Tony: During my sophomore year in college, one day I strode to the library excitedly and asked the librarian where I could find a book about the human brain and how to use it. She immediately directed me to the medical library!
I explained to her that I didn't want brain surgery, I just wanted to know how to use my brain. She told me in a very customer-oriented manner that there was no such book.
I left the library in great amazement.
Like people around me, I have also experienced a common "pilgrimage" among college students: I slowly realized that the increasing amount of reading of academic works requires more thinking skills, creativity, memory, solving and analysis. The brain begins to yield under the pressure of problem solving and writing. And, like others, I experienced that not only was I learning less and less, but I was learning more and more nothing at all. The more notes I took and the harder I studied, the worse my grades got!
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