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Even worse than losing self-confidence, though, is reacting defensively. There are surgeons who will see faults everywhere except in themselves. They have no questions and no fears about their abilities. As a result, they learn nothing from
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“studies show that “deep sleep,” which is concentrated in the first half of the night, is most valuable for retaining hard facts—names, dates, formulas, concepts. If you’re preparing for a test that’s heavy on retention (foreign vocabulary, names and dates, chemical structures), it’s better to hit the sack at your usual time, get that full dose of deep sleep, and roll out of bed early for a quick review.”
― How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens
― How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens
“people don’t benefit from an incubation break unless they have reached an impasse.”
― How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens
― How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens
“We’re still in foraging mode to a larger extent than we know. The brain has not yet adapted to “fit” the vocabulary of modern education, and the assumptions built into that vocabulary mask its true nature as a learning organ.”
― How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens
― How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens
“Gestalt psychologists theorized that the brain does similar things with certain types of puzzles. That is, it sees them as a whole—it constructs an “internal representation”—based on built-in assumptions.”
― How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens
― How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens
“Zeigarnik’s studies on interruption revealed a couple of the mind’s intrinsic biases, or built-in instincts, when it comes to goals. The first is that the act of starting work on an assignment often gives that job the psychological weight of a goal, even if it’s meaningless. (The people in her studies were doing things like sculpting a dog from a lump of clay, for heaven’s sake; they got nothing out of it but the satisfaction of finishing.) The second is that interrupting yourself when absorbed in an assignment extends its life in memory and—according to her experiments—pushes it to the top of your mental to-do list.”
― How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens
― How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens
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