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Curiosity is worth 25 extra IQ points at least by Kevin Kelly
You may not be able to raise your IQ by 25 points, but curiosity might be the next best thing. Here’s why asking one more question...
Whatever the brain does a lot it gets good at by MMJ
Your brain gets better at whatever you repeatedly ask it to do including the habits you wish you could break. What are you training...
Brains are pattern seekers and pattern makers by MMJ
Brains naturally seek patterns in noise, a survival skill that helps radiologists spot anomalies but can also create meaning where...
Most failure isn't due to a lack of effort but to a lack of focused effort by Sahil Bloom
Failure often comes not from insufficient effort, but from spreading attention across too many goals...
Be the tortoise! Stop running out of time like a hare by Hermann Ebbinghaus
Hermann Ebbinghaus’s research on the forgetting curve and spacing effect explains how shorter study sessions, spaced over time and...
Learning requires confusion and repetition. Do it again if you fail or a little different if you succeed, and you become unstoppable.
Learning requires confusion and repetition: struggling, failing, and making small adjustments are essential to building lasting...
Ordinary people seek entertainment. Extraordinary people seek education and learning. Benjamin Hardy
Benjamin Hardy’s quote contrasts passive entertainment with deliberate learning, arguing that repeated choices about spare attention...
The more you learn, the more you earn.by Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett’s advice to “read 500 pages a day” captures how knowledge compounds like interest...
Benjamin Franklin’s famous line argues that learning compounds: unlike money, knowledge stays with you and strengthens as new ideas...