@JaynitMakwana: SHOCKING: A professor who flunked math as a student became an engineering professor by reverse-engineering how learning…
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This article presents 10 Claude prompts based on Barbara Oakley's 'Learning How to Learn' course, which teaches evidence-based study techniques instead of ineffective methods like rereading and highlighting.
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SHOCKING: A professor who flunked math as a student became an engineering professor by reverse-engineering how learning actually works. Her course has been taken by 3 million people.
Her course “Learning How to Learn” is the most popular online course ever created. It’s not about what to learn. It’s about how your brain actually acquires skill.
Barbara Oakley hated math. Failed it repeatedly. Then she learned how to learn… and became a professor of engineering.
Most study advice is wrong. Rereading doesn’t work. Highlighting is useless. Your intuition about learning is lying to you.
I turned Oakley’s learning science into 10 Claude prompts.
You describe what you’re trying to learn… and it builds you a system based on how your brain actually works.
Here are all 10:
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