A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)
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It takes time to move information from working memory to long-term memory.
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spaced repetition.
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Putting a day between
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bouts
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of repetition—e...
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twenty-one minutes
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turning a short power nap into a longer sleep can leave you groggy.
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cognitive r...
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faucet—it
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sleep is a vital part of memory and learning.
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Part of what this special sleep-time
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erase trivial aspects o...
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simultaneously strengthen areas o...
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your brain also r...
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tougher parts of whatever you are trying to learn—go...
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neural patterns to deepen and str...
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Dreaming about what you are studying can substantially enhance your ability to understand—it
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reading for one hour with a well-rested brain is better
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SUMMING
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When frustration arises, it’s time to switch your attention
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diffuse mode to begin working in the background.
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It’s best to work at math and science in small doses—a...
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procrastination
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is an issue,
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twenty-five minutes and focusing intentl...
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two major memory
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Working memory—like
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Long-term mem...
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needs to be revisited occasionally to keep the mem...
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Spaced rep...
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working memory to long-te...
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prune away trivialities.
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we all can bake into our personal recipes for success.
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excruciating
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expose my work to other people, but every time I do, it turns out for the best.
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“What would you do if you weren’t afraid?”
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Criticism makes us better:
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our work to ...
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by externalizing it so we can inspect...
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Be willing to be disagreeable.
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correlation
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those who are the most disagreeable tend to b...
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at the few times when I found something novel, it was because I challenge...
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strip a p...
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roundness.
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