You'll forget most of what you learn. What should you do about that?

This underscores an encouraging lesson: you don’t have to get it all right. You just have to be crystal clear on a few concepts.

Perhaps you can’t learn the “new” work, except through awareness—and then only for a moment. But notice how you forget it again, how you try, but fail to understand it, how you want to be wise and interpret, how you want to change and master the world. And finally, or rather, once again, when all else fails, realize that life itself teaches process

There are two pieces of advice I typically give to students who are in their final year of college. This may come as strange advice from someone who majored in electrical engineering and got a PhD in math modeling of computer security, but I first tell students I encounter to spend the remainder of their time in college filling their minds with the

Learning of historical precedent as well matters little, since we don’t learn in the same way from description as we do from experience. It’s something known as the description-experience gap.

Aha! That’s just where it gets interesting. Because in order to do something, in the how-to sense, you first have to understand exactly what it is you are doing, what (or who) you are doing it to, and under what conditions you are doing it . . . in the intellectual sense. Gagné’s research found that in order to really be able to do something (as op