The must-have guide to learning how to learn better and more efficiently by the winner of the Jeopardy Masters tournament and the World Quizzing Championships.
Victoria Groce's job is to learn quickly and well—and she's really good at it. But she will be the first to stress that she is not especially gifted; she just knows how to learn. Here she reveals her evidence-based tricks and techniques so that you, too, can learn a new language, remember the specials on today's menu, or become a better reader.
When Victoria began researching memory retention, she found tried-and-true approaches that she had never been taught in school. She combined these insights with best practices from study hackers and tweaked them over time so that they worked more effectively. The proof was on television screens across the globe, as she won competition after competition and became a sought-after trivia expert.
With her evidence-based handbook, you will
how the brain processes different types of information and what that means for learningthe skills of pattern recognition and identifying the most relevant information in any contextthe method for moving new information into long-term memorywhy we forget or the principles of spaced repetition and the forgetting curvehow to apply it to yourself with b&w illustrations, graphs, and charts throughout Whether you're looking to dominate trivia night, strengthen your brain over time, ace your exams, or learn a new skill at any age, Know It All will save you time and help make your brain as efficient as possible.
Victoria Groce is the 2024 Jeopardy! Masters champion and the winner of the 2024 and 2026 World Quizzing Championships. Beginning in 2022, she appeared as The Queen on ABC's The Chase US. A fifteen-time medalist at the International Quizzing Championships, she captained the United States' national quiz team to consecutive international titles in 2023 and 2024. She lives in Pittsburgh with her husband, daughter, two cats, and a frankly alarming number of cookbooks.