Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career

When you space out practice at a task and get a little rusty between sessions, or you interleave the practice of two or more subjects, retrieval is harder and feels less productive, but the effort produces longer lasting learning and enables more versatile application of it in later settings.

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

When facing a new problem on the job, most experts search their memory banks for a similar situation they faced in the past. Problem-based lessons give learners an opportunity to build those memory repositories for later use.