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welcome to the khatky ride home for friday February 5th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird.

How learning to juggle is the perfect example of what happens to your brain when you learn a new skill.

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on yesterday's story about the fetus album, a three-year-old has written a completely

delightful new album with her dad. Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

So you've seen the videos of what your brain looks like on drugs, but what about your

brain on juggling?

In a new book called Beginners, the Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning,

writer Tom Vanderbilt embarked on a one-year experiment of learning several different

new skills, including juggling. He spoke with experts along the way to better understand the

psychology of how we learn, especially as adult beginners. Wired ran an excerpt from the book

that recounts Vanderbilt's experience learning to juggle, and I found some of the insights fascinating. So juggling, it turns out, is an exceptionally good way to study how humans learn.

In fact, it's been used in a number of studies over the years, including the one that popularized

the idea of the learning curve. Here's what makes it so perfect for studying how humans learn. It can be done

in a lab. It's easily measured. You know, you drop balls or not, how many can you juggle.

Most people don't already know how to do it so they can learn it during the study in the lab,

and it's something that isn't so hard it will make people want to quit. At least that's what Peter

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