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“people don’t benefit from an incubation break unless they have reached an impasse.”
― Benedict Carey, How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens

“Self-examination can be done at home. When working on guitar, I learn a few bars of a piece, slowly, painstakingly—then try to play it from memory several times in a row. When reading through a difficult scientific paper, I put it down after a couple times through and try to explain to someone what it says. If there’s no one there to listen (or pretend to listen), I say it out loud to myself, trying as hard as I can to quote from the paper its main points. Many teachers have said that you don’t really know a topic until you have to teach it, until you have to make it clear to someone else.”
― Benedict Carey, How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens

“Studies in animals have found direct evidence of “crosstalk” between distinct memory-related organs (the hippocampus and the neocortex, described in chapter 1) during sleep, as if the brain is reviewing, and storing, details of the most important events of the day—and integrating the new material with the old.”
― Benedict Carey, How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens

“The definition of a mathematician is a person who carries around the concept in their head for long enough that, one day, they sit down and realize that it’s familiar.”
― Benedict Carey, How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens