Learning Engineering Insight: How to Boost Your Creativity with the Focused and Diffuse Modes of Thinking Understanding how we think gives us a clearer picture of what generates creative insights. In this post I explore scientific research and anecdotal evidence on the focused and diffuse modes of thinking and show you how to switch between them to boost your creativity.
Learning Measure Up: How to Dodge Cognitive Biases Using Calibration Being able to monitor our performance is a critical element of effective learning but we’re often misled by cognitive biases. Calibration allows us to sidestep these biases and in this post I present the key strategies for using it in your learning.
Learning The Generation Game: Make Mistakes to Learn More We often associate making mistakes with failure but they're a critical part of the learning process. In this post, I show you the strategies needed to use generation - the process of trying to answer a problem before being given the answer - to deepen your learning.
Learning Mix It Up: How to Accelerate your Learning with Mixed Practice Mixed practice, the process of interleaving problem types and skills, leads to more effective learning even though it feels awkward. In this post I present the key strategies needed to implement it in your learning.
Learning The Power of Elaboration: Get Creative to Boost your Learning Our imagination is a remarkable tool but we're never taught how to use it to learn new information. Elaboration helps you access the potential of your imagination and in this post I show you how to use it to to remember what you're studying and have fun along the way.
Learning Space It Out: Transform Your Learning with One Simple Strategy Spaced repetition is the process of studying information more than once and leaving progressively longer gaps between sessions. In this post I explain why it's so effective and how to use it.
Learning How to Use Testing to Cut Useless Studying Effective learning techniques feel difficult – but the harder they feel, the better you learn. Testing is one of these counterintuitive strategies and in this post I give you the strategies needed to apply it. practice.
Learning Why You're Learning the Wrong Way and What To Do About It The learning methods most of use may feel effective but the gains from them are limited. Research tells us that other strategies are more effective and I discuss these in this post.
Learning Can You Master Anything with Deliberate Practice? People overestimate how long it takes to get good at a skill, confusing it with mastery. In this post I explore the difference and provide strategies for rapid skill acquisition.
Learning Why Mindset Matters and What To Do About It We've all experienced frustrations with learning in different areas. If only more people knew that the most important step to solving these problems is surprisingly simple.