A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)

by Barbara Oakley

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Keep in mind that the diffuse mode’s semi-random way of making connections means that the solutions it provides with should be carefully verified using the focused m...

Go to the Internet and discover who first figured out the method or some of the earliest people to use it.

Try to understand how the creative inventor arrived at the idea and why the idea is used—you can often find a simple explanation that gives a basic sense of why a method is being taught and why you would want to use it.

I’ve already mentioned that just understanding what’s going on is not usually enough to create a chunk.

both bottom-up chunking and top-down big-picture approaches are vital