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Great Minds On Learning returns for Season Eight

What can sport, music, art, writing and even dog training teach L&D about how people really learn?

Great Minds on Learning — the podcast that traces learning theory from the Greeks to the geeks — returns 3 August for Season 8. Hosts John Helmer and Donald Clark step outside the workplace to mine other fields for what their research, coaching traditions and hard-won practice can tell us about learning.

Season 8 line-up:

• 3 Aug: Sport and Learning
• 17 Aug: How creators learn music, art, film & TV
• 1 Sept: How we learn to write
• Dec: Dogs and learning

Also returning in September is its sister show The Learning Hack, now in its seventh year and ranked in the top 5% of podcasts globally. Season 16 runs fortnightly Sept-Nov, with guests including Erica Farmer and Ross Stevenson.

Both shows are on all major podcast platforms and YouTube, with episode essays on the Learning Hack Substack.

Which field outside of L&D has taught you the most about how people actually learn? Sport, music, art, writing, dog training — or something else entirely?

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