Sublime

when the mind has to work, learning sticks better.

Here’s what happens in your brain:

2. Short-Term Memory

Consolidation, which renders what we have learned fully automated and involves sleep as a key component. Far from being unique

The mental recombinations of sleep helped them explore the full range of solutions to the puzzle, detecting patterns that they had failed to perceive in their initial training period.

There are common features of brain activity too. Among the most striking are the changes in brain dynamics as animals fall asleep and wake up—the

Journaling improves your memory.

Robert Waggoner cleverly calls the “conscious unconscious.”16

Memory tricks are based on the science of how memories are made.