A reasonable extrapolation of past technological trends would suggest that advances in artificial intelligence will result in greater demands for learning, not less.

Problem solving develops when you have learned how to solve many types of problems. Critical thinking comes from a broad base of knowledge to question dubious assumptions.

Success, not failure, is the best teacher.

Memorizing an answer and understanding a method may both solve a problem, but the latter is considerably more flexible.

it appears the path to mastery is through acquiring the specific knowledge and methods of the expert.

Another common mathematical heuristic is to look for an invariant. If you can find something that doesn’t change in a problem, no matter how you modify it,

Problem Solving Is Search.

Talking to experts is one of the best ways to figure out what they know.

More minds are better than one. Joining into groups that allow for friendly debate has two distinct advantages in improving the quality of your decisions. The first is that it allows you to aggregate more information.