Ulrich Boser on How to Get Better at Learning

Please Support The Show with a Donation Ulrich Boser is a best selling author and senior fellow with The Center for American Progress. He has been a contributing editor for US News and World Report and his work has appeared in the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, and Huntington Post. His latest book, Learn Better: Mastering the Skills for Success in Life, Business or School - or - How to Become an Expert in Just About Anything, will equip you with actual skills to get better at what some have called the ultimate survival tool: learning how to learn. This topic is relevant to literally everyone. To be alive is to learn and grow and change (whether we're aware of it at times or not!) so it's important to sharpen our skills in order to get better at getting better. What is discussed in this episode will confirm some of what you know about how people learn, challenge some beliefs you might have about this topic and teach you a few things in the process that will make you a better student of life.   Bombas - enter offer code WOLF at checkout for 20% off your first purchase www.bombas.com/wolf In This Interview, Ulrich Boser and I Discuss... The Wolf Parable His book, Learn Better: Mastering the Skills for Success in Life, Business or School - or - How to Become an Expert in Just About Anything Learning how to learn Getting better at getting better The ultimate survival tool Being actively engaged in the learning process Making meaning out of something The hypercorrection effect Giving our brain time to make sense of the information, reflection How critical it is to understand relationships between things Varying the circumstances in which we learn/apply information How it's easier to remember something new if you can hang it on to something old A systematic approach to learning something Value: valuing what you're learning Target: learning small pieces of info at a time Develop: practice & get feedback Extend: elaborating on something, looking at it from different angles Relate: analogies are the essence of thought, relating something to other things Rethink: take time to process information Metacognition: thinking about thinking What are you going to learn and how will you know that you know it? How intertwined emotion and cognition are Digestible parts: learn less at a time At 90 minutes of learning, adults are kind of done Active learning strategies Hypotheticals: what would happen if... Why it's important to stay away from cramming Please Support The Show with a Donation See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.