Learning by Unlearning

True learning takes place when two boxes are checked off:

1️⃣ An optimal level of challenge
2️⃣ High relevance

If a task is too challenging or too easy, we are quick to tune out.

If a task isn’t relevant to our goals, needs, or interests, we are quick to grow bored.

To maximize your learning, ensure it’s properly challenging (but not overwhelming) and something of high relevance to you.

The Lifelong Learning Project can help you utilize these principles and learn on your own so you can achieve your goals without going back to school.

The first 3 people who DM me “LLP” will receive a $100 discount off of the Lifelong Learning Project.

(Research done by Erin Westgate from the U of Florida)

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What’s coherent is not always correct.
What’s correct is not always coherent.

I learned about cognitive ease from the brilliant Daniel Kahneman in his book Thinking, Fast and Slow.

An idea that is high in cognitive ease is easy for our brains to process, providing us with a sense of mastery and certainty over at least some part of our environment.

But just because an idea is easily understandable doesn’t make it true.

We don’t have to go our whole lives believing simply what is easiest for our brains to understand.

Here are four tips for how to with / against cognitive ease:

1️⃣ Understand the science of learning
2️⃣ Peel back the layers of ideas high in cognitive ease
3️⃣ Seek out information from a range of sources
4️⃣ Intentionally challenge your assumptions

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