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Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World
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Looking at a solution or watching someone else practice can get you started in learning something new. But just looking or watching doesn’t build your brain-links. Actively working through a problem, or doing an activity, is what creates brain-links. You create and strengthen sets of brain-links through deliberate practice. That’s focused, repeated
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Immediately after reading our textbook or our class notes, information is fully present in our mind. It sits in our conscious working memory, in an active form. We feel as if we know it, because it is present in our short-term storage space . . . but this short-term compartment has nothing to do with the long-term memory that we will need in order
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When you’ve got an idea well linked, it’s easy to practice, and it feels good. But this can turn into “lazy learning.” Lazy learning doesn’t encourage new daytime “bumps” on your dendrites that can turn into solid new neural connections while you sleep. When you can read comic books while you’re practicing, it’s time to move on. The best way to spe
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