The Hard Truth About Effective Studying

So a key theme in all of the excellent literature, that is the peer-reviewed research on how

best to study, is that studying that feels challenging is the most effective.I know nobody wants

to hear this. Everyone wants to hear about flow, everybody wants to hear about information

just sinking into their brain by osmosis. I think it was a Garfield cartoon where he talked

about learning by osmosis. There's this very cute Real World video of a kid in

a classroom, uh, I believe, uh, it's in China,

where he's taking the book and he puts it on his head, maybe I can find this clip,

and he's just kind of, like, w- trying to wash it into his brain.