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• Many people have an incomplete sense of how to learn from books. They make the mistake of reading a book and deciding they know the information in it, but they put the book down before they have actually mastered the information – as it applies to their life – and poof! The knowledge they gained – and the benefit they could have derived – from read...
• What her book revealed is that neuroscientists now know, conclusively, that the brain makes “extraordinarily complex decisions based on its best guess at what might be going on; not an empirical, objective reality.” And because of this nuance, the brain can’t tell between an actual thing happening – like your dissertation being published – and your...