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How to Learn

Logan McDonald on October 16, 2017

For the past several years, I've been thinking a lot about learning science, or the systematic investigation of how we learn. This was fueled by a ...
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Jess Lee

Great post, Logan!

@lpasqualis get the feeling that you'd really enjoy this read!

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Lorenzo Pasqualis

I did! Thank you, Jess, to point this out, and thank you, Logan, for posting this. Very interesting article.

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Thomas Melville

Thanks for a great article.

"Simply re-reading material has been proven to not work"
Definitely agree, I started making notes on my books while I read them and review them at the end of every reading session. At the end of every chapter close the book and recall the essence of the chapter.

You've got to make it a habit too, spend x amount of time every day learning just a little bit. It all adds up, compound interest is a popular term for it at the minute.

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michael prime

"Reflection : write about something after you learn it". Great post, Logan! Thanks for sharing.

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Pranav Kasetti

Thanks for the info! Would you have any advice for software devs not in devops e.g in backend/frontend/mobile development? Thanks!

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Donald Merand

This is such a great article: relevant to me as a human learning things, as a parent of humans learning things, and as a manager of humans learning things!

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Alessandro Diaferia

Great article! Thank you very much for sharing!

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Pierre-Henry Soria ✨ • Edited

Brilliant Logan! Really like your post 🙂