What Everyone Should Know About Super-efficient Learning Quotes

“Turn off your phones, emails, or Facebook notifications, and use the “Pomodoro technique” to create blocks of uninterrupted time to do focused study and deep thinking. Insight only happens when you can think deeply.”
― Jennifer April, What Everyone Should Know About Super-efficient Learning

“Research has shown that napping can increase your focus, improve your working memory, and make you happier and more creative. Suppose you don’t get enough sleep the previous night: try to take a 20-minute power nap the next day and it can give you a cognitive boost.”
― Jennifer April, What Everyone Should Know About Super-efficient Learning

“hand writing has been shown to form stronger neural connections.”
― Jennifer April, What Everyone Should Know About Super-efficient Learning

“Do you know novelty can not only keep us engaged, but also serve as a source of motivation? When we are exposed to novelty, the dopamine pathway (the “pleasure/reward center” in our brain) is activated. Our brain is stimulated with a little rush of motivation, since it anticipates a potential reward and wants to explore further.”
― Jennifer April, What Everyone Should Know About Super-efficient Learning

“the key to reaching high levels of performance and productivity is to develop the lifelong habit of tackling your major tasks first thing each morning.”
― Jennifer April, What Everyone Should Know About Super-efficient Learning

“Try to tighten the feedback loop by actively seeking evaluations from teachers or peers, and test yourself often. Studies have found that in professions with less direct feedback loops -stock analysis, psychiatry, etc. -even the best get worse over time. Surgeons, by contrast, are the only class of physicians that improve the longer they are out of medical school. Why? Because if they mess things up, patients die. That is the power of timely feedback.”
― Jennifer April, What Everyone Should Know About Super-efficient Learning

“It also means try to remove the few constraints that create the 80% obstacles in your learning.”
― Jennifer April, What Everyone Should Know About Super-efficient Learning

“The more timely the feedback - the smaller the gap between input and output - the more you know about how you are doing and how to do it better.”
― Jennifer April, What Everyone Should Know About Super-efficient Learning

“focusing your effort and energy on the 20% that will yield 80% of the results. A useful exercise is to write down all the essential components you need to learn on one page.”
― Jennifer April, What Everyone Should Know About Super-efficient Learning

“You need to step out of your comfort zone in order to make real progress. Practicing things you already know is not only a waste of time, but also prevents you from exploring your full potential.”
― Jennifer April, What Everyone Should Know About Super-efficient Learning

“Passive rereading of the same material again and again, or glancing at problems and solutions simultaneously creates illusion of progress. Instead, use recall to test how much you have truly learned as often as you can.”
― Jennifer April, What Everyone Should Know About Super-efficient Learning

“You can easily download a Pomodoro app for your phone. Try to apply the “Pomodoro technique” in your learning.”
― Jennifer April, What Everyone Should Know About Super-efficient Learning

“Effective people are those who launch directly into their most important tasks and then discipline themselves to work steadily and single-mindedly until those tasks are complete.”
― Jennifer April, What Everyone Should Know About Super-efficient Learning

“We are what we repeatedly do, and it is our actions that define us.”
― Jennifer April, What Everyone Should Know About Super-efficient Learning