How Learning Actually Works

Everything you think you know about learning is probably wrong. The neuroscience of how we actually acquire and retain knowledge.

<p><strong>Everything you think you know about learning is probably wrong. The neuroscience of how we actually acquire and retain knowledge.</strong></p><p>A frustrated student's complaint about forgetting everything leads us into the counterintuitive science of learning. We discover why difficulty enhances retention, why cramming fails, and why the best learning often feels like the worst.</p><p>Why you must learn knowledge slowly. This episode reveals the neuroscience of effective learning and why our educational system gets it backwards.</p>