How to Be Awesome at Your Job18 Nov 2024

1012: Triple Your Learning through Productive Failure with Dr. Manu Kapur

Dr. Manu Kapur reveals how to maximize learning by intentionally designing for failure.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why to avoid explanations and experts (at first)

2) How to achieve the sweet spot of deep learning

3) Four ways to hack your motivation

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— ABOUT MANU —

Dr. Manu Kapur is a world-renowned expert on learning and currently heads the Future Learning Initiative at ETH University Zurich. He divides his research time between ETH Zurich and the Singapore-ETH Center in Singapore. Dr. Kapur earned his doctorate in Education from Columbia University.

Dr. Kapur is known for his pioneering research on intentionally designing for and learning from failure, demonstrating how this approach can lead to more effective learning compared to traditional methods. He frequently speaks at corporate and educational events and is often interviewed on learning-related subjects, including several appearances on NPR and two successful TEDX talks: Productive Failure and How Failure Drives Learning.

• Book: Productive Failure: Unlocking Deeper Learning Through the Science of Failing (book site)

• TED Talk: Productive Failure

• TEDx Talk: How failure drives learning | Manu Kapur | TEDxHSGSalon

• Website: ManuKapur.com

• LinkedIn: Manu Kapur

• Twitter/X: @ManuKapur24

• Instagram: drmanu_kapur

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: Shantaram: A Novel by Gregory David Roberts

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