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Your brain on books is active - growing, changing and making new connections and different patterns, depending on the type of material you're reading. Highly successful learners read a lot.
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Experts at the Louisiana State University's Center for Academic Success recommends 30-50 minutes sessions. "Anything less than 30 is just not enough, but anything more than 50 is too much information for your brain to take in at one time,"
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Cultivating a growth or adaptable mindset can help you focus more on your most desirable goals in life. It may influence your motivation and could make you more readily able to see opportunities to learn and grow your abilities.
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We all have enough brainpower to master a new discipline - we use the right tools, approaches, or apply what we learn correctly. Almost anyone can learn anything - with the right technique.
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It's an enjoyable lifelong process - a self-directed and self-paced journey of discovery. Understanding any topic, idea or new mindset requires not only keen observation but more fundamentally, the sustained curiosity.
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That means eating lots of foods associated with slowing cognitive decline - blueberries, vegetables (leafy greens - kale, spinach, broccoli), whole grains, getting protein from fish and legumes and choosing healthy unsaturated fats (olive oil) over saturated fats (butter).
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Downtime is crucial to retaining anything you choose to learn. According to recent research, taking short breaks, early and often, can help you learn things bette...
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The ultimate test of your knowledge is your capacity to transfer it to another. A better way to learn, process, retain and remember information is to learn half the time and share half the time. Example, instead of completing a book, aim to read 50 percent and try recalling, sharing, or writing d...
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Reading is one of the best sources of continuous learning. It allows your mind to grow, change and make new connections.
Highly successful learners read a lot: Elon Musk grew up reading two books a day, according to his brother. Bill Gates reads 50 books per year. Mark Zuckerberg reads...
A new idea, outlook on life, mental model, is all it takes for something to click inside your brain.
Your brain will start making connections between books that seemed to be on different topics. The more you read, the more links you form and the richer your understanding b...
Irrespective of what a person is doing, the entire brain is generally active and, depending on the task, some areas are more active than others.Β
People can always learn new ideas and new skills, not by tapping into some unused part of the brain, but by forming new or stronger connection...
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