Anjola Omole's Key Ideas from Make It Stick
by Peter C. Brown

Learning is not as quick as many people believe to learn something new you must go through a series of steps including

1. Storing: This is the art of storing information in your short term memory
2. Consolidation: learning over a long period of time typically overnight

• Do some of your work consciously
• Think about how it relates to other things
• Wrestle with the idea in your mind
• Explain it to someone
• Take notes on it or connect it to other maps
• Do anything to make that new idea connect with other ideas in your brain

If you want to learn Retrival is key

The act of retrieving information especially when it is difficult to do increases the change that it sticks in your brain Retrival is the most effective way to learn

• Use Quizzes
• Searching for the answer in your brain
• Making mistakes and then correcting them

When it’s hard to Retrival information it increases retention

A study was conducted that had two different baseball players practice hitting the ball.

• One of them practiced the same style over and over and switched every 15 hits
• The other players had varied styles over 45 different attemps

The Players who varied there practice did far superior than the ones who didn't

Most people believe that when you understand something right away you are learning better that is not the case

Learning is not easy here is why

• It requires you to seek ideas, patterns and rules
• It requires extensive Cognitive Load

• Chunking is great for retention
• Stimulate your brain by proper diet and foot and rest
• Choose growth mindset other than fixed mindset

Three things you can do to learn anything faster

1. Create self-quizzes to retrieve more often
2. Reflect on my asking many questions
3. Empty Recall: Create a empty sheet and dump all the information you learned