Learning Science, Learning Magic

from Unpopular Neuroscience · host Patrick D. Watson

Everyone knows that learning takes hard work, deep reading, study, and repeated practice. But wouldn't it be rad if it didn't? On this episode Katie and Patrick talk about the science of learning and the often more appealing—but less real—magic of learning.

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