Learning How to Learn: How to Succeed in School Without Spending All Your Time Studying; A Guide for Kids and Teens

Diffuse mode helps you make sense of new challenges in whatever you’re learning, whether it’s understanding a new accounting concept, handling a challenging search engine optimization problem, or figuring out how to putt in windy conditions in golf. Learning often involves moving back and forth between focused and diffuse modes. It’s typical to get

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Once the diffuse mode helps you make a new insight, the focused mode can build and strengthen the new ideas. This is why learning often involves going back and forth between focused and diffuse modes. You focus—meaning that you work intensely on the material—until you begin to struggle. Then you take a break, and the diffuse mode works on the ideas

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Memory and understanding are connected. Having key information memorized so you can readily call it to mind releases mental power and helps you work more easily at higher conceptual levels. It also allows you to form mental patterns involving the subject you’re learning. To memorize information, test yourself through active recall (retrieval practi

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