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Credit for this quote has been given to a handful of people over the years,
but I believe the earliest source is from 1882 when a student named Benjamin
Brewster wrote in the
Yale Literature Magazine
, “I heard no more, for I was
lost in self-reproach that I had been the victim of ‘vulgar error.’ But
afterwards, a kind of haunting doubt came over me. What does his lucid
explanation amount to but this, that in theory there is no difference between
theory and practice, while in practice there is?”
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Paul Graham, “How to Be an Expert in a Changing World,” December
2014, http://www.paulgraham.com/ecw.html?viewfullsite=1.
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Technically, the term
ultralearning
was first used by Cal Newport, in his
headline to an article I wrote for his website about my recently completed
MIT Challenge, which he titled “Mastering Linear Algebra in 10 Days:
Astounding Experiments in Ultra-Learning.”
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The language of the speaker, it turned out, was a dialect of Hmong,
spoken in parts of China, Vietnam, and Laos.
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For our purposes, the terms
metalinguistic awareness
and
metalearning
are interchangeable. The literature is replete with
meta-
terms
(metaknowledge, metacognition, metamemory, meta-metacognition, etc.) that
have related usages.
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Calls on the phone might also avoid unwanted side effects of face-to-face
meetings. Women who have tried this method have told me that occasionally
their interviewee misinterpret their desire for learning advice as a date.
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This time management method comes from an Italian management
consultant, Francesco Cirillo. It is so named because
pomodoro
is Italian for
“tomato,” and the timer he used was shaped like a tomato.
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Directness, as I’m writing about here, is closely related to the concept of
transfer-appropriate processing, from psychological literature.
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In fairness to Duolingo, there are ways of using the app to get more
direct forms of practice, but these tend to come only from repeatedly
practicing the same lessons on the mobile version of the app.
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Modal logic is an extension of propositional logic, allowing you to
express ideas such as “should,” “usually,” or “possibly.”
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It should be noted that not all researchers agree with the chunking model.
K. Anders Ericsson, the psychologist behind deliberate practice, prefers an
alternative model called “Long-Term Working Memory.” The differences are
largely technical, and both models point to the idea of expertise being gained
through extensive context-specific practice.
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Calling this the Feynman Technique was possibly unwise. It’s unclear if
Feynman ever used this exact method, so I may have inadvertently given the
technique an illustrious history it doesn’t possess. In addition, one of
Feynman’s great contributions to physics was in the form of “Feynman
Diagrams.” So, the Feynman Technique can lead to diagrams, although not
necessarily Feynman Diagrams!
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This book,
Raise a Genius!
, originally appeared under the title
Neveli
zsenit!
I’m indebted to the blogger Scott Alexander and his readers for
sourcing a translation in English.
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