Learning is the master skill, the ability that allows us to realize our ambitions: succeeding in school, getting ahead at work, playing a sport or a musical instrument, speaking a second language. Yet until recently, even the experts didn’t understand how learning works. Now research in cognitive science, psychology and neuroscience is revealing the simple and surprising techniques that can help us learn to be smarter.
Annie Murphy Paul is a book author, magazine journalist, consultant and speaker who helps people understand how we learn and how we can do it better. Her latest book, How to Be Brilliant, is forthcoming from Crown.
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My latest column for MindShift, NPR’s education blog, is about the long-lasting benefits of summer enrichment programs, and how we can implement their techniques during the rest of the school year: “As warm weather approaches and parents sign up their kids for summer enrichment programs, many may wonder how long the effects of these programs last. Do their benefits persist
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Today’s reader comment comes from Katy Read, who wrote about my recent post about how information overload was causing us to suffer from “a poverty of attention.” Katy wrote: “I think people are gradually becoming aware that attention is a limited and precious resource. We’re not trained how to ‘spend’ it, but it will be increasingly important to learn those
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Does eating sugar make you stupid? A new animal study suggests it might: “A UCLA study with rats is the first to show how a diet steadily high in fructose slows the brain, hampering memory and learning—and how omega-3 fatty acids can counteract the disruption. The peer-reviewed Journal of Physiology publishes the findings in its May 15 edition. ‘Our findings
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