Meta Learning Flashcards
What is meta learning?
Meta learning is learning about how to learn.
What are the 2 extremes in design and why should you study them?
Extremes can show you what you should be doing and what you shouldn’t do as the middle or average don’t show any clear or defined ideas.
Why is learning WHAT you study more important than HOW you study?
If you select the wrong material, textbook, group of words, you could be using the wrong resource that doesn’t consider your circumstances or isn’t designed for you specifically in mind. This could leave you confused or unable to fully learn the concept.
What are the 2 questions to think about when using a method for learning?
- Is the method effective? (Have you narrowed down your material to the highest frequency?)
- Is the method sustainable? (Have you chosen a schedule and subject matter that you can stick with until reaching fluency? Will you actually follow through with it?
What does DiSSS stand for?
Di: Deconstruction
S: Selection
S: Sequencing
S: Stakes
What does CaFE stand for?
Ca: Compression
F: Frequency
E: Encoding
What does Deconstruction mean in DiSSS?
What are the minimal learnable units, the Lego blocks I should be starting with?
What does Selection mean in DiSSS?
Which 20% of the blocks should I focus on for 80% or more of the outcome I want?
What does Sequencing mean in DiSSS?
In what order should I learn the blocks?
What does Stakes mean in DiSSS?
How do I set up stakes to create real consequences and guarantee I follow the program?
What does Compression mean in CaFE?
Can I encapsulate the most important 20% into an easily graspable one-pager?
What does Frequency mean in CaFE?
How frequently should I practice? Can I cram, what should my schedule look like? What growing pains can I predict? What is the minimum effective dose (MED) for volume?
What does Encoding mean in CaFE?
How do I anchor the new material to what I already know for rapid recall? (Acronyms like DiSSS and CaFE are examples of encoding)
What are the 4 primary tools used in Deconstruction and why?
- Reducing
- Interviewing
- Reversal
- Translating
We need to explore and throw alot at the wall to see what sticks. Flip things upside down and find outliers and look at what they are doing differently (and what they’re not doing at all). We need to answer the question: how do I break this skill into small, manageable peices.
What is Reducing in Deconstruction?
It is breaking down large concepts into small components, turning them into Lego pieces.
For example, Japanese character contain 1,945 characters with some being comprised up to 17 strokes. But breaking down the characters and focusing on the left, top, middle, and bottom helps create radicals. There are 214 radicals which help provide clues to the meaning and pronunciation of the character.
What is Interviewing in Deconstruction?
Creating a list of people to interview (namely people who were successful in their field 5-10 years ago). Then making first contact with additional detail/context about why your asking. Finally, create and ask your questions. Make sure the questions dive deep into the person’s experience with their craft and ask them things they would know.
What is Reversal in Deconstruction?
Doing the opposite of a purposed method for better results. Googling “backwards” “upside down” or “reverse” plus whatever the skill your deconstructing could lead you to the path of least resistance.
What is Translating in Deconstruction?
Taking a phrase your familiar with like the lords prayer or a 12-sentence audit then asking someone who speaks a different language to repeat and write it in their language to compare and decode.
What are failure points?
Patterns that explain why people quit studying the skill you are trying to learn. Also creates a guide for you to test yourself with in the future.
What are margins of safety?
When it doesn’t guarantee a good investment but allows room for error. Or how badly can you mangle a recipe book and still get something incredible. Or you make a profit when you buy the property not when you sell it.
Or for art-
What is MED? And why is it important for learning?
M- Minimal
E- Effective
D- Dose
Its purpose is finding the lowest frequency, the fewest changes that get us our desired results.
How is Selection used in DiSSS?
If you take the total of 250,000+ English words and remember 100 of the most common words, it gives you 50% of the practical use of 171,000 words.
Looking through what the most popular methods are for that skill and evaluating them with your margin of safety gives you the methods you should learn in what order.
How is Sequencing used in DiSSS?
A system with a clear progression. If form refers to the balance and shape, then sequence refers to the order the parts move in. Each exercise builds the previous one. Failure points were avoided. Skills are layered on top of each other one at a time.
How is Stakes used in DiSSS?
Creating follow-through out of fear of loss.
What is Compression in CaFE?
Simplify.
Making effective decisions and learning effectively requires massive elimination and removal of options.
Making something intimidating, intimidating so you don’t quit.
What are the 2 types of one pagers used for compression?
- Prescriptive one pager; lists the principles that help you generate real-world examples. In short: “Here are the rules”
- Practice one pager;
Which lists real-world examples to practice that indirectly teach the principles.
What is Frequency in CaFE?
Sugar high, day 4
Immediate drop and low point, day 7
Platue, day 11
Inflection point, day 21
Fluency, day 28
What is Encoding in CaFE?
Making slippery ideas stick.
