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The Exercise-Learning Connection

I’ve become somewhat fanatical about the “physical” side of learning – namely, exercise, diet, and sleep. I touched on sleep in a recent post (more of that to come), so I thought

5 Powerful Lifelong Learning Strategies for Your Toolbox

There is a good chance that, back in the day, you were not taught the most effective ways to learn. Certainly that seems to be the case today. In a an article in American Educator, Kent State professor

Don't Wake Her, She's Learning: 3 Recent Studies Reinforce Importance of Sleep for Learning

Learning Habits /
By Jeff Cobb

I’ve never been a great sleeper. Now I have a 3-year old who seems to have inherited that trait. As a result, I’ve become a bit obsessed lately with both my own sleep and hers and that obsession

Memrise: A Learning Engine Worth a Spin

Languages Tools & Tips /
By Jeff Cobb

Are you hoping to learn or brush up on a foreign language in 2014? Have you found that whenever you set out to do this in the past, it’s been hard to keep at it? Memrise may be just the ticket for

5 Key Focus Areas for Enhancing Life and Learning

Learning Habits /
By Jeff Cobb

I have found the following to emerge again and again as areas of life and learning that need continual attention and reinforcement for the dedicated lifelong learner. They are areas I continually work