Completely agree. As commented elsewhere, the main driver in true learning is practice.
I also wholly reject the idea that this "edutainment" content is useless. Same as spaced repetition, once you see some concepts often enough (which the algorithm guarantees if it knows you are into that topic), you will learn something. I don't consume such content myself, but to dismiss it just looks as rejecting formats different than what you used.
spaced repetition, once you see some concepts often enough
I think there's a quote on this but I can't remember by whom, but I think it's something like "Familiarity doesn't lead to repetion, repetition leads to familiarity."
Even if not a quote, I think the idea (with spaced repetion adding the concept of time) of repeated exposure to a subject as the thing that drives understanding, and not understanding just being a thing that itself allows people to do the subject a lot, is an important one to keep in mind for learning any new topic, particularly ones that are perhaps further away from your current knowledge base, and so feel inherently trickier.
And if you fully comfortable with the subject, you're probably not learning anything at that point ;)
Practice is the boring person's substitute for a diversity of real projects that interesting people work on to strengthen their learning. If you are boring, you can't be helped.
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Completely agree. As commented elsewhere, the main driver in true learning is practice.
I also wholly reject the idea that this "edutainment" content is useless. Same as spaced repetition, once you see some concepts often enough (which the algorithm guarantees if it knows you are into that topic), you will learn something. I don't consume such content myself, but to dismiss it just looks as rejecting formats different than what you used.
I think there's a quote on this but I can't remember by whom, but I think it's something like "Familiarity doesn't lead to repetion, repetition leads to familiarity."
Even if not a quote, I think the idea (with spaced repetion adding the concept of time) of repeated exposure to a subject as the thing that drives understanding, and not understanding just being a thing that itself allows people to do the subject a lot, is an important one to keep in mind for learning any new topic, particularly ones that are perhaps further away from your current knowledge base, and so feel inherently trickier.
And if you fully comfortable with the subject, you're probably not learning anything at that point ;)
Practice is the boring person's substitute for a diversity of real projects that interesting people work on to strengthen their learning. If you are boring, you can't be helped.