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Tim Ferriss's Learning Revolution: Master Any Skill Faster

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Discover how Tim Ferriss's DiSSS and CaFE frameworks can help you learn anything in record time. Drawing from cognitive psychology research by Brown and Roediger and neuroscience insights from Stanford's Dr. Andrew Huberman, this episode reveals why testing beats re-reading and how rest rewires your brain for optimal learning.

Tim Ferriss's Learning Revolution: Master Any Skill Faster
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Ultralearning
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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41951629
Test-Enhanced Learning: Taking Memory Tests Improves Long-Term Retention
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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01693.x
The Shuffling of Mathematics Practice Problems Boosts Learning
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https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/psy_facpub/1767/
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range%3A_Why_Generalists_Triumph_in_a_Specialized_World
Brief wakeful resting boosts new memories over the long term
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https://www.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797612441220
Retrieval Practice Produces More Learning than Elaborative Studying with Concept Mapping
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https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.1199327
Financial Incentive–Based Approaches for Weight Loss: A Randomized Trial
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https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/183047
Increased dopamine tone during meditation-induced change of consciousness
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11958969/
Atomic Habits
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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40121378-atomichabits
Tim Ferriss: Why you should define your fears instead of your goals
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https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_ferriss_why_you_should_define_your_fears_instead_of_your_goals
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22529564
The 4-Hour Workweek
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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/368593.The_4_Hour_Workweek
The 4-Hour Chef
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_4-Hour_Chef
Implementation intentions: Strong effects of simple plans
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https://nyuscholars.nyu.edu/en/publications/implementation-intentions-strong-effects-of-simple-plans
The Tim Ferriss Show #422: Fear-Setting: The Most Valuable Exercise I Do Every Month
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https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9814f3cc-1dc5-4003-b816-44a8eb6bf666/episodes/4898a218-3210-477c-b516-85298a9bb2c4/the-tim-ferriss-show-422-fear-setting-the-most-valuable-exercise-i-do-every-month
Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
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https://www.harpercollins.com/products/peak-anders-ericssonrobert-pool
Forget New Year’s Resolutions and Conduct a ‘Past Year Review’ Instead
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https://tim.blog/2021/12/27/past-year-review/
Dr. Andrew Huberman’s Guide to NSDR
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https://www.hubermanlab.com/nsdr
Commitment Devices
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https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev.economics.102308.124324
Fear-Setting: The Most Valuable Exercise I Do Every Month
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https://tim.blog/2017/05/15/fear-setting/
The Art of Learning
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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8216968-the-art-of-learning
Interleaved practice enhances memory and problem-solving ability in undergraduate physics
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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8589969/
The Art and Science of Learning Anything Faster (#191) — transcript
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https://tim.blog/2016/10/06/the-art-and-science-of-learning-anything-faster/
Exercise training increases size of hippocampus and improves memory
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https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1015950108
Modern Wisdom #780 — Tim Ferriss
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https://www.iheart.com/podcast/256-modern-wisdom-30936734/episode/780-tim-ferriss-the-173786897/
The Tim Ferriss Show #97: The Evolutionary Angel, Naval Ravikant
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https://podscribe.app/feeds/https-rssart19com-tim-ferriss-show/episodes/567eae29588a7829b4d7031c321ec114
Tim Ferriss: Smash fear, learn anything
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https://archive.org/details/TimFerriss_2008P
Huberman Lab Essentials: How to Learn Skills Faster
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https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/essentials-how-to-learn-skills-faster
Huberman Lab: How to Focus to Change Your Brain
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https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/how-to-focus-to-change-your-brain
The Tim Ferriss Show #708 (Repost): Dr. Andrew Huberman — A Neurobiologist on Optimizing Sleep, Enhancing Performance, Reducing Anxiety, Increasing Testosterone, and Using the Body to Control the Mind
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https://www.iheart.com/podcast/584-the-tim-ferriss-show-28292125/episode/708-dr-andrew-huberman-a-133214095/
Spacing Effects in Learning: A Temporal Ridgeline of Optimal Retention
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https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/psy_facpub/1766/
The 4-Hour Body
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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9421742-the-4-hour-body
Eduardo Briceño: How to get better at the things you care about
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https://www.ted.com/talks/eduardo_briceno_how_to_get_better_at_the_things_you_care_about
Improving Students’ Learning With Effective Learning Techniques
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https://journals.sagepub.com/stoken/rbtfl/Z10jaVH/60XQM/full
Distributed practice in verbal recall tasks: A review and quantitative synthesis
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16719566/
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