Getting to know Minute Studio
How learning works here, and how to write it
by Minute Studio · 6 units · Beginner · usually about 3 min
Introduction · Learning to learn · Memory · Writing practices
You can test yourself and spread your learning over days, and you have drafted the goal and first session of a practice of your own.
Minute Studio is for things you want to be able to do, not just things you want to read once. That is why it makes you try first, compare afterwards and recall it again later. In some practices each session also adds to a piece of your own, a series of drawings or a text in versions, kept in your folder.
In the first four sessions you run a small memory experiment on yourself and try real cards from the catalogue. In the last two you swap sides and draft the first session of a practice of your own.
In 1879, the 29-year-old philosopher Hermann Ebbinghaus sat down in Berlin with a ticking clock and a stack of nonsense syllables. He wanted to answer a seemingly simple question:
How quickly do we forget what we learn?
In a moment you try his experiment on yourself.
Materials
Most sessions take three to five minutes; give the final one a few extra minutes. Turn the sound on.
The path
- The man who wanted to measure forgetting
- Spread it out
- Four samples
- Your curve
- Turn knowledge into a practice
- Build your first session