
#024 - Peter C Brown - The Science Of Successful Learning Habits
Modern Wisdom
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The Importance of Mental Toughness in Sport
When you learn new things, especially you rise up the complexity of the topic you're dealing with, you are increasing your intellectual ability. There's more research that needs to be done about whether a belief in and an understanding of this ability to improve your brain is actually a motivator for people. You need to be kind of a coach to your own brain saying, I know this doesn't feel too good, but guess what? It's really going to pay off. The concept of desirable difficulties is it's something that shy of definition as we've done today is probably hard for people to actually work out where it's right.
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