Learning How to Learn: How to Succeed in School Without Spending All Your Time Studying; A Guide for Kids and Teens
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The Queensland Brain Institute, This Institute has excellent features, podcast, and a magazine. https://qbi.uq.edu.au/
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BrainFacts.org. An excellent website with all sorts of information about how your brain works. http://www.brainfacts.org/
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“5 Memory Tips to Get You Started,” by Nelson Dellis. Four-time US Memory Champion Nelson Dellis has a wonderful series of memory tip videos—this is a good one to help you get started. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEx60e_45-Q. See also Nelson’s book Remember It! on p. 219.
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My First Book About the Brain, by Patricia J. Wynne and Donald M. Silver
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The Brain: All About Our Nervous System and More!, by Seymour Simon
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What Goes On in My Head?, by Robert Winston
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The Art of Changing the Brain: Enriching the Practice of Teaching by Exploring the Biology of Learning, by James E. Zull
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The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance, by Josh Waitzkin
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Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted Wor...
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I Am Gifted, So Are You!, by Adam Khoo
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Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning, by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, and Mark A. McDaniel
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Mind for Numbers: How to Succeed in Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra) by Barbara Oakley
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Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential, by Barbara Oakley
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Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise, by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool
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Remember It! The Names of People You Meet, All Your Passwords, Where You Left Your Keys, and Everything Else You Tend to Forget by Nelson Dellis
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Beilock, S. Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal about Getting It Right When You Have To....
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