Study guide
Learning How to Learn study guide
Learning is one of the few skills that improves every other skill. Almost nobody is taught how it works.
- Modules
- 7 modules
- Lessons
- 48 lessons
- Estimated time
- ~10-14 hours
- Key terms
- 93 key terms
How to work through it
- 1. Follow the order below. The modules build on each other — start at the top and work down.
- 2. Recall before you re-read. After each lesson, try to explain the idea from memory, then check yourself with the flashcards.
- 3. Test at the end of each module. The quizzes below show what stuck and what to review.
Full lesson outline
Module 1. How Learning Works
Module 2. Becoming a Better Learner
Module 3. Mastery and Lifelong Learning
Module 4. Learning Anything
Module 5. Learning Smarter
Module 6. Learning in the Age of AI
Practise & review
- Glossary93 terms defined in plain language
- FlashcardsDrill the vocabulary with active recall
- How Learning Works quiz12 questions, graded instantly
- Becoming a Better Learner quiz13 questions, graded instantly
- Mastery and Lifelong Learning quiz14 questions, graded instantly
- Learning Anything quiz14 questions, graded instantly
- Learning Smarter quiz14 questions, graded instantly
- Learning in the Age of AI quiz14 questions, graded instantly
- Teaching and Sharing Knowledge quiz14 questions, graded instantly
- GPA calculatorFree learning tool
Key terms
The vocabulary you’ll meet, each linked to its full definition in the glossary.
- Active reading
- AI tutor
- Attention residue
- Automaticity
- Calibration
- Chunking
- Cognitive load
- Cognitive offloading
- Cognitive reserve
- Community of practice
- Comprehensible input
- Consolidation
- Convergent thinking
- Cued recall
- Curiosity
- Deep work
- Deliberate practice
- Desirable difficulty
- Divergent thinking
- Durable learning
- Effective feedback
- Elaboration
- Elaborative interrogation
- Encoding
- Experiential learning
- Extraneous load
- Far transfer
- Feedback
- Feynman technique
- Flow
- Fluency illusion
- Forgetting curve
- Free recall
- Friction
- Generation effect
- Germane load
- Google effect
- Growth mindset
- Habit
- Hypercorrection effect
- Illusion of competence
- Illusion of explanatory depth
- Immersion
- Interleaving
- Intrinsic load
- Judgement of learning
- Learning
- Learning styles myth
- Legitimate peripheral participation
- Long-term memory
- Massed practice
- Math anxiety
- Memory consolidation
- Mental model
- Metacognition
- Method of loci
- Misconception
- Mnemonic
- Near transfer
- Neuroplasticity
- Performance
- Procedural memory
- Procrastination
- Productive failure
- Productive struggle
- Protégé effect
- Recall
- Recognition
- Reconstruction
- Recovery rule
- Reflection
- Retrieval
- Retrieval cue
- Retrieval practice
- Scaffolding
- Schema
- Second brain
- Self-directed learning
- Self-explanation
- Self-regulated learning
- Spaced repetition
- Spacing effect
- Split attention
- Storage
- Task switching
- Teacher's mindset
- Testing effect
- Transfer
- Transfer of learning
- Unlearning
- Working memory
- Zettelkasten
- Zone of proximal development