Make It Stick The Science of Successful Learning

What it is about

This synthesis of cognitive-science research overturns familiar but weak study habits such as rereading, highlighting, and massed practice. Through experiments and cases, it explains why retrieval, spacing, interleaving, varied practice, and delayed feedback make learning feel harder while producing knowledge that is more durable, flexible, and usable. Its place here is personal: I want the argument to meet the life I am actually living.

Why I keep it

How memory actually works, so I stop studying the way that feels good.

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