Justus Frank: Life Of Learning

'Ultralearning' is a book by Scott Young. I listened to an interview with him recently and was interested in how he talked about quite a few concepts that we have in traditional school and yet had reimagined them.

He’s got an interesting story of learning which includes completing an MIT computer science under-graduate degree in under a year, and spending a year learning 4 new languages by living for 3 months at a time in Spain, Brazil, China, and South Korea.

In this podcast I talk about the concepts of doing drills, testing and learning by doing.

Article mentioned: Why Children Gravitate to Video Games

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In a recent book that I read called, "The Orchid And The Dandelion", the author Dr. Thomas Boyce points out that in classrooms where teachers take a more egalitarian approach the detrimental effects of dominance hierarchies can be diminished on sensitive children in particular.

But is egalitarianism the best alternative to dominance hierarchies? Are hierarchies all bad?

I introduce the idea of voluntary hierarchies.

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The central proposition of the book “The Orchid And The Dandelion: Why some people struggle and how all can thrive”, is that people, and children in particular, have different sensitivities. Through a variety of research experiments by Dr Thomas Boyce and his team, children were plotted on a spectrum of highly sensitive children to highly resilient children. Most children fell into the resilient category. They were named the ‘dandelion’ children, as they had only mild reactions to the stresses that they were exposed to in the experiments. But some children were what Boyce called ‘orchid’ children. These children were highly reactive to the minor stresses in the tests.

Things became interesting when Boyce dug deeper into the lives of orchid and dandelion children. He noticed that orchid children were overrepresented amongst those children most susceptible to a variety of illnesses, bullying and several other adverse outcomes in the period studied. However, he also discovered that some orchid children were the most healthy children in the entire study group.

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"Our personal language is what we use to express our feelings, reactions, and needs and set our limits."

"The nucleus of a personal language is:

I want to. I don't want to.

I like. I don't like.

I will. I will not."

"(Personal language must not be confused with the type of quasi-personal language that has evolved in the past 25 years, which is psychological in origin and is based on the notion that people need to "talk about their feelings." Using this language, it is possible, to a certain extent, to describe oneself to others, but this language lacks the liberating and contact intensifying power of personal language. Statements starting with the expression, "I feel..." rarely take on the same personal intensity as saying I want). Talking about our feelings might have a certain social value but for our mental health as well as for the quality of our relationships with people we love and care about the ability to express ourselves verbally and emotionally is far more important. "

from: Raising Competent Children by Jesper Juul

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There's been a few different things that have come together over the last days regarding safety and risk. From hearing about car accidents, to the uptake or lack of uptake in earthquake safety research, to quite a few conversations with people in the community regarding the recent speed sign changes in my area. All these came together and I ask the questions;

How close do we need to be to a situation in order to learn from it?

and

Do we need others to manage our safety?

Articles mentioned:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/04/removal-road-markings-safer-fewer-accidents-drivers

https://fee.org/articles/are-seat-belts-making-you-less-safe/

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A straw-man is an intentionally weak summarisation of an opponents argument so that it can be easily knocked down, hence straw-man.

The opposite of a straw-man is a steel-man.

You can achieve a steel-man by listening, without interruption, to your opponent’s complete argument. You then restate their argument as faithfully and as strongly as you possibly can.

This is my attempt to steel-man what seems to be the best and most current "abortion is not wrong" position and then seek to give my thoughts on these arguments.

This podcast is a continuation of my previous podcast on the dehumanisation of children. See https://anchor.fm/justus-frank/episodes/How-We-Dehumanise-Children-Ep-29-e96oam

For the debate referenced between Matt Dillahunty and Kristine Kruszelnicki see: https://youtu.be/PCg8Kb2qpg0

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In my previous episode I discussed how children are able to add in meaningful ways to our lives. There is a common idea that children have not reached full 'human-hood' yet and this seems to foster the way we dehumanise children. I also make links with the other ways humans have sought to dehumanise other humans in the past whether in times of war (e.g. the way that nazis thought about jews)  or in slavery which has occurred globally and throughout human history.

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I came across a neat little podcast series called "How To Raise A Parent" which is all about the surprising life skills our kids can teach us and the importance of staying connected to the innocence of childhood.

The second episode regarding the creativity of children contained some particularly meaningful thoughts and ideas.

Listen to the podcast series here: http://partners.slate.com/how-to-raise-a-parent-podcast/p/1

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"People like to base things on language because you can manipulate the hell out of language... But you can’t manipulate reality..."

"The only thing that matters is the integrity of our actions...The integrity you embody"

"That freedom [which you embody] will either attract people or it will anger people. It will do nothing in between. But if it attracts them they will come to you and ask; how did you..."

I've made quite a few podcasts on the limitations of language and this podcast seeks to explore this topic further.

Resources:

The Voluntary Life https://thevoluntarylife.com/

How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World: A Handbook for Personal Liberty

by Harry Browne https://www.amazon.com/How-Found-Freedom-Unfree-World/dp/0965603679

The Limitations Of Language https://anchor.fm/justus-frank/episodes/The-Limitations-Of-Language-Ep-21-e919m9

Living Free in an Unfree World: Stefan Molyneux at Libertopia 2010 https://youtu.be/OLSkhR-ve8s

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Just finished listening to a neat little audiobook by William Finnegan called "Climbing With Mollie".  It's a beautiful story of a father's journey into letting go of forcing his daughter to do what he thought she should be doing and instead joining her in her self-discovered talent for climbing. The effect this had on their relationship holds a good few lessons on the types of deeper relationships that adults and children can have to foster real learning and personal growth.

It's currently a free audiobook if you are an audible member. https://www.audible.com/pd/Climbing-with-Mollie-Audiobook/B07YXCPNX4

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