You Can Rewire Your Brain Analysis

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After reading the article “Learning to learn: You, Too, Can Rewire Your Brain” by John Shwartz, I not only respect open online courses which Dr. Oakley motivates and inspires many students but also have possibilities to apply useful techniques to difficult World Religion course.
First, taking a break between focused section helps consolidation occurs. As she mentioned, the brain needs take a brief break after a burst of focused work because bits of information got from materials and other sources connect together to enhance knowledge consolidation. Actually, this is not the first time I know about this technique. In the book “I am gifted, so are you” by Adam Khoo, a Singaporean serial entrepreneur, author and trainer, he said that everyone

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