Education
18 ideas, each explained on one page with a 60-second lesson you can play right there.
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Attention Span
Attention span is the amount of time someone concentrates on a task before becoming distracted.
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Cognitive reframing
Cognitive reframing is a technique where you identify and change the way you view situations, thoughts, or emotions.
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Distraction
Distraction is the process of pulling attention away from a chosen focus, which blocks or reduces the intake of relevant information.
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Executive Function
Executive function is the brain network that overrides automatic impulses to plan, remember information, and hit long-term goals.
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Forgetting curve
The forgetting curve shows that memory loss is steepest right after learning.
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Goal setting
Specific, hard targets systematically outperform easy goals and do-your-best advice by focusing attention, effort, and persistence.
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Harry Harlow
Harry Harlow was an American psychologist who studied maternal separation, dependency, and social isolation in rhesus monkeys.
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Marshmallow Test
The Marshmallow Test is a classic psychology experiment where children choose between one immediate treat or two if they wait alone for 15 minutes.
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Operant Conditioning
Operant conditioning is a learning process where voluntary actions change based on the rewards or punishments that follow them.
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Personal Finance Fundamentals
Personal finance covers budgeting, saving, and investing.
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Pomodoro Technique
The Pomodoro Technique is a time-management method that splits work into focused 25-minute intervals separated by mandatory short breaks.
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Practice (learning method)
Practice is the act of rehearsing a behavior repeatedly to help learn, maintain, or master a skill.
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Procrastination
Procrastination is needless delay to dodge a task's bad feelings; the relief keeps it going.
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Self-efficacy
Self-efficacy is an individual's belief in their ability to act in the ways necessary to achieve a specific goal.
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Spaced repetition
Spaced repetition is a learning method where you review information at increasing intervals of time instead of all at once.
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Testing effect
The testing effect is the memory boost from recalling information instead of rereading it.
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The Ant and the Grasshopper
Aesop's fable contrasts work and improvidence, evolving from a harsh ancient survival rule into debates on charity and art.
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Time Management
Time management is the practice of consciously planning and controlling how much time you spend on specific activities.