I’ve written before about how I first got interested in speed reading. I had read a book teaching it, and noticed it helped me read almost twice as fast. A few years after, however, I mostly stopped using the technique I had learned and went back to the normal approach to reading. A few years […]

I’ve been learning Chinese now for roughly five years. Including a burst of intensive immersion during three months in China near the beginning, plus plenty of practice since, I now feel fairly comfortable with the language. I’m still a long way from perfect fluency, but I’m at a point where conversing in Chinese is pretty […]

Learning and habits seem like to separate facts about our psychology. Learning is about knowledge, information and skills. Habits are about routines, behaviors and actions. However, I think the two actually work on mostly the same principles of the brain, and recognizing this connection can help you both learn better and form better habits. Learning […]

Is memory redundant? After all, the world is just a Google search away. Who needs to memorize facts, dates, terms and definitions when you can pull them up in less time than it takes to wrack your brain to remember them? Some argue that just as teaching cursive or long division is becoming antiquated, so […]