And I'm not talking, hey, I've got to be an Olympic weight-lifter, or be a marathon runner. Flashcards are for ordinary-- for learning in math and science, for example.
But he was also going home and, before blowing out his candle, working through his Persian flashcards . And I think those two things, those two images, of this person are really instructive.Holding them together is very instructive.
And I'm not talking, hey, I've got to be an Olympic weight-lifter, or be a marathon runner. And use flashcards . Flashcards are not just for language learners.
And the only difference between the two groups was that one group used flash cards that had both words spelled out entirely-- hot, cold-- the other had flashcards that just had the first word, "hot," but then provided only the first letter of the second word, so "c." And what they found was that indeed, the people who used the full words remembered much fewer of the antonyms
There's a chapter on-- anybody here from Google Geo? I had two sets of flashcards .
They like and they crave repetition. The repetitive work of looking at the flashcards or doing other things is something that they're drawn to and that they crave. The language of addiction comes up quite a lot, that with people who don't do this, they get a little agitated.
So when you think about that as an analogy, our goal is to build an assessment that, even if you've seen some YouTube videos online, Maybe their parents are working three jobs and can't do flashcards over dinner.
defensive linemen, plopping out there. And the Uber Moms are cutting the umbilical cords themselves and flashing little Mandarin flashcards at the things to get them ready. And then, of course, the kids go off to become the junior workaholics of America. And then when they start talking about shopping, often it ends up as consumption. And so we shop
And so what I used to do was go to the gym, hang from a chin-up bar, hold the top of a plank, push a sled, and have a trainer quiz me on my flashcards that I was creating. And it basically-- it didn't train me to not have the stress response because that's
You've probably seen them. If there's not enough math drill, you can have flashcards at home. If there's not a foreign language, you can take the whole family to France for three months for the price of private school tuition.
There's a chapter on-- anybody here from Google Geo? I don't drink. But "Jeopardy" always has the "potent potable." So I have all these flashcards .
But you take apart the packets, and on each slip-- there's collections of slips of paper, and on one side is written a word in one language, and on the other side is written another word. I went, "My God, it's Mezzofanti's flashcards !" So the common notion of the polyglot or the hyperpolyglot or the talented person is that they get this stuff by osmosis, but in his case, anyway, it turns out to involve quite a lot of hard work and repetitive work.
And we know that even if you put a couple of sentences in an AI chatbot and then it writes the essay, I put it in learn LLM, I made a podcast, I made flashcards , I made and she's like, got her whole incredible.
She had an errand to run. But in reality, because of that guilt, we're going home and being with our kids every second we can and trying to go do flashcards with our babies