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How We Learn

By: Monisha Pasupathi, The Great Courses
Narrated by: Monisha Pasupathi
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Learning is a lifelong adventure.

It starts in your mother's womb, accelerates to high speed in infancy and childhood, and continues through every age. Whether you're actively engaged in mastering a new skill, intuitively discovering an unfamiliar place, or even sleeping - which is fundamental to helping you consolidate and hold on to what you've learned - you are truly born to learn around the clock. But few of us know how we learn, which is the key to learning and studying more effectively.

This series of 24 vibrant and accessible lectures has been designed to change that. Designed by an award-winning psychology teacher and expert on how people of all ages master new skills and information, it sheds light on what's going on when we learn and dispels common myths about the subject.

Professor Pasupathi's many examples cover the modern history of research on learning, from behaviorist theory in the early 20th century to the most recent debates about whether IQ can be separated from achievement - and even whether a spectrum of different learning styles and multiple intelligences really exists.

The lectures are also a rich source of readily implemented tips on how to excel in many different learning situations, including mastering difficult material, motivating children to learn, and preserving learning aptitude as we grow older.

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Psychology Psychology & Mental Health
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This course was wonderful to listen to. Monisha narrated well. She was engaging and passionate about what she had to say. The content was interesting and informative.

This course was wonderful to listen to.

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Great contribution to the great/good lecture series. I enjoyed it thoroughly. At times boring but still educational. Learned a lot about learning. I now wish I were young. At the age of 65 I suffer a great deal from Cognitive Bias (Dunning-Kruger Effect). Thus I think I am (cleverer) better than I am but I also that other people are dumb. This book make it all clear to me...I am old and stupid but not too old to learn!

A book about learning - opening your mind

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Highly recommend these lectures on learning. Every student should listen and learn this material. To help each individual with their metacognition. If you understand how your brain functions then you will be better skilled at learning and retaining information.

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