Steve Levitt
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962 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 31 Jul
Steve Levitt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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If we can get students engaged, we will have unbelievable results.
And if we don't, we are facing disaster.
Oh, it did for sure.
I mean, every idea that I have just put out there, I have stolen from one of my guests and repackaged it in my own words.
There's no doubt about that.
As it should be.
That's what knowledge transfer is supposed to be.
David Eagleman came on my podcast and he works on...
the plasticity of the brain.
That was such a good episode.
I love him.
He introduced me to this phrase of just-in-case learning versus just-in-time learning, which has transformed my way of thinking about the world because everything we do in school is, oh, well, we're going to teach you proofs about triangles because maybe you're going to, in 15 years, be an architect and somehow need this.
Of course that doesn't work because no one remembers it for five minutes versus just-in-time learning where somebody really needs to know something to solve some problem so they learn it.
For me, I spent 16 years failing to learn any math at all.
And then when I got admitted to MIT and I looked in those first syllabi at what I was going to have to know, I learned...
five years of math in three weeks because I needed to learn it.
I didn't have the words for it then, but I realized what just-in-time learning was.
Or another example, I fiddled around all through high school, didn't care about anything, did all my box checking.
And then when they opened a racetrack in Minnesota, Canterbury Downs, and I was losing all my money trying to bet on horses, I need to be better.
And that's when I decided I would really learn how to computer program.
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