Be a Cognitive Weightlifter
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Be a cognitive weightlifter.
Thinking is basically activating and manipulating chunks of information.
Chunks are cognitive musculature.
Better thinkers have bigger chunks (and they’re better organized and more readily retrievable).
Here’s how to build big chunks:
Retrieve information from memory, unassisted.
You lift information up off the ground of long-term memory and raise it into working memory.
And as it gets easier…
You make the chunks bigger and the retrieval conditions harder:
- longer spacing,
- less priming,
- time constraints.
That’s the cognitive equivalent of adding weight to the bar.
Further reading: How To Do Cognitive Weightlifting .
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