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Chapter 11: thinkers who tolerate ambiguity make the best forecasts

Chapter 4: A hyper-correction affect: the more confident a learner is about their wrong answer, the better the information sticks when they subsequently learned the right answer.

Chapter 3: a professor from the University of California-San Francisco designed an iron-free piano so he could put jazz musicians improvising on the piano in an MRI scanner. Brain areas designated for focused attention, inhibition, and self-censoring turned down when musicians were creating. It is like the brain turned off its own ability to criticize itself.

Chapter 3: he had learned to learn

Chapter 2: detailed prior knowledge ended up being less important than a way of thinking