18: Interleaving Information

Interleaving involves mixing different topics or types of problems within a single study session. This approach:

• Forces the brain to continually retrieve different solution strategies
• Builds ability to discriminate between p...

It’s better to distribute the time you have available to study over a greater number of shorter sessions than it is to cram your studying into a single marathon session.

If you have 12 hours to dedicate to a topic, it’s better to study over six two-hour-long sessions th...

In a 1994 paper, George Loewenstein theorized that curiosity’s direction is determined by the “information gap,” the sudden awareness of what you don’t know and the immediate desire to fill that gap.

But for the information gap to set its hook, though, it can’t be ...