Using Desirable Difficulties to Enhance Learning, Dr. Robert Bjork

[@moigescr]

The subtitling is poor and misleading in the beginning. Dr. Bjork actually says "things that made them uncomfortable and seemed to be slowing the rate of learning then actually enhanced long-term learning and memory." The subtitling says "things that made them uncomfortable and seemed to be slowing the rate of learning rather then (sic) actually enhanced long-term learning and memory" -- which is the complete opposite!

[@chinesemexican2940]

Could you give concrete examples for studying mass amounts of information on different topics that are (for the most part) unrelated? Specifically, how would you implement "Desirable Difficulties" into something like medicine, which has many independent sub-disciplines (e.g. Pediatrics, OB-Gyn, Neurology, Psych and Internal Medicine)?

[@shrutijindal1409]

I'm unsure if this suggestion would work for you but there's a way I do things too. I make my own notes and these notes are bilingual. So say my mother tongue is hindi but I understand English too. So when I'm preparing my own notes, it help me map the things I've written because I've sort of created a new pattern for my eyes to follow. I also do things in small packets and take a lot of gaps. So when I'm done with one, I move to next and rerevise the last I did. There are few other things I've tried on myself like while you're learning or reading say X topic, don't involve your brain into something that requires your cognitive skills Eg: checking messages on phone, watching TV, listening to the songs et cetera. These things make you difficult to be learn with much of distraction and difficulty.

[@coleburns5497]

I’d say put medical terms into questions like presuffix: It’s coming towards you, like pop ups from a pirating site for anime, A’LOT of pop ops are just coming straight to your face.

[@coleburns5497]

Another one would be: Single yet nothing, alone yet empty. Think of finding someone in the desert, but wants to be alone.

[@MsTranthihai71]

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