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Area: Learning

Note Close the book and try to remember it The study method that feels least productive is the one that works. 1 min read Note Spread the same hours further apart Four sessions over a month beat four sessions over a weekend, with identical total time. 1 min read Note Mix your practice up instead of doing blocks Practising one thing until you have it produces sessions that feel great and skills that vanish. 1 min read Note Explain it to someone who will interrupt Understanding feels identical to having heard something clearly explained. It is not. 1 min read Note Ignore your learning style Being a visual learner is one of the most persistent myths in education, and it has been tested properly. 1 min read Note Do not trust brain training games You will get better at the game. That is where it stops. 1 min read Note Ten thousand hours is not a threshold Practice matters enormously and explains far less of the variance than the number suggested. 1 min read Note Sleep before you learn, not just after A short night ahead of studying costs you the encoding, not just the recall. 1 min read