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Mental horsepower doesn’t guarantee mental dexterity. No matter how much brainpower you have, if you lack the motivation to change your mind, you’ll miss many occasions to think again.
Adam Grant • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
Chunking helps explain instances of apparently miraculous, domain-specific memory,
David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
People who learn to extract the key ideas from new material and organize them into a mental model and connect that model to prior knowledge show an advantage in learning complex mastery.
Henry L. Roediger III • Make It Stick
Remember the basics of memory retrieval
Jenni Romaniuk • Better Brand Health eBook
followed by a collection of medieval writings on memory by Thomas Aquinas, Albertus Magnus, Hugh of St. Victor, and Peter of Ravenna.
Joshua Foer • Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
They speculated that a high level of linguistic ability in early life may act as a buffer to cognitive decline by facilitating mnemonic processes for encoding, organizing, and retrieving information.
Thomas H. Davenport • Keeping Up with the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics
PKMs & Intelligent Notetaking
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psychologists used to tend to agree on a very specific number when it came to short-term memory: We can hold a maximum of seven things in our head at the same time, plus/minus two (Miller 1956).
Sönke Ahrens • How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers
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