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Effective learning is effortful, but not all effort is effective: the key to learning is optimizing effort, not maximizing it.
Drawn from what Scott H. Young said
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- Scott H. Young Canadian writer on learning who taught himself MIT's…
This suggests the key to successful learning is about optimizing effort, not maximizing it. A better maxim might be that effective learning is effortful, but not all effort is effective.
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↗The Simple Method That Boosts Memory by 50%scotthyoung.com
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