Chief Quant, Director of Analytics at Math Academy. Posts about learning, upskilling, math education, Math Academy, and more generally, stages 2-3 of Bloom's talent development process in hierarchical skill domains.
New on JustinMath.com - GPS Brain; The goal isn’t to think faster -- it’s to need less thinking.
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Hey! You're receiving this email because you requested to be notified about new posts at JustinMath.com. __________ #1The goal isn’t to think faster. It’s to need less thinking.Imagine I ask you: what’s 2 + 2?
You don’t think.
You just know.
Now imagine I ask: what’s 478 × 63?
Now your brain has to work.
Automaticity is when a skill becomes like 2 + 2 instead of 478 × 63.
Your brain doesn’t have to spend effort figuring it out anymore. It just does it.
That’s important because your brain has limited mental bandwidth.
If all of it is being spent trying to remember or re-derive the basics, there’s none left for solving the tough problem.
It’s like trying to write a novel while you’re still sounding out every word.
The better your fundamentals become, the less effort they require.
And the less effort they require, the more difficult problems you become capable of solving.
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__________ #2GPS BrainMany learners have GPS Brain.
Looking up information too quickly is like driving everywhere with GPS.
You’ll reach your destination.
But you’ll never actually learn the city.
Use the map the first time.
After that, treat reference material like roadside assistance.
Only call when you’re stranded.
Otherwise, navigate from memory.
That’s how you build an internal map.
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__________ #3Spaced repetition is progressive overload for your brain.Most people think forgetting is the enemy of learning.
It’s actually part of the process.
If you review something immediately, your brain doesn’t have to work very hard.
But if you wait until the memory is fuzzy…
Now you have resistance.
You’re pulling information out of long-term memory.
That effort is the rep.
Spaced repetition is basically progressive overload for your brain.
The goal isn’t to make review easy.
The goal is to make yourself strong enough that what used to be hard becomes easy.
The wait creates the weight.
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Justin Skycak
Chief Quant, Director of Analytics at Math Academy. Posts about learning, upskilling, math education, Math Academy, and more generally, stages 2-3 of Bloom's talent development process in hierarchical skill domains.
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