The Power of Belief in Learning
When I was a kid, I really wanted to be a professional musician. I started playing drums in the school band when I was in 5th grade, and by the time I was 16, I was …
Brain Science
The ever tightening link between sleep, learning, and memory
It’s been a while since my last post on sleep and learning. During that time, evidence suggesting the critical connection between sleep, learning, and memory has continued to accumulate. For a poor sleeper like me, it …
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Fish Really is Brain Food, Study Confirms
Wondering how to beef up your brain, not only to boost your learning power but also to protect against the risk of age-related brain diseases like Alzheimer’s? Read on for the latest news about the powerful …
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15 Ways of the Successful Self-Directed Learner
The “why” of self-directed learning is survival—your own survival as an individual, and also the survival of the human race. Clearly, we are not talking here about something that would be nice or desirable….We are …
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10 Brain Links Worth Clicking
For those of you who haven’t yet decided to follow Mission to Learn on Twitter (You know who you are.), here’s a round up of some exquisite links I’ve tweeted lately on the general topic …
So maybe we can make ourselves smarter?
I noted in an earlier post that as powerful as deliberate practice can be for mastering particular skills or knowledge, recent research suggests that we eventually run up against the limits of our intellectual capabilities. …
What’s your working memory capacity, and other tests
A while back I noted that working memory may, it turns out, be a more important factor than deliberate practice in achieving greatness (or at least as important a factor). More recently I came across …
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About Memory, Part II – Podcast with Fiona McPherson
This is the second installment of a Radio Free Learning podcast with Dr. Fiona McPherson, author of The Memory Key and curator of the About Memory Web site. In the first installment we discussed some …
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