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practice habits

How to Study-Practice: Habits

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The most common reason why students do not make progress it’s NOT that they are untalented…

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2010-04-02 How to Study-Practice

How Your Brain Works: Habits

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Every thought, belief, and action that you repeat over and over turns into a habit… an unconscious, automatic behavior…

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2010-03-22 How Your Brain Works

How Your Brain Works: The Power & Challenge of Studying

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Assuming that something is worth learning… and assuming that we’ve given an honest effort to do so… the reason we typically fail to learn something is not because we are stupid or untalented…

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2010-03-06 How Your Brain Works

How Your Brain Works

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Isn’t it curious (and so very unfortunate) that we all go to school for years and years without ever learning how our brain, the very organ that we are trying to change in the process, works?

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2010-03-01 How Your Brain Works, The Basics
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