Sublime

Realize that the conscious mind is in a battle with the subconscious mind.

Learning, in both brains and machines, thus requires searching for an optimal combination of parameters that, together, define the mental model in every detail.

To cement the event, the neurons that were recently activated undergo major physical changes. They modify the strength of their interconnections, thus increasing the group support and making it more likely that this set of neurons will fire in the future. Some synapses become physically larger and may even get duplicated.

three pillars of learning and quickly learned to read. He actively engaged in reading, with curiosity and enthusiasm. He learned to pay attention to every letter of every word, from left to right. And, over the months, as his errors receded, he began to accurately decipher the correspondence between letters and sounds and to store the spellings of

Grammar rules are just one example of a particular talent in our brain: the ability to discover the general laws that lie behind specific cases. Whether it is in mathematics, language, science, or music, the human brain manages to extract very abstract principles, systematic rules that it can reapply in many different contexts. Take arithmetic, for

even babies a few weeks old are sensitive to magic. They already possess deep intuitions of the physical world and, like all of us, are stunned when their expectations turn out to be false. By

what matters most is to restore their desire to learn by offering them stimulating problems carefully tailored to their current level.

would the idea that mental processes are opportunistic

reduce the demand on working memory is to swap a fancy technical term for one that’s easier to understand.