Effective Learning Practices and Skills

The biggest myth about learning is that learning happens with you consistently do the same action or read the same passage over and over again. Science on the other hand states that learning happens when we try to get new knowledge out of our head

If you want to learn Retrival is key

The act of retrieving information especially when it is difficult to do increases the change that it sticks in your brain Retrival is the most effective way to learn

• Use Quizzes
• Searching for the ans...

Three things you can do to learn anything faster

1. Create self-quizzes to retrieve more often
2. Reflect on my asking many questions
3. Empty Recall: Create a empty sheet and dump all the information you learned

Most people believe that when you understand something right away you are learning better that is not the case

Learning is not easy here is why

• It requires you to seek ideas, patterns and rules
• It requires extensive Cognitive Load

• Do some of your work consciously
• Think about how it relates to other things
• Wrestle with the idea in your mind
• Explain it to someone
• Take notes on it or connect it to other maps
• Do anything to make that new idea connect with other ideas in your brain

Learning is not as quick as many people believe to learn something new you must go through a series of steps including

1. Storing: This is the art of storing information in your short term memory
2. Consolidation: learning over a long period of time typically overnight

A study was conducted that had two different baseball players practice hitting the ball.

• One of them practiced the same style over and over and switched every 15 hits
• The other players had varied styles over 45 different attemps

The Players who varied there ...