The Science
The Thinking Behind the Ideas
Sometimes instinct and evidence part company: what ‘feels good’ can often be deceptively distinct from what actually works. These short articles offer a peek under the hood of the evidence that drives our practice, because we care about what works.
Mind the gap
Why learning spread out beats learning crammed in
The same amount of study produces far more durable learning spread across separate sessions than crammed into one, even though cramming feels more productive at the time.
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Strain it to retain it
Why the effort of remembering is what makes knowledge last
The act of retrieving something from memory changes that memory, so pulling information out builds more durable learning than putting the same information in again.
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The illusion of learning
Why ease is the least reliable signal that learning is happening
We judge whether we are learning by how the learning feels, and that feeling is often manufactured by things that have almost nothing to do with whether anything is being learned.
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Nothing ventured, nothing changed
Why adoption often stalls without anyone choosing to hold back
Almost every real decision includes the option of carrying on as we are, and that option gets chosen more often than its merits alone would explain.
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See how the science shapes the training.
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