Have you considered the background of a person talking about such a course? They might have read more than you about the topic, so they reasonably feel that the

Have you considered the background of a person talking about such a course? They might have read more than you about the topic, so they reasonably feel that the course brings nothing new. The problem is that it doesn't bring anything new to them, but they forget that other people don't have the same knowledge as they do. This is called the course of knowledge, where you forget what it was like before you knew something. What I can say about "Learning how to learn" specifically is that it covers how to encode information for better retention, what strategies to use to increase long-term recall (there are 3 and they're unintuitive), how to use chunking, how to build habits. Sure, you could cover these topics in 5 minutes, but you wouldn't do them justice. Especially for someone who's encountering them for the first time.