#117 Dr. Barbara Oakley on Learning How to Learn

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Rebel with a Clause



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Motivation around learning and how to make progress when you
feel like you’re bad at something

Dr. Oakley’s 3 language survival tools

Advice Dr. Oakley would have given herself when she was
starting out with language learning

How to get back into a language you stopped learning

How Dr. Oakley would start learning a new language today

Dr. Oakley asks Benny what to do when a teacher assigns you
things that just don’t make sense for you personally



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Learning How to Learn MOOC

A Mind for Numbers

Mindshift

Benny’s Speak from Day 1 Method



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Learning How to Learn MOOC

A Mind for Numbers

Mindshift

Dr. Oakley’s website

Evil Genes

Benny’s Speak from Day 1 Method

Kumon

Smartick



Episode Overview


Some of the topics brought up during the interview are:


How Dr. Oakley got into learning how to learn

Joining the military to learn a new language at the Defense
Language Institute

Using the Speak from Day 1 Approach

How Dr. Oakley’s philosophies around language learning
influenced her learning in other fields

Working as a Russian translator on Soviet trawlers, teaching
in China, being an Army Captain in Germany, working as a radio
operator at the South Pole Station and how these things shaped Dr
Oakley’s perspectives

How teaching makes you a better learner through retrieval
practice

The story behind the MOOC “Learning How to Learn”

Tricks for encouraging your kids to love learning



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