Research, in plain language
14 postsThe studies behind our posts, and where each one turns into something you can do. Every finding is cited on its page.
Embracing stress beats reducing it: a mindset shift that improves health, well-being, and performance. — Stanford Report
Shift the mindset → Research"Brain rot" and doomscrolling impair memory and attention. — Brain Sciences
Study with your phone away → ResearchMotivation grows from three needs: autonomy, competence, and relatedness. — APA
Find your three → ResearchStudents are intrinsically motivated when their autonomy is supported. — Review of Educational Research
What moves you → ResearchInner-fulfilment motives predict less academic distress. — Journal of Happiness Studies
Name your why → ResearchHealthy sleep helps the brain process emotion and prepare for the next day. — Annual Review of Clinical Psychology
Sleep and your feelings → ResearchStructure, imaginative play, even movement can improve executive function. — J. Experimental Child Psychology
What builds it → ResearchEach kind of engagement does a different job for your learning. — Educational Psychology Review
Four ways in → ResearchSelf-regulated learning raises performance and motivation alike. — Contemporary Educational Psychology
Learn how to learn → ResearchHigh-quality interaction with AI tools deepens learning by lowering cognitive load. — Frontiers in Psychology
Use AI to learn → ResearchHow AI is designed (and paired with people) shapes performance at work. — MIT Sloan
Work with AI → ResearchMusic supports cognitive, emotional, and physical wellbeing, and neuroplasticity. — Brain, Behavior, & Immunity
Sound and the brain → ResearchHeat lowers cognitive performance and raises irritability and impulsivity. — APA
Working in the heat → ResearchTest worry harms grades and wellbeing; success still lifts life satisfaction. — Frontiers in Psychology
When the exam goes blank →Did you know?
20 factsThe little learning-science facts we post (all twenty of them) live in one interactive place, each with a small thing to try. These six are a taste; the rest are one tap away.
Your brain physically changes when it learns. It's called neuroplasticity.
Open all twenty → Did you know?Focus on one thing at a time. The brain can't really multitask.
The cost of switching → Did you know?Space out your studying, you'll remember the material better.
Test and space it → Did you know?Teach others what you know. It helps you learn the material better.
Why it works → Did you know?Don't forget breaks, they help you tackle difficult problems.
Run a focus sprint → Did you know?Thinking about your own thinking (metacognition) helps you learn.
How your brain learns →Lines worth keeping
22 quotesThe quotes we post, gathered on one wall, the kind of line worth writing on the inside cover of a notebook.
"The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it—even when it's not going well—is the hallmark of the growth mindset."
Carol Dweck
"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you."
B.B. King
"Through others, we become ourselves."
Lev Vygotsky
"The principal goal of education is to create people who are capable of doing new things."
Jean Piaget
"Our potential is one thing. What we do with it is quite another."
Angela Duckworth
"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently."
Maya Angelou
"Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create."
Maria Montessori
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."
Albert Einstein
"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."
John Dewey
"The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy."
bell hooks
"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."
Socrates
"Learning never exhausts the mind."
Leonardo da Vinci
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
C.S. Lewis
"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
Toni Morrison
"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."
Jane Goodall
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
Isaac Newton
"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
Marcel Proust
"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."
Theodore Roosevelt
"Research is formalized curiosity."
Zora Neale Hurston
"And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good."
John Steinbeck
"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking."
Joan Didion
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