Cognitive Psychology

The brain has evolved to be excellent at remembering visual cues, but not as good at remembering abstract concepts like numbers. To remember a set of numbers, then, we just need to convert them into words that we can see and feel.

I recently completed Dr. Barbara Oakley’s very useful course, Learning How to Learn. I gained so many shareworthy insights that are helping me to study and remember things more efficiently and confidently that summarizing them in a post made much sense.