Robert Sand

“Spaced and interleaved exposure characterizes most of humans’ normal experience.”
― Peter C. Brown, Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

“An apt analogy for how the brain consolidates new learning may be the experience of composing an essay. The first draft is rangy, imprecise. You discover what you want to say by trying to write it. After a couple of revisions you have sharpened the piece and cut away some of the extraneous points. You put it aside to let it ferment. When you pick it up again a day or two later, what you want to say has become clearer in your mind. Perhaps you now perceive that there are three main points you are making. You connect them to examples and supporting information familiar to your audience. You rearrange and draw together the elements of your argument to make it more effective and elegant.”
― Peter C. Brown, Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

“Once a goal becomes activated, it trumps all others and begins to drive our perceptions, our thoughts, our attitudes,” as John Bargh, a psychologist at Yale University, told me.”
― Benedict Carey, How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens

“It’s thought that this heightened sensitivity to similarities and differences during interleaved practice leads to the encoding of more complex and nuanced representations of the study material—a better understanding of how specimens or types of problems are distinctive and why they call for a different interpretation or solution.”
― Peter C. Brown, Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning