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 ...

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...

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. ...

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...

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 us...