#530: Evidence-based Strategies for Learning & Skill Acquisition – Scott Young

Sigma Nutrition Radio

Danny Lennon

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🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The concept of “learning how to learn” focuses on meta-learning, which involves improving one’s own learning strategies. Instead of just absorbing information, meta-learners refine the skills that make learning itself more effective.

Cognitive science supports various learning strategies by exploring how the brain processes information. Techniques such as spaced repetition, active recall, and interleaving can improve long-term retention and understanding.

Improving abilities in specialized areas, like reading and interpreting research, involves strategic approaches. Similarly, becoming more knowledgeable about nutrition requires staying updated with the latest research and critically evaluating findings to boost proficiency and confidence in the field.

In this podcast episode, Scott Young discusses these themes, offering insights from his work on learning optimization. He shares practical methods for improving learning efficiency, particularly in reading research and expanding knowledge in nutrition. Scott’s expertise provides a valuable framework for enhancing cognitive abilities and achieving more effective learning outcomes.

Timestamps

02:13 Introduction to Topic
04:41 Conversation with Scott Young Begins
06:56 Insights on Learning and Cognitive Science
12:42 Effective Learning Strategies
20:27 Overcoming Mental Barriers
31:14 Effective Teaching Strategies
35:14 The Importance of Feedback in Learning
38:52 Optimizing Your Learning Environment
44:29 Translating Complex Information for a General Audience
52:32 Key Ideas (Premium-Only)

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio.
0:16.6	This is episode 530 of the podcast.
0:19.9	You're very welcome.
0:21.1	I'm your host, Danny Lennon, and today we've got another discussion coming up for you
0:25.6	that I think you will find interesting, albeit a bit different from typically what we do.
0:30.7	Before we get to that, just to let you know that we've got a couple of favorite episodes of mine
0:35.0	coming up over the next couple of weeks.
0:37.1	Alan and I are going
0:38.5	to be doing an episode all about concepts related to correlation and causation and trying to
0:44.0	untangle some of really what can often be misinterpreted as a throwaway line that we often hear
0:50.9	of, oh, correlation is not causation, but without really further explaining what
0:55.4	we mean by those terms or misunderstanding how we should use those ideas to come to better
1:01.0	conclusion. So we've got an episode that we're going to have coming for you over the next
1:04.6	couple of weeks. We've also got a special episode that Alan will be giving all about work
1:10.5	that he's been doing and has some
1:13.0	couple of papers published on related to timing of eating, how this impacts calorie
1:19.5	distribution across the day, and a bunch of these other ideas that we've touched on in
1:23.6	different places across on the podcast, but to really formalize some of this, which I think
1:28.2	you guys are going to absolutely love. So that will be a premium exclusive episode for those
1:32.8	you who are premium subscribers. That will be coming over the next week or two. And if you are
1:37.8	interested in being a premium subscriber and getting these exclusive premium only episodes,
1:43.8	like that one that I've just mentioned,
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