Open-book educational tests and environments force actual learning because you have to do the work and understand something rather than just memorize for 10 minutes—speaker observed that the only courses he learned anything in were essentially open-book because they required actually doing the work.
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Unidentified Speaker — Seth Godin: "Failure is Learning on Your Way to Mastery" an… [gX-n8I2PAdY]Evidence Quote
“The only courses I learned anything in in college and business school were the ones that were essentially open book. Because what it means to have an open book educational interaction is that you have to do the work.”
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Seth Godin: "Failure is Learning on Your Way to Mastery" and Other Advice for Creativity— The Knowledge Project PodcastCreated: 8/10/2026, 11:26:08 PM
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