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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition

Marc Reisner

4.7 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Calculus: Early Transcendentals

James Stewart , Daniel K. Clegg, et al.

4.2 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots

James Suzman

4.7 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Calculus

James Stewart

4.4 on Amazon

3 HN comments

The Hidden Life of Trees: The Illustrated Edition

Peter Wohlleben and Jane Billinghurst

4.9 on Amazon

3 HN comments

A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)

Barbara Oakley PhD

4.6 on Amazon

3 HN comments

The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

David Deutsch, Walter Dixon, et al.

4.6 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Carl Jung, James Cameron Stewart, et al.

4.7 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Robert M. Sapolsky

4.7 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

Steven Pinker, Arthur Morey, et al.

4.5 on Amazon

3 HN comments

A Brief History of Time

Stephen Hawking

4.7 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths, et al.

4.6 on Amazon

3 HN comments

The God Delusion

Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward, et al.

4.5 on Amazon

2 HN comments

R for Data Science: Import, Tidy, Transform, Visualize, and Model Data

Hadley Wickham and Garrett Grolemund

4.7 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Simple Techniques to Instantly Overcome Depression, Relieve Anxiety, and Rewire Your Brain

Olivia Telford

4.5 on Amazon

2 HN comments

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mickaelP38onJuly 31, 2021

You will find lots of information on this topic on this blog:
https://commoncog.com/blog/tag/learning-techniques/

Also if you want to level up your skills, and learn about learning in general, these are some books you should check:

- Practice perfect

- Peak

- A mind for numbers

- The inner game of tennis

- Guitar zero

- The art of learning

shimeonMay 23, 2021

This happens to me all the time, especially when I get stuck on a programming problem. It's counter-intuitive, but sometimes the best approach is to take a step back and stop actively thinking about it.

If you're more interested in this phenomenon, I recommend reading "A Mind For Numbers" by Barbara Oakley [1].

She calls it "the diffuse mode" and it's useful for spotting similarities and making connections between different concepts and ideas. This is difficult to do in "the focused mode", when you're analytically working on a problem.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Numbers-Science-Flunked-Algebra-...

TheAdamAndCheonJune 9, 2021

A Mind for Numbers is the one I read. It also goes well with her Coursera course Learning How to Learn.
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