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Anyone can use these basic principles to make learning more effective.
- Learn from your mistakes. Instead of repeating information over and over, think about what you did right and what you did wrong.
- Practice should be varied. Change how you learn something. It forces the brain's learned patterns to become more flexible.
- Teach others the same skill. Consider sharing the skill you're learning with someone you know.
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Children are very good at picking up patterns implicitly. But after age 12, we lose some of that capacity to absorb new information.
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