Now I am currently reading “A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science” by Barbara Oakley. It is a magnificent book. I am just finishing the third chapter and I know it is one of the best books I have read in the last 12 months. She basically gives lots of insights about learning processes with a focus on mathematics and science but basically for everything. She quotes a few of the authors I have appreciated before like Terrence Deacon. She dispels several myths. I have read quite a few books on neuroscience – for laymen and speciaists – and some on learning in general. There are everywhere good pieces of advise, useful reminders of things most of us know, some new approaches. She is yet another one of those authors and yet she describes the importance of some of them is very good: ways for switching between a focused and an unfocused mode of thinking, for instance, or about dealing with the Einstellung effect.

I am just starting and I am very happy.