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10 Mental Models for Learning

Scott Young 50,313 lượt xem 2 years ago
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A mental model is a general idea that can be used to explain many different phenomena. Supply and demand in economics, natural selection in biology, recursion in computer science, or proof by induction in mathematics—these models are everywhere once you know to look for them.

Just as understanding supply and demand helps you reason about economics problems, understanding mental models of learning will make it easier to think about learning problems.

Unfortunately, learning is rarely taught as a class on its own—meaning most of these mental models are known only to specialists.

0:00 - Introduction
0:42 - Problem-Solving is Search
2:09 - Memory Strengthens by Retrieval
3:08 - Knowledge Grows Exponentially
4:04 - Creativity is Mostly Copying
5:17 - Skills Are Specific
6:53 - Mental Bandwidth is Extremely Limited
8:15 - Success is the Best Teacher
9:02 - We Reason Through Examples
10:45 - Knowledge Becomes Invisible with Experience
11:52 - Relearning is Relatively Fast
13:37 - Outro

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