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• research suggests that the most effective strategies are often those you are initially not particularly comfortable with.
• there is a reasonable consensus that verbal and visuospatial information have different “stores”.
• But the most important part of working memory, it now appears, is the executive control — your ability to control attention; your ability to concentrate and not be distracted by competing demands.
• Note-taking is primarily a tool to encode information effectively in your memory.
• PART I: Selection strategies