Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

by Peter C. Brown

practice is far more effective when it’s broken into separate periods of training that are spaced out.

you discern context better

the process of trying to solve a problem without the benefit of having been taught how is called generative learning, meaning that the learner is generating the answer rather than recalling it. Generation is another name for old-fashioned trial and error.

Long-term memory capacity is virtually limitless: the more you know, the more possible connections you have for adding new knowledge.

Monitoring your own thinking is what psychologists call metacognition