Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2020-10-12
Books mentioned on How To Learn & Remember Anything, Fast - Ali Abdaal - #231
Ali Abdaal is a Doctor and a YouTuber. The ability to consume and retain information quickly is one of the most important skills of the 21st century and yet very few of us actually understand the way our brains learn & remember.
Ali Abdaal recommended Make It Stick by Peter C. Brown and others, and discussed Range by David J. Epstein and How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Make It Stick
Make It Stick by Peter C.
Recommended“and there's a really good book called make it stick which is all about the science of successful learning and the authors basically say right up front in in the introduction that look if you're a student or any kind of learner and you're not happy with the way your results are going chances are you're just not testing yourself”
Where to get it
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Range
Range by David J.
Discussed“There's another book called uh range by david epstein where he talks about this basically in those exact terms he says testing spacing and interleaving are like the three sort of primary things for learning any skill whether whether it's like knowledge for a university subject or whether it's like tennis or golf or anything like that”
Where to get it
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How to Take Smart Notes
How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens is an instructional guide that outlines effective personal knowledge management systems and slip-box methodologies for better retention.
Discussed“uh oh i was actually taking notes from this book how to take smart notes uh which was actually about all of this like recall stuff uh and the power of testing and spacing when when it came to the con the context of understanding information from from notes”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“and at the time my specialist subject would have been the harry potter books and i still think it”