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Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
by Henry L. Roediger, Mark A. McDaniel, Peter C. Brown
This is a book with many ideas how to learn better. It's from 2014 and includes a lot of recent material.
The biggest surprise for me was to see that widely accepted methods are actually not efficient. I always thought that block drills are the best way to learn new material. The authors instead promote interleaved training with the idea that if you give your brain time to forget (!) something, in the process of trying to retrieve it you will remember it much better. And you will have to do it in spaced intervals or the knowledge will start to fade away.
This is a very comforting finding. Don't be hard to yourself because you have forgotten something. It's natural, just try to make it stick better. On the other hand you must force yourself to repeat what you have learnt, which requires discipline and work.
A very revealing book that also motivated me to create my own memory palace. Practice will show if the proposed methods work. When I talked with a friend about it he wasn't as excited as I was so the future results will have to proof if the new method is more efficient.
The biggest surprise for me was to see that widely accepted methods are actually not efficient. I always thought that block drills are the best way to learn new material. The authors instead promote interleaved training with the idea that if you give your brain time to forget (!) something, in the process of trying to retrieve it you will remember it much better. And you will have to do it in spaced intervals or the knowledge will start to fade away.
This is a very comforting finding. Don't be hard to yourself because you have forgotten something. It's natural, just try to make it stick better. On the other hand you must force yourself to repeat what you have learnt, which requires discipline and work.
A very revealing book that also motivated me to create my own memory palace. Practice will show if the proposed methods work. When I talked with a friend about it he wasn't as excited as I was so the future results will have to proof if the new method is more efficient.