Thunk uses the most effective findings in cognitive science to craft guided study sessions. Turn any topic in to knowledge you'll have for life.
Learning is one of the most studied fields in cognitive science. Over centuries, a handful of techniques of been proven again and again to accelerate real knowledge.
Here's how we apply these techniques to your personalized study sessions.
Our guided study sessions encourage you to actively recall information from memory rather than passively reviewing content. You will be presented with a question, you respond with the answer.
It is more challenging than passively reading through notes, but it's this layer of desirable difficulty that moves information deeper in to your long term memory.
As you become more familiar with a topic, we space out the time between reviews. By increasing the spacing, we gradually build up your ability to retrieve information from deeper in your long term memory.
This is known as the Spacing Effect, and it's one of the most potent tools for building knowledge. It only takes a few minutes of active study time to turn a topic in to knowledge you'll have for life.
Each session mixes content from across your chosen topics. You might be asked a question about history, followed by a translation of a foreign language, and then a programming related question.
By interleaving various topics, you become more engaged in the study session. Instead of falling in to a pattern, you'll develop the ability to recall any topic on demand while growing a more generalized knowledge base.
As you build up your knowledge, you'll gradually be introduced to more advanced topics. These advanced topics often combine multiple fundamental skills, accelerating your path to mastery while maintaining a strong foundation.
There's a perfect time to introduce every new topic. We remove any unhelpful friction that can be caused by learning a topic before you are ready.
Additionally, we space out the introduction of topics that are easily mixed up. Associative interference is one of the sneakiest sources of issues and is the root cause of up to 90% of mistakes.