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Learning to Learn

In order to learn, we need to sleep

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Learning is hard and takes effort on a personal level. It requires attention and physical energy.

When you start learning, you need to pay careful attention to bring that information into your short-term memory. Lack of sleep can make it difficult to pay attention to. Even memory champions can only hold 5-7 pieces of information at a time.
When you sleep, short-term memories are moved to a different region in the brain for long-term storage. Your brain then consolidates the information and select what information to forget.

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How I'm using learning techniques from a Coursera course to be a better developer I've been a Software Developer for more than 4 years now and if there's one thing that never changes about this job it's that it is always changing. There are always new things to learn.

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