The Biggest Lever You Can Pull to Make Learning Fun is to Not Overwhelm the Learner

I know the capabilities of modern AI might make you feel insecure if you’re at the novice stage of any skill or line of work. Like anything you learn how to do, AI will soon do better.

A lot of people don’t realize that “deliberate practice” has a strict definition. Most forms of practice don’t qualify as deliberate practice. It’s more than just practicing “deliberately” or “on purpose.”

No, you don’t need 10,000 hours to learn math. Math Academy’s foundations series that goes from fractions to first-year university is benchmarked about 15,000 XP, about 250 hours of focused work. Of course, there’s plenty of university math to dig your teeth into after that, but that’s the order of magnitude of work we’re talking.

Link to Podcast Below is a smoothed version of the raw transcript. ∗     ∗     ∗ DeGatchi: GMGM everyone, my name’s DeGatchi, the host of Scripting Bits. For the first time ever on this podcast, we’re doing a repeat with Justin Skycak. For those that have not listened to their last podcast, it was Episode 102: Learning Mathematics Like an...

Learning is a positive change in long-term memory. By creating strategic connections between neurons, the brain can more easily, quickly, accurately, and reliably activate more intricate patterns of neurons. Wiring induces a "domino effect" by which entire patterns of neurons are automatically activated as a result of initially activating a much...