3 Binge-Worthy Books for Life-Long Learners
These resources can help you expand your brain.
“Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life,” Mortimer J. Adler said. I disagree.
Books don’t magically make you live the good life. You can read a book a week without changing at all.
Reading doesn’t help you per se — it’s reading the right books that can make all the difference.
No life skill can earn you greater dividends than learning how to learn. After reading more than 30 books on learning, these three are my favorite picks on meta-learning.
Every single one will help you understand how your brain learns. By doing so, you’ll make better decisions and find yourself on your journey to wisdom.
1) Make it Stick
Did you know rereading and highlighting are the most popular yet the least productive learning strategies?
Revisiting concepts and ideas might feel like learning because you recognize some of them. But you’re not learning. You’re trapped in an illusion of knowledge.
Mastering a text is different from recalling or remembering what you read.
“People commonly believe that if you expose yourself to something enough times, you can burn it…
