How to Learn Something Faster?

Our working-memory capacity:

• is limited to 7 units or fewer
• anxiousness/ fatigue/ presence of an attractive stranger -> even less

How to maximize it?

• You can  “chunk” information -> you can pack more material into one of those 7 units. (E.g. at the beginning to learn a code: each dit, dash = a separate chunk-> later already letters as chunks-> words ->whole phrases)
• You can also manage attention so that unwanted stimuli do not crowd the working memory.

Attention & distraction are entangled in:

• reasoning,
• working memory
• in the encoding of information into long-term memory.