Sublime

But every time you learn something new, you change the brain—the residue of your experiences is stored.

Memory is shown to be not so much a library but more a repository of ready-to-run routines that enable our daily living.

effortful learning changes the brain, building new connections and capability.

Which are the big ideas, and which are supporting concepts or nuances? If you were to test yourself on the main ideas, how would you describe them?

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. A mental model is a mental representation of some external reality.

Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Peter Brown, Henry Roediger and Mark McDaniel. The authors are distinguished psychology professors, and together they’ve created a useful summary of the best strategies and tactics we have to help people learn.

how the brain changes with learning.

Repeated retrieval not only makes memories more durable but produces knowledge that can be retrieved more readily, in more varied settings, and applied to a wider variety of problems.