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The two-step learning process

How do we learn things? We read, we attend lectures, we listen while others share experiences. It’s all good! And yet there are times when, despite hearing something over and over again, it just never seems to really click. Conversely, we sometimes do things over and over again and never seem to learn. Our experiences [...]

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Experience: does it matter?

Whenever we need to hire a psychologist at the institute, the directors invariably ask me to select someone with experience, at least five years if possible. When they do so, I usually ask them to think of the worst professor they had in university, and how much experience that person had. The usual answer is: [...]

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