#31 Barbara Oakley: Learning How to Learn

Welcome to the Fernham Street podcast called The Knowledge. I'm your host, Shane Parrish, the curator behind the Furnham Street blog. Which is an online community focused on mastering the best of what other people have already figured out. The Knowledge Project is where we talk with interesting people to uncover frameworks you can use to learn more and less time, make better decisions, and live a happier, more meaningful life. On this episode I have Barbara Oakley. She's a professor of engineering at Oakland University, the co-creator of the most popular online course on learning.

A speaker, the author of two books, a mind for numbers, and mind shift. This podcast is a near non-stop exploration of how we learn. We bought some myths about. How we learn. Offer effective strategies you can use today, and show you how everything from reading to memory to recall all fits together. What better way to master the best of what other people have already figured out than improving your ability to learn?

Enjoy the conversation. I've been waiting for this conversation for so long. I've been so excited about it. Well, I think we'll have a lot of fun here today. So first of all, you've worked as a Russian translator on Russians, you've taught in China, you were in the US Army as a signal officer. You are a radio operator in the South Pole, you're an engineer many times over, a professor, a writer many times over

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