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My problem with Anki/flashcards is that I hate doing it so much that their effectiveness is moot. If they help me learn at 100% speed and some other more enjoy
by Grombobulous 4mo ago
My problem with Anki/flashcards is that I hate doing it so much that their effectiveness is moot.
If they help me learn at 100% speed and some other more enjoyable method helps me learn at 25% speed, I’ll pick the latter every time.
Thankfully, I didn’t become a doctor or lawyer, I would have been screwed.
- PandaRider 4mo agoFor most folks, the incentive of learning at 100% speed [1] is getting better grades in school. It's a huge ego boost to walk in to an exam hall with zero handwritten cheat sheets while everyone others have font 6 cheat sheets. As a working adult, we hardly get this kind of ego boost unless we somehow know our colleagues salary. Even so, there are many other factors outside of knowledge storage that determine one's salary (e.g. feedback from teammates, number of closed sales etc) [1] Actually, it's not 100% speed but 1 step back and 2 steps forward. Because the initial time and motivation cost is non-trivial.
- msm_ 4mo agoJust as a datapoint - I really like learning with Anki. If there was another method that would let me learn at 200% speed, I would pick Anki. This is moot anyway, because most other learning methods require longer focus and are not possible to do while on the go, during short commute in a tram, or 3 minute wait in a queue, and much more.