1012: Triple Your Learning through Productive Failure with Dr. Manu Kapur

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🗓️ 18 November 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Manu Kapur reveals how to maximize learning by intentionally designing for failure.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why to avoid explanations and experts (at first)

2) How to achieve the sweet spot of deep learning

3) Four ways to hack your motivation

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— ABOUT MANU —

Dr. Manu Kapur is a world-renowned expert on learning and currently heads the Future Learning Initiative at ETH University Zurich. He divides his research time between ETH Zurich and the Singapore-ETH Center in Singapore. Dr. Kapur earned his doctorate in Education from Columbia University.

Dr. Kapur is known for his pioneering research on intentionally designing for and learning from failure, demonstrating how this approach can lead to more effective learning compared to traditional methods. He frequently speaks at corporate and educational events and is often interviewed on learning-related subjects, including several appearances on NPR and two successful TEDX talks: Productive Failure and How Failure Drives Learning.

• Book: Productive Failure: Unlocking Deeper Learning Through the Science of Failing (book site)

• TED Talk: Productive Failure

• TEDx Talk: How failure drives learning | Manu Kapur | TEDxHSGSalon

• Website: ManuKapur.com

• LinkedIn: Manu Kapur

• Twitter/X: @ManuKapur24

• Instagram: drmanu_kapur

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0:00.0	If you don't learn to fail, you will fail to learn and grow.
0:11.8	One of my colleagues, it's one of the top mathematicians in the world.
0:15.3	And he told me, 95% of my efforts at solving problems are failures.
0:19.7	And he says, but if I don't have them, I'm not able to get to the correct solution.
0:23.8	95% of the things just don't work out.
0:26.1	But they are the backdrop, the launch pad for me to then think about the things that can
0:30.4	actually work.
0:32.7	Experts just telling what they know is still not sufficient because, and what an expert
0:37.3	sees in their
0:38.3	presentation is not what a novice is saying. And therefore, the first job of learning something new
0:44.5	is actually not to be told what the correct thing is.
0:56.6	That's Dr. Manu Kapoor.
1:03.0	He's a world-renowned expert on learning and the current head of the Future Learning Initiative at ETH University, Zurich. He's also known for his pioneering research on intentionally designing for and learning from failure,
1:09.3	which he discusses in his latest book,
1:14.3	productive failure, unlocking deeper learning through the science of failing.
1:19.1	So you'll learn one, why to avoid explanations and experts at first, two, how to achieve the sweet spot for deep learning, and three, four ways to hack your motivation.
1:23.8	And if you want to get a quick summary write-up of some of these takeaways,
1:26.5	please sign up for the free gold nugget email newsletter at Awesome at Your Job.com.
1:30.8	I'm Pete McItis.
1:31.8	This is How to Be Awesome at Your Job.
1:33.3	And now, here's Mnou.
1:39.9	Manu, welcome.
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