Whatever the brain does
Your brain gets better at whatever you repeatedly ask it to do including the habits you wish you could break.…
lifelong learning
Most failure isn’t due to a lack of effort
Failure often comes not from insufficient effort, but from spreading attention across too many goals.
Be the tortoise
Hermann Ebbinghaus’s research on the forgetting curve and spacing effect explains how shorter study sessions, spaced over time and combined…
Ordinary people seek entertainment
Benjamin Hardy’s quote contrasts passive entertainment with deliberate learning, arguing that repeated choices about spare attention shape long-term growth.
The beautiful thing about learning
This quote explores the lasting value of knowledge, encourages building resilient skills, and offers a practical 20-minute-a-day learning challenge.
The willingness to learn is a choice
Brian Herbert’s quote on learning is explored through Julia Child’s unlikely path to Le Cordon Bleu, research on deliberate practice,…
Read and Write to Avoid Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease
A major 2026 study found that lifelong reading, writing and learning can lower Alzheimer’s risk by 38% and delay onset…