From the course: Strategies to Learn and Upskill More Effectively
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Space your learning
From the course: Strategies to Learn and Upskill More Effectively
Space your learning
- Tell me if this sounds familiar. You're trying to learn something new, but you feel like you don't have a solid afternoon to dedicate to mastering your new skill. After all, practice makes perfect, so surely you need to do something over and over again, back to back to really master it. Well, not exactly. We are often tempted to do things over and over again immediately until we feel comfortable with that skill before moving on to something else. There are music apps that let you loop specific measures and tablature for guitar to help you really focus in and play that tricky measure on repeat. A nurse might write notes several times in a row to master the new procedure until they feel confident they've learned the steps. However, this back to back and intensive practice is called massed practice, and it is not the best way to learn. Instead, the best way to learn something in the long term is to spread out your learning…