Laps in the Pattern Flight instructors are no strangers to the traffic pattern. To develop our students’ skills, we coach them through as many landings as we can. Closed circuits in the traffic pattern are a common way to cram plenty of landings into a tight block of...
How We Practice Matters In this series we’re examining what psychology can teach us about training better. Specifically we’re looking at the life work of Elizabeth and Robert Bjork, co-directors of the Learning and Forgetting Lab at UCLA. The Bjork’s...
Desirable Difficulties Earlier we discussed UCLA Psychologists Elizabeth and Robert Bjork’s research on learning and forgetting. They argue that introducing “desirable difficulties” into training is beneficial. While they seem to slow our short-term...
Desirable Difficulties Psychologists Elizabeth and Robert Bjork, directors of the Bjork Learning and Forgetting Lab at UCLA, have invested decades of research in understanding how people learn new things, and how we forget them. Their research has pointed to a number...
Sleep Scientist Matthew Walker says it is time to pay better attention to how well we sleep. I agree. The Cost of Poor Sleep A truck driver is gliding down an interstate highway around 1:00 in the morning. His brain feels heavy as it is locked into a battle to stay...
