The OverAnalyzers

We've all had moments where we're just on fire, and it feels like we can't lose. But how do you get there? What should you do when you are performing well, and what should you do when you aren't?

We take school and courses for granted as "just how we learn", but there might be something very wrong with them. Are courses really such a bad way to learn? If you're stuck having to do courses, how do you make sure you actually get something out of them?

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Almost every piece of information you encounter will be forgotten. How do you fix that? School doesn't teach us how. And everyone has heard of spaced repetition, but why does no one use it? What are we doing wrong?

We have a Spaced Repetition channel on our DISCORD: https://discord.gg/tfvVUxk45M

Mike and Dan discuss their new philosophy: If you learn something and then forget it, you wasted your time. But is that really true? And if you spend all your time updating your mental model with new cues and responses, wouldn't that lead to a completely deterministic approach? What about creativity and expressing yourself?

Non-declarative information in amnesiacs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesia#Non-declarative_information

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You waste more time than you think. Whether it's forgetting what you learned, getting stuck in "purgatory", or mistaking menial tasks for skill acquisition; there's a lot to improve upon.

This week, Mike and Dan discuss why taking a break from the podcast sucked, how memory is all about understanding cues and responses, and how some of the most important things to remember are hard to put into words, so you should invent stupid names for them.

We finished our "season 1". We think we know what we're about now.

Some things are easy to learn, and some things are hard. The trick is to make the hard things feel like the easy things.

The OverAnalyzers DISCORD: https://discord.gg/p5S3nPCvGb

Mike's STARCRAFT twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/care_again

Dan's ART YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtJBZL_ZOsc2BThP2QaEDjg

Dan's List:

1. What would it look like if you did it the right way? (Mental Model)

2. Are you focused? (Don't kid yourself)

3. Are you doing the same things? (If it works, keep doing it. If it doesn't work, stop doing it.)

4. Are you in your comfort zone? (Are you afraid of something? do that.)

5. Can you simplify it? Can you simplify it further? (Plot a route.)

6. Plan to forget. (Because you will)

* Expect Failure.

Bruce Lee: Be Like Water https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APx2yFA0-B4

Sunk Cost Fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost

PEAK: The Secrets From the New Science of Expertise https://www.amazon.com/Peak-Secrets-New-Science-Expertise/dp/0544947223/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1618845499&sr=8-1

The OverAnalyzers DISCORD: https://discord.gg/p5S3nPCvGb

Mike's twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/care_again

Dan's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtJBZL_ZOsc2BThP2QaEDjg

Memory Palace, Method of Loci: https://memoryjohn.com/the-memory-palace-a-short-history-and-how-to/

Anki (spaced repetition flash card system): https://apps.ankiweb.net/

Major system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonic_major_system

Dominic system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_system

The MIT monkey study: https://news.mit.edu/2009/successes-0729

James Gourney on failure: http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2015/12/is-failure-key-to-success.html?m=1