They say as you get older, your brain plasticity decreases. It literally gets harder to learn. The good news, however, is that you can combat it, by constantly trying to learn new things. Over last weekend, I read this book, about the science of learning. And learning quickly. Suitably inspired, I made myself a list […]
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The most important thing to learn
In a meeting with an intern a while back, she complained that the things she was studying in school didn’t seem relevant to our work. “After all”, she said, “how often do we use algebra here?” I told her she was missing the point. You don’t go to school to learn things. Not really, anyway. […]