Barbara Oakley

“The harder you push your brain to come up with something creative, the less creative your ideas will be. So far, I…

— Barbara Oakley

“Why Trying Too Hard Can Sometimes Be Part of the Problem”

— Barbara Oakley

Welcome to the psychiatric hotline: if you are obsessive compulsive press one repeatedly. If you are schizophrenic listen closely and a little…

— Barbara Oakley

“Thiss sentence contains threee errors.”

— Barbara Oakley

“Habit is an energy saver for us. It allows us to free our mind for other types of activities.”

— Barbara Oakley

Psychopaths know intellectually what is immoral they just don't have a feeling of immorality about it.

— Barbara Oakley

“Interleaving means practice by doing a mixture of different kinds of problems requiring different strategies.”

— Barbara Oakley

“The key is to do something else until your brain is consciously free of any thought of the problem.”

— Barbara Oakley

“Attempting to recall the material you are trying to learn—retrieval practice—is far more effective than simply rereading the material.”

— Barbara Oakley

“If you are trying to understand or figure out something new, your best bet is to turn off your precision-focused thinking and…

— Barbara Oakley

“whatever you’re learning, see whether you can make a metaphor to help yourself understand the most difficult topic—you’ll be surprised at how…

— Barbara Oakley

“Over the past decades, students who have blindly followed their passion, without rational analysis of whether their choice of career truly was…

— Barbara Oakley

“We procrastinate about things that make us feel uncomfortable.”

— Barbara Oakley

“Focused problem solving in math and science is often more effortful than focused-mode thinking involving language and people.”

— Barbara Oakley

“You may want your learning to progress more quickly—to somehow command your diffuse mode to assimilate new ideas faster. But compare it…

— Barbara Oakley

“the learning process is all about working your way out of confusion.”

— Barbara Oakley

Tomorrow is another day, we rather hope it will be better but better it won't be unless self-foibles are examined.

— Barbara Oakley

“What we value so much, the altruistic “good” side of human nature, can also have a dark side. Altruism can be the…

— Barbara Oakley

“THE LAW OF SERENDIPITY Remember, Lady Luck favors the one who tries. So don’t feel overwhelmed with everything you need to learn…

— Barbara Oakley

“If you don’t make a point of repeating what you want to remember, your “metabolic vampires” can suck away the neural pattern…

— Barbara Oakley

“Complex training environments such as action video game play may actually foster brain plasticity and learning.”

— Barbara Oakley