The learning technique that science has proven to be the most effective is the one used the least. Spreading out learning over time is one of the most effective strategies. The technique is called “Distributed Practice,” meaning learning is broken
When we have practiced something so well that we no longer need to think about it, subconscious processing systems are at work. We choke under pressure because being in front of an audience is a novel condition that can thwart
William Henry Herndon was a law partner and biographer of President Abraham Lincoln. They were a study in contrasts, opposites in temperament. Despite a poetic streak, Lincoln’s mind was logical, and he longed for the day when “reason, cold, calculating,