This week, UNC education professor Jeffrey Greene joins Aaron to discuss the process of learning – and why difficulty is actually a very good thing. “Desirable difficulties,” to be exact: we’re more likely to internalize, retain, and effectively apply what we learn when we find the subject kind of hard.

So how can we apply this for ourselves? Greene suggests testing yourself, asking yourself questions, or trying to explain things to others. (And don’t just rely on AI to do all the stuff you can’t figure out in three seconds.)

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