# Learning

## [Experts vs. Imitators](https://fs.blog/experts-vs-imitators/)
If you want the highest quality information, you have to speak to the best people. The problem is many people claim to be experts, who really aren’t. Safeguard: Take time to distinguish real experts from imitators.

## [Let Go of the Learning Baggage](https://fs.blog/learning-baggage/)
We all want to learn better. That means retaining information, processing it, being able to use it when needed. More knowledge means better instincts; better insights into opportunities for both you and your organization.

## [Language: Why We Hear More Than Words](https://fs.blog/language-not-just-code/)
It’s a classic complaint in relationships, especially romantic ones: “She said she was okay with me forgetting her birthday! Then why is she throwing dishes in the kitchen? Are the two things related?

## [Math Makes Life Beautiful.](https://fs.blog/math-life-beautiful/)
Math has long been the language of science, engineering, and finance, but can math help you feel calm on a turbulent flight? Get a date? Make better decisions? Here are some heroic ways math shows up in our everyday life.

## [Advice for Young Scientists—and Curious People in General](https://fs.blog/advice-for-young-scientists/)
The Nobel Prize-winning biologist Peter Medawar (1915–1987) is best known for work that made the first organ transplants and skin grafts possible. Medawar was also a lively, witty writer who penned numerous books on science and philosophy.

## [The Ultimate Deliberate Practice Guide: How to Be the Best](https://fs.blog/deliberate-practice-guide/)
Everything You Need to Know to Improve Your Performance at Anything—For Beginners and Experts. Deliberate practice is the best technique for achieving expert performance in every field.

## [What Information Do You Need in Order to Change?](https://fs.blog/feedback-change/)
“Feedback is an effective tool for promoting efficient behavior: it enhances individuals’ awareness of choice consequences in complex settings.” —“Feedback and Efficient Behavior.”

## [The Feynman Learning Technique](https://fs.blog/feynman-learning-technique/)
The Feynman Technique is the best way to supercharge your learning. And it works no matter the subject. Devised by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman.

## [Why You Should Practice Failure](https://fs.blog/practice-failure/)
We learn valuable lessons when we experience failure and setbacks. Most of us wait for those failures to happen to us, however, instead of seeking them out.

## [We Are What We Remember](https://fs.blog/we-remember/)
Memory is an intrinsic part of our life experience. It is critical for learning, and without memories we would have no sense of self.

## [“Jootsing”: The Key to Creativity](https://fs.blog/jootsing/)
Creativity can seem like a mysterious process. But many of the most creative people understand that you can actually break it down into a simple formula, involving what researcher Douglas Hofstadter calls “jootsing.”

## [How Julia Child Used First Principles Thinking](https://fs.blog/how-julia-child-used-first-principles-thinking/)
There’s a big difference between knowing how to follow a recipe and knowing how to cook. If you can master the first principles within a domain, you can see much further.

## [Being Smart is Not Enough](https://fs.blog/being-smart-is-not-enough/)
When hiring a team, we tend to favor the geniuses who hatch innovative ideas, but overlook the butterflies, the crucial ones who share and implement them.

## [Stop Preparing For The Last Disaster](https://fs.blog/last-disaster/)
When something goes wrong, we often strive to be better prepared if the same thing happens again. A more effective approach is simply to prepare to be surprised by life.

## [Bad Arguments and How to Avoid Them](https://fs.blog/bad-arguments/)
Productive arguments serve two purposes: to open our minds to truths we couldn’t see — and help others do the same.

## [Muscular Bonding: How Dance Made Us Human](https://fs.blog/muscular-bonding/)
Do we dance simply for recreation? Or is there a primal urge that compels us to do it?

## [Why We Focus on Trivial Things: The Bikeshed Effect](https://fs.blog/bikeshed-effect/)
Bikeshedding is a metaphor to illustrate the strange tendency we have to spend excessive time on trivial matters.

## [Standing on the Shoulders of Giants](https://fs.blog/shoulders-of-giants/)
Innovation doesn’t occur in a vacuum. Doers and thinkers from Shakespeare to Jobs have liberally “stolen” inspiration from those who came before.

## [What You Truly Value](https://fs.blog/find-what-you-truly-value/)
Our devotion to our values gets tested in the face of a true crisis. But it’s also an opportunity to reconnect and recommit.

## [The Illusory Truth Effect: Why We Believe Fake News, Conspiracy Theories and Propaganda](https://fs.blog/illusory-truth-effect/)
When a “fact” tastes good and is repeated enough, we tend to believe it, no matter how false it may be.

## [The Power of Questions](https://fs.blog/power-questions/)
The quality of the answers we get are directly correlated with the quality of the questions we ask.

## [The Spacing Effect: How to Improve Learning and Maximize Retention](https://fs.blog/spacing-effect/)
The spacing effect is a far more effective way to learn and retain information that works with our brain instead of against it.

## [Double Loop Learning: Download New Skills and Information into Your Brain](https://fs.blog/double-loop-learning/)
Double loop learning is the quickest and most efficient way to learn anything that you want to “stick.”

## [Pain Plus Reflection Equals Progress](https://fs.blog/pain-reflection/)
Our most painful moments are also our most important. Rather than run from pain, we need to identify it, accept it, and learn how to use it.