The First Principles of Learning and How Much Can We Learn
The concept of ‘learning’ can actually be difficult to pin down.
The concept of ‘learning’ can actually be difficult to pin down.
Have you ever tried to learn something and failed because it suddenly got too hard?
There’s a simple and a complex answer to the question ‘what is creativity?’
We’re only just beginning to debunk some of the things that we thought we knew about learning.
Do you remember the last time you tried to study something for a test?
Most of us have a sense of whether we ‘have a good eye’ – being instinctively good at something without really needing to think about it.
Many people would consider the ideas of learning and memory to be interchangeable terms. However, there is a subtle difference.
There are surprisingly few ways in which humans are unique from other animals.
The methods used by memory athletes all work on the same principle: compression.
A good learning strategy will consider the 3 most important aspects of learning – motivation, knowledge retention, and the future transfer of knowledge.
All it takes is a powerful emotional association with an event and the hippocampus will ensure you don’t forget it in a hurry.
Never before has there been more information available at everyone’s fingertips.