Outsmart Your Brain

Why Learning is Hard and How You Can Make It Easy
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Outsmart Your Brain, authored by Daniel Willingham, offers strategies to enhance cognitive function and improve learning capabilities. The book provides practical insights into understanding how the brain processes information and offers tips to overcome mental roadblocks, helping you to become more effective in everyday tasks. Designed to boost personal development, it empowers you to maximise your intellectual potential.
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This book may appeal to you if you're keen to enhance your cognitive skills and improve your thinking processes. Daniel Willingham offers practical strategies for optimising learning and decision-making, making it ideal for those interested in personal and intellectual growth.

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Outsmart Your Brain

A smart and practical guide to effective studying, successful exam technique and enjoyable learning

A smart and practical guide to effective studying, successful exam technique and enjoyable learning

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In this revolutionary guide to learning, Professor Dan Willingham uses fascinating brain science to help you study more efficiently and effectively, shrug away exam stress, and make learning a skill you can master and enjoy.

Outsmart Your Brain offers specific strategies for reading, listening, and taking tests. The book covers 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 an ideal book for university students, as well as for older children and adult learners studying for the bar, medical exams, or other professional qualifications. Also useful for teachers of all ages and stages, Outsmart Your Brain is a handbook for successful learning. It teaches you how to battle your brain's own mechanisms to study more efficiently, vastly improve your grades, and make learning a genuinely fun experience.

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Daniel Willingham's Outsmart Your Brain is praised for being both an instructional and scientific guide to learning, particularly in classroom settings. Esteemed authors appreciate its practicality for students, with some describing it as a go-to resource for mastering student success tactics. Reviewers highlight that the book serves as a user’s manual for understanding the student’s brain, making it an invaluable tool for those entering college or beginning a new school year.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781788167758

Publisher: Profile Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 February 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Souvenir Press Ltd

Edition: Main

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 26.0mm

Width: 150.0mm

Height: 232.0mm

Weight: 420g

Pages: 336

About the Author

Daniel T. Willingham, professor of cognitive science at the University of Virginia, is one of the most brilliant and prominent experts on learning in the world. He is well-known to New York Times readers through his opinion columns, which appear every two to three months.

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