600: Scientific Strategies to Make Learning Stick with Sanjay Sarma and Luke Yoquinto

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How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 27 August 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Sanjay Sarma and Luke Yoquinto share practical insights on how to optimize your learning.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Three simple tactics that drastically improve how we learn

2) Why you want the learning process to be difficult

3) How to get into the optimal mental state for learning

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— ABOUT SANJAY & LUKE —

Sanjay Sarma is the head of Open Learning at MIT. A professor of mechanical engineering by training, he has worked in the fields of energy and transportation; computational geometry; computer assisted design; and has been a pioneer in RFID technology. He has an undergraduate degree from IIT Kanpur as well as advanced degrees from Carnegie Mellon and UC Berkeley.

Luke Yoquinto is a science writer who covers learning and education, as well as aging and demographic change in his role as a researcher at the MIT AgeLab. His work can be found in publications such as The Washington Post, Slate, The Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic. He is a graduate of Boston University's science journalism program.

• Book: Grasp: The Science Transforming How We Learn

• Luke’s email: lyoquinto@gmail.com

• Luke’s Twitter: @lukeyoquinto

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Technique: Feynman blank page technique

• Tool: Quizlet

• Language Learning: Duolingo

• Language Learning: Rosetta Stone

• Online School: Khan Academy

• Book: Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade by Robert Cialdini

• Book: Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts by Stanislas Dehaene

• Book: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

• Researchers: Robert and Elizabeth Bjork

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.
0:10.0	Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.
0:14.0	With your host, Pete McKitis.
0:16.2	Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 600.
0:23.0	Do-to-do-to-do!
0:24.4	Wow, thank you so much for listening and sharing
0:27.4	and making this show what it is.
0:28.7	It's just a real treat to get to serve you
0:31.1	and to hear your feedback and requests and keep making something that you find valuable.
0:36.2	So thank you.
0:37.2	I look forward to the next 600 episodes and I very much appreciate you here.
0:42.4	We're going a little bit meta here for episode 600. We're talking about learning how to learn all the better.
0:48.8	We got two real pros experts on the topic and you'll learn one three simple tactics that drastically improve
0:55.9	how we learn to why you want the learning process to be difficult and three how to get
1:01.4	into the optimal mental state for learning.
1:03.6	So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to as we've referenced,
1:07.1	check out awesome at your job.com slash EP 600.
1:10.8	And if you're visiting awesome at your job.
1:12.0	com, here's a great learning tool we got for you.
1:14.0	It's called the Gold Nuggets.
1:15.0	This provides summary wisdom from Sanjay and Luke
1:20.0	and all the guests who've gone before them
	...

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