Outsmart Your Brain: Why Learning is Hard and How You Can Make It Easy
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'The first, last, best, and only scientific guide to learning in the classroom' Daniel Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Stumbling on Happiness
In this revolutionary guide to learning, Professor Dan Willingham helps you study more efficiently and effectively, shrug away exam stress and make learning a skill you can master and enjoy.
Based on the latest brain science, Outsmart Your Brain offers specific strategies for reading, listening and taking tests, covering the practical aspects like optimum note taking, how to read difficult books and good exam technique, coupled with the psychological challenges of dealing with anxiety, fighting procrastination and developing good focus.
Smart, enlightening and immensely practical, this is a book for older children, university students and adult learners studying for the bar, medical exams and other professional qualifications. Also useful for teachers of all ages and stages, Outsmart Your Brain is a handbook for successful learning, teaching you how to battle your brain's own mechanisms to study more efficiently, vastly improve your grades and make learning a genuinely fun experience.
Daniel T. Willingham
Dan Willingham received his PhD from Harvard University in cognitive psychology and is now a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia. He is the author of several books, including Outsmart Your Brain and Raising Kids Who Read. A fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science, you can follow him on Twitter @DTWillingham.
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