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I've tried listening to Pluralsight courses as background noise and it does not work at all. Learning is an active activity, at least when it comes to skills.
by Pxtl 5y ago
I've tried listening to Pluralsight courses as background noise and it does not work at all. Learning is an active activity, at least when it comes to skills.
The only thing I think I could "learn" through that kind of passive listening would be narrative stuff like history, or interesting global trivia. Maybe philosophy or policy at a stretch.
- watwut 5y agoThe thing has to be designed for background listeners to work as such. Lectures are designed for active listener and packed with dense information. Good background podcasts are more conversational, repeat the same information twice, go slow and talk for long about one thing. So they work as background listening, but if you tried to actively listen you would feel like they are too long.