Deliberate practice: Deliberate practice means focusing on the material that’s most difficult for you. The opposite is “lazy learning”—repeatedly practicing what’s easiest. Fact memory: We use the term fact to indicate a category of memory that is more abstract. Facts can be harder to store in long-term memory than pictures. (Psychologists call these types of long-term memories that are common knowledge, such as the names of colors and other basic facts acquired over a lifetime, “semantic” memory.) Interleaving: Interleaving means practicing different aspects of what you are trying to learn so
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