2021-06-09

spaced repetition is key

Some great quotes from Dr. Barbara Oakley -- Learning How to Learn for Illusions of Competence

seeing the information in front you, such as reading a book, doesn't mean you know it.
seeing or hearing someone come to a conclusion doesn't mean you know how they get to that conclusion or explain their argument.
searching for something on Google gives you the illusion that the information is in your brain.
spending lots of time with material doesn't mean you know it.

The person who says they know what they think but cannot express it usually do not know what they think. -- Mortimer Adler (Philosopher)

To regard anyone except yourself as responsible for your judgment is to be a slave, not a free man. -- Mortimer Adler (Philosopher)

I don't want to be a mindless consumer of data

spaced repetition

the brain is like a muscle, it needs to be flexed often
the more often you do the thing you want to commit to memory the better your understanding of that thing will stick in your memory.
you don't need to memorise everything that comes your way, that's impossible

to recognise the limits of your knowledge and to appreciate others' intellectual strengths is one of the best things you can do.

it's in our nature to focus on how we were wrong rather than we're now smarter. Attaching our egos to what we believe is determental to growing. A view is how you see something, it doesn't define you.

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