Dr. Cal Newport
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Deconstruct experiment.
And active recall was the thing that turned me all around.
And so I went from a pretty good student to 4.0 every single quarter, sophomore year, junior year, senior year.
I got one A-minus between my sophomore year through my senior year.
It was like this miraculous transformation.
It was active recall.
I rebuilt all of my studying.
So if it was for a humanities class, I had a whole way of taking notes that was all built around doing active recall.
For math classes, my main study tool was a stack of white paper.
All right, do this proof, white piece of paper.
And just can I do it from scratch?
If I could, I know that technique.
If I don't, all right, I'm going to come back and try it again later.
Completely transformed.
You know, I did so well academically, that's why I ended up writing that book.
to basically spread that message to other people.
So I'm a huge advocate for active recall.
It's really hard, but it is the way to learn new things.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, it was a problem.