I had a fun conversation with about tools for thought, knowledge work, books, and so on. Listen in if you like! breaker.audio/venture-storie
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That was a great podcast!
When I was a student, 10 years ago, I had a revelation about how I’d think I’d changed through reading books, but when someone asked about it, couldn’t clearly articulate the learning.
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I was interested to hear you describe this too – the first time I’ve heard anyone else say quite the same thing about learning styles and memory.
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Re my own learning process, I eventually concluded what happened was I absorbed new understanding as a set of unarticulated principles in a way that was vague and unclear.
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So I started training myself to recall details and narratives to back up the learned principles. It’s a distinct type of retention that facilitates more conscious understanding, clearer articulation – exactly like you described in your conversation!
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The new principles were always ‘kind of’ there in the default learning style, but not consciously articulated.
Since then I experimented with all sorts of mnemonics, learning tools, logging and note-taking to change the nature of retention and my conscious access to it.
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Anki came quite late in that process for me. I started experimenting with it three years ago and was blasted away by its efficacy. It’s the single tool that has most enhanced my learning process.
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So it was inspiring to hear you talking about Anki, conscious learning processes and memory styles - it’s something I’ve thought a lot about over the years and am glad to hear publicly articulated. Thanks!
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Thank you for sharing your journey and for the kind words. I’m glad you’re finding approaches that help you!