#17 Dr. Henry Roediger: Why Everything You Know About Learning Is Wrong — And What Actually Works

In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Henry Roediger: professor, cognitive psychologist, and co-author of the book that changed how the world learns: Make It Stick.

This conversation is a deep dive into the science of memory, why struggling is the secret ingredient to retention, and how decades of research are finally being used to transform schools, businesses, and individual lives.

Whether you're memorizing a wine list, studying anatomy, or just trying to stop forgetting everything you read—this episode will change how you learn, forever.

Expect to Learn:

• Why re-reading and highlighting are not learning.
• The one technique that improves memory faster than anything else. 
• Why struggle and failure actually accelerate learning.
• How Make It Stick became required reading at Harvard Medical School.
• How memory works at the personal and collective level.
• What servers and med students surprisingly have in common.
• How Dr. Roediger uses his own research in everyday life (including remembering movies).
• The upcoming sequel: Make It Work and why it matters now more than ever

Links: ⁠⁠

• ⁠Make It Stick⁠⁠ ⁠
• ⁠⁠⁠More on Dr. Roediger’s research⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠
• ⁠The James S. McDonnell Foundation⁠⁠⁠

Service starts now.

I talk to people in and around the service industry space, and people that I wish I could have heard from when I was coming up in restaurants. Altogether I am trying to make sense of this wild, beautiful mess of a life, and help others that are feeling similarly confused and/or lost.

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As always, I’m just here taking notes, trying to figure out what it all means.

Cheers