Learning Techniques

I find it a little difficult to believe that expertise is 'merely' pattern-matching. And yet it seems to have resulted in the some of my best learning outcomes over the past year. A look at my scepticism, in the context of several ideas we've covered in this blog.

A summary of everything a practitioner needs to know about memory retention when learning, in the pursuit of building career moats.

In which we examine a logical extension of the idea that humans are built to learn from stories. If we're so attuned to stories, can we use this to acquire better career skills, and at a faster pace?

Perceptual exposure is a learning technique that uses the brain's ability to pattern match against deep perceptual cues.

I tried reading a book a week last year. Here's what I learnt, what I found surprising, and what I'm taking forwards.

Have you ever tried putting deliberate practice to practice? If you have, it's likely that you'll have noticed just how difficult it is to apply deliberate practice principles to your career. Anyone that tells you otherwise is lying; here's why.

Introducing the perceptual exposure playlist — a first attempt at putting perceptual learning to practice.

I tried applying the techniques from Amy Hoy's Just F*cking Ship to an overdue project. Here's what I learnt.

Stanford professor BJ Fogg's course on habit design is practical, free, and a marvel of psych-driven education design. My recommendation: try it for yourself and see.

An audit of all the self help techniques I've written about in the past six months — and how they've fared as I applied them to my life.