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The 2 Sigma Problem

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Adam Gordon Bell

May 2nd

Hey!

Do you recognize this man?

Well, he has some things to teach us about learning in the latest episode:

​https://corecursive.com/the-power-of-context/​

Todays' podcast episode is about how to learn hard things. Guest Steve Krouse ( not pictured ) was a struggling student when he joined an after school program based around programming and some revolutionary teaching methods.

That after school program changed his life in pretty profound ways.

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Today's episode is all about learning in context

Context is decisive. If you’re in math land, you learn math. If you’re in France, you learn French. And if you wanna learn a thing, really all you have to do is put yourself in a context where you will naturally learn that thing.
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And for the vast majority of us, we’re not in that context. Otherwise, we would have already learned that thing naturally.
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Yeah, you could self-flagellate yourself into doing it, or you could do the Duolingo thing, which is like, video gamify yourself into learning some simulacra of it, or you cannot learn it.
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But to me, either come to peace with the fact that you actually don’t care enough to learn it, or move your context.
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Like you have to actually put yourself into a new context where it will happen naturally, or we’re just fooling ourselves. You’re not gonna do this thing.
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Like you have to actually put yourself into a new context where it will happen naturally, or we’re just fooling ourselves. You’re not gonna do this thing.

You should give it a listen.
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