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Retrieval means deliberately dredging up knowledge from your mind—not just passively exposing yourself to it.

Countless studies show retrieval practice works better than passive review . If you’re going to use the knowledge in a specific place, practice in that place. Do practice tests, work on real problems and apply it.

Spacing is the idea of repeated reviews, spread out in time . It’s one of the most robust effects in cognitive psychology, benefiting many subjects.

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Regardless of how it works, its effectiveness is certain. A good routine needs to cover old knowledge along with new.

The goal of learning is for things to make sense. If something feels like an arbitrary collection of facts, that’s a sign you aren’t investing in understanding it.

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Instead of specifying an exact routine—let’s look at the ingredients any such routine would have. Get the essential recipe right and the spices are up to you.

There are five main ingredients to include in any studying schedule you could dream up:

  1. Instruction
  2. Retrieval ...

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Here’s your homework for today:

  1. Pick something you’ve been trying to learn.
  2. Go through each of the five ingredients. Which is missing or weak?
  3. What’s one way you could add it in?
  4. Go to the comments page and write down your response!

Bookworms a...

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Not all understanding needs formal methods. With understanding as a goal, you change how you learn. The question stops being, “How do I cram all of this into my head?” and becomes, “How do I make all of this obvious?”

Feedback is obviously useful. But there are some common misconceptions. ...

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The mechanism is less clear. Consolidation via deep sleep may play a role. Other theories suggest activating knowledge from different prior contexts makes more robust cues for retrieval (e.g. studying it from both you...

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Previously, I explained the difference between learning bounded and unbounded subjects . School is bounded. Life is unbounded. The difference is critical.

In today’s lesson, I’d like to shift from search strategies to routines. What’s...

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The ingredient of the perfect studying routine

  1. Instructions can be in the form of lessons, books, or tutoring. They are useful to avoid wasting time with trial-and-error.
  2. Retrieval involves deliberately remembering the knowledge, not just passively reviewing it.
  3. Spacing

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