Newsletter Week 29 | 2021

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New video: How to use QuickAdd for Obsidian — with examplesA deep fascination with Obsidian led me to start creating plugins for it. This is a guide to my latest plugin, QuickAdd. You can also read a Q&A on my website.

New book notes: Make It Stick by Peter C. Brown — Summary & NotesPerhaps one of the and most comprehensive yet succinct books on learning I have read. The first many chapters of this book presented learning studies and summarized the latest research on learning. 

Augmenting Long-Term Memory

After reading Make It Stick, I stumbled upon an article I had saved called Augmenting Long-term Memory.

The article is rather long, but is the most interesting article I've read on spaced repetition.Nielsen describes how he uses spaced repetition to gain a deep understanding of fields foreign to him, and how we might do the same.

Just having read Make It Stick, Spaced Repetition was front and center in my mind as being arguably the most powerful technique for learning.So much so that Nielsen says “spaced repetition makes memory a choice.”

I highly recommend giving the article a read if learning is of any interest to you. I am researching learning and how we may optimize it for ourselves. Not only that, but I am planning an article series on the subject, as it is one of my long-standing passions. 

Being Self-Made

Arnold Schwarzenegger gets asked quite often what, as a self-made man, his blueprint for success is. The answer always shocks the person asking, because he says, “I am not a self-made man. I got a lot of help”.

Arnold, as he says, stood on the shoulders of giants. Joe Weider brought him to America and took him under his wing. Lucille Ball took a chance and let him guest star in a special, which he says is his first big break in Hollywood.

So he says; “So how can I ever claim to be self-made? To accept that mantle discounts every person and every piece of advice that got me here. And it gives the wrong impression — that you can do it alone. I couldn’t. And odds are, you can’t either.”

So when you are grateful for how far you have gotten, remember to be grateful also for every piece of advice you have ever received. Every man or woman who has ever helped you. For every inspired moment you have had because of another. Because without those, you wouldn’t be where you are today.

This was a section of my article, Stoic Wisdom: 11 Principles For A Better Life. 

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To your success. Regards,

Christian Bager Bach Houmann