Losing focus? Try distractions, multitasking, music, & breaks
The number one assumed threat to focusing at work is distractions. But getting rid of distractions isn’t enough for focusing. Some people can concentrate without …
7 Bad Study Habits Students Need To Ditch ASAP
Instead of focusing on the most productive study habits, students can improve their grades and learning quality just by getting rid of their bad study …
Basic Concepts About Concept Formation: Theory + Key Terms
How well do you know what a pizza is? Round, saucy, cheesy, comes in a box, served in triangles, right? Now do you know what …
Metacognition & Metamemory Explained: Awareness, Reflection, Learning, and Mental health
If you’ve ever thought about why you made certain decisions in the past, you’ve engaged in metacognition. Metacognition, commonly called “thinking about thinking,” is a …
What is Brain Fog & Mental Fatigue? How to get rid of it?
If you’ve ever experienced a lot of mental fuzziness, daylong drowsiness, and lack of clarity in thinking, you may have brain fog. It can be …
How to be an Expert at Anything: 3 Secrets + 3 Solutions
If you are here, you are probably an expert at something or trying to be one. You may have heard that it takes 10,000 hours …
How to learn from Videos: Note-taking, Subtitles, & Speed
Summary: Studies show you can learn from video content more efficiently by speeding up the video during revision, using subtitles, and taking notes strategically because …
15 Ways to Trigger the Brain’s Creative Thinking Mode
Spontaneous creativity through the default mode network’s activation – Considering it was 3 am, and I was sleepy-hungry, my brain’s attention was directed inward, and …
How Metaphors and Analogies reveal the Truth about our Universe
Some people say the mind is a universe in itself. Others have argued that the mind is the software and the brain is the hardware. …
Why We Justify Big Events With Big Causes: Balancing causes with effects is an error
When something big happens, did something big cause it? Did the cause of a pandemic have to be a big event? Was a typo in …
Cognitive Distortions: 11 Deep Errors in Thinking
All of our perceptions may be biased & inaccurate. Our brains evolved in a very different context for hundreds of thousands of years. Evolution made …
What’s the best way to learn anything? 16 Tips from science.
We are lucky that our brains are readily capable of learning new things by design. Even when we are not motivated? We grow about 700 …
Infinite Benefits of Mindfulness: Panacea for Cognition & Life? Not exactly.
There is a lot of talk about the benefits of mindfulness and mindfulness meditation. It’s almost common knowledge that mindfulness can positively affect our emotions …
Who appears intelligent? Why are some of them childish?
There is a general stereotype that intelligent or super-intelligent people are childish or immature. Why is that? Apart from the fact that some people appear …
Kids reason that Caged Animals are Owned but Free ones aren’t
Summary: A new study argues that children reason if an animal is owned or not based on how much control the owner has on the …
The psychology of Humor or “how to kill a joke 101”
Are you the humorous one in your social group? Do you try to be funny? I know I try. But let’s be honest, those puns …