Adam Mastroianni on Learning and Mostly Forgetting

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🗓️ 9 October 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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How much do we remember of what we learn in school or from conversation? Psychologist Adam Mastroianni says: from little to nothing much. What do our brains retain? Mastroianni argues that often it's a mix of emotions, meanings, and values that end up shaping who we are, what Mastroianni calls "vibes." Listen as he and EconTalk's Russ Roberts discuss the role of vibes in knowledge acquisition and the implications for how we teach, learn, and speak to those around us.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics
0:07.0	and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover
0:13.0	Institution.
0:14.0	Go to econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode and find links down
0:18.6	the information related to today's conversation.
0:21.6	You'll also find our archives with every episode we've done going back to 2006.
0:26.8	Our email address is mail at econtalk.org.
0:29.8	We'd love to hear from you.
0:37.8	Today is September 13th, 2023, and my guest is psychologist Adam Estriani.
0:43.4	His sub-stack is Experimental History.
0:46.8	I encourage you to read it, it is phenomenal.
0:49.5	This is his third appearance on econ talk.
0:52.3	He was last year, recently, in August of 2023, talking about how you can't reach the
0:58.2	brain through the ears, that is, how hard it is to tell someone something and then for
1:03.0	them to remember it, absorb it and apply it.
1:05.3	Today's conversation is a sequel and maybe also a prequel.
1:09.8	We're going to continue to talk about learning and the acquisition of wisdom and understanding
1:15.2	based on some other writing you've done, Adam, and if whatever we get to, we'll link
1:20.8	to, but we're going to start with an essay you wrote called, you'll forget most of what
1:27.0	you learn, what should you do about that.
1:30.1	Adam, welcome back to econtalk.
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