Scientific Definition
Teaching the same concept to different audiences over time is naturally spaced repetition with feedback baked in.
Plain-English Definition
Teaching the same concept to different audiences over time is naturally spaced repetition with feedback baked in.
Feynman Explanation
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Core Principle
Teaching the same concept to different audiences over time is naturally spaced repetition with feedback baked in.
Mechanisms
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Teaching the same concept to different audiences over time is naturally spaced repetition with feedback baked in.
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Internal speaker series re-uses the same expert across quarters intentionally.
Inputs (Triggers)
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Outputs (Behaviors)
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Behavioral Signature
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Examples
- Professors who teach the same course 10 years running outperform on the underlying material.
- Internal speaker series re-uses the same expert across quarters intentionally.
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Famous Experiments
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Design Principles
- Re-teach last quarter's key concept this quarter to a new audience.
Measurement Approaches
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Evidence
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The Perverse Incentive Lens™
How this behavior is exploited — and how to redesign around it.
- Re-teach last quarter's key concept this quarter to a new audience.
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Interactive Mini Network
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Knowledge Graph Neighbors
Auto-linked to the rest of the Human Behavior Taxonomy by family, domain, dimension, and shared keywords.
A visual map of where in your day, mind, and environment your best thinking actually happens.
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Environmental factors influence perception and judgment.
Preference between two options depends on what other options sit beside them — attraction, compromise, similarity effects.
The same message in a different setting produces a different result.
Removing a quote from its context to distort its meaning.
A change to the choice architecture that predictably shifts behavior — without removing options.
Default identity shift: you read, watch, and listen as a future teacher, not a passive consumer.
Pulling information out of memory cements it better than passively re-reading it.
Your capacity to learn, unlearn, and relearn faster than the environment changes.
Malcolm Knowles's principles of adult learning: self-direction, experience as resource, readiness, problem-centered orientation, intrinsic motivation.
Amishi Jha's research: attention is a finite, depletable, but trainable cognitive resource — short daily mindfulness measurably improves it.