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Original Post: The WTF learning principle
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Feed Description: The Creating Passionate Users bloggers are all authors of bestseller Head First books. They're all passionate about the brain and metacognition, most especially--how the brain works and how to exploit it for better learning and memory.
The best learning happens when you're surprised... when you don't get what you expect. (I talked about this earlier in getting what you expect is boring.) The brain is a prediction machine. It's constantly scanning to make sure that...