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Peg Reading To Concrete Experience
- Peg your reading to concrete experiences to learn efficiently and form durable knowledge.
- John Krakauer recommends reading around a patient or problem immediately after encountering it.
Invest Time For Interdisciplinary Expertise
- Build deep foundations in each discipline if you pursue true interdisciplinary work.
- David Barack warns this takes time, sacrifices, and slows conventional academic output.
Stroke Patients Shaped Neural Intuitions
- John says long clinical experience with stroke patients grounded his intuitions about modularity and cognition.
- He uses patient dissociations to challenge abstract claims about brain function.