Genius does not require encyclopedic knowledge or an impressive degree.
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A phenomenon of the 1960s
Hippies may be the most famous symbol of the 1960s, but they only really became popular in the early 1970s, when their numbers and influence peaked.
- The hippies' drug subculture in ...
Coastal cities or rural communes
One of the myths related to hippies is that they lived only in coastal cities or rural communes.
The earliest surge of hippie culture took place in coastal cities such as San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles, but almost every city had a neighborhood or public place where hippies hung out.
Protesting in the streets
Many people think hippies with flowers in their hair were at the heart of the antiwar movement. However, antiwar protesters and hippies were usually two different groups.
- Hippies prioritized spiritual enlightenment, community building, drugs, and rock-and-roll.
- Hippies were indifferent or opposed to activists' political organizing.
- Hippies hoped to change America by seceding from established institutions, not by reforming them.
- Hippies disregarded popular norms and instead looked inward for peace and wisdom.
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