Women tend to recall the details of an emotionally competent stimulus, using more of their left hemisphere to do the processing. Men tend to recall the gist aspects of an emotionally competent stimulus, using more of their right hemisphere to do the processing.

What you do and learn in life physically changes what your brain looks like—it literally rewires it.

The more senses recruited at the moment of learning, the more likely you are to recall it later.

If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you would probably design something like a classroom.

You can practice for 30 years and still not be a Mozart. The most lethal combination would be a Mozart who practiced for thousands of hours.

Not even identical twins can have the exact same experiences, and their brains are not wired the same way.

What's obvious to you is obvious to you.