Deep and Durable Learning

Deep and Durable Learning

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Deep and Durable Learning episodes

  • A Way of Thinking: Answers and Actions

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    Real thinking involves chewing on a compelling question. Powerful answers invoke cause and effect. Those answers have immediate implications as well as long-term consequences and both of those lead to actions.

    22 min
  • A Way of Thinking: Chewing on Questions

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    Thinking is driven by questions. Questions are answered through the interaction of necessary assumptions, a fact base to which thinking is accountable, and—most of all—a conceptual framework. Conceptual frameworks harness the power of patterns to look for parallels that leverage past learning to solve present problems.

    24 min
  • A Way of Thinking: Perspective Produces Questions

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    Every area of human endeavor is an outworking of a way of thinking. We all default to a particular way of thinking, usually without recognizing it. This episode is designed to help you be intentional about where your conclusions are coming from. The core of your thinking is the combination of point-of-view, motivation (what you are trying to accomplish with the thinking), and questions you think this perspective can help to answer.

    20 min
  • Generous Enlightening Conversations

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    Great conversations are driven by empathetic listening that
    results in good questions. Good questions encourage the other person to open up and share. Good questions give the questioner an opportunity to learn from another person’s life experience. 

    In this episode my guest, Laura from Asia, characterizes being a good questioner as showing hospitality in search of personal connection.  

    32 min
  • It’s the Principle of the Thing

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    Principles are the power tools of thinking. Learn how to construct principles that satisfy your need for things to make sense. When something makes sense, you won’t have to struggle to remember it or to use it in problem-solving.
    24 min
  • Insight Through Induction

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    Finding a pattern in a collection of specifics through induction is the essence of the transformative insight that we call the "aha" moment. Learn how to increase the frequency and wattage of your lightbulb moments.
    23 min
  • Introduction to Induction

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    Pattern-recognition is the most extraordinary capability of the human brain. We use induction to formulate these regularities as our concept categories. This episode will demystify inductive reasoning to enable better thinking.
    22 min

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Most learning is superficial and fades quickly. This podcast will equip you to move to learning that is durable because it is deep. Deep learning lasts because it respects the way the brain works.…