Barbara Oakley

You will find many more insights and techniques about how to learn effectively in this fascinating and timely book, which looks at learning as an adventure rather than hard labor.

switch to a different task, for example, when checking your email or a text message, you activate a different set of information. This leaves what’s called an attention residue

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The more you practice, the thicker and stronger the neural connections become. Learning more complex information well also creates longer sets of links

to remember the main points from a video you just watched, or a book section you’ve just read.

more you retrieve the material, and the broader the set of contexts you retrieve the materials in, the stronger and more broadly connected the neural links become.

If you’ve ever wanted to become better at anything, this book will help serve as your guide.

Back then, I only knew how to tap one mode for learning—and the result was that I was deaf to the music of math.

She is utterly unforgiving if you happen to miss any step of the logical sequence