Was reviewed in the NYT this weekend. Some of the more philosophical mustachian principles at play here...
http://www.amazon.com/How-We-Learn-Surprising-Happens/dp/0812993888In “How We Learn,” Benedict Carey tells us to ease up, take a break, get a good night’s sleep and stop the cramming. Instead of beating our brains into submission through 10,000 hours of drudgery, we need to study smarter, not harder.
Carey, a New York Times science reporter, begins his book with a confession: He once was a grind. Like those high-school students in South Korea, he was “the kid who sweated the details, who made flashcards. A striver, a grade-hog, a worker bee.” Then, after being rejected by all but one of the colleges to which he had applied, and dropping out after a year, “I loosened my grip,” he writes. “I stopped sprinting.”
The softer approach, which he jokingly refers to as “freeing the inner slacker,” worked well enough for him to eventually obtain degrees in mathematics and journalism before landing at The Times in 2004.
