Don't start with the details. Start with the key ideas, and in a hierarchical fashion, form the details around these larger notions.

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

To improve short-term memory significantly, reduce the stress in your life. And choose your parents wisely.

What's obvious to you is obvious to you.

The ability to double our biomass - not by waiting several million years and growing to be the size of an elephant - but waiting a few hundred thousand years for neurons to sprout into our brains - ones capable of having us create emotional relationships with other members of our species. We thereby double our biomass not by getting bigger, but by creating an ally.

Human learning is a very aggressive style in its native state. I am not sure why, though it is a very useful trait in an unstable, unpredictable living environment.

The brain remembers the emotional component of an experience better than any other aspect.