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The Best Ways to Study

Outsmart Your Brain

Daniel T. Willingham

Make Learning Matter

Build Connections for Classrooms

Reflect on how your personal interests, hobbies, and goals relate to what you’re learning in school.

How to Enter Flow State

Wonder: Childhood and the Lifelong Love of Science

Frank Keil

The Case for Curiosity

The Right Question Institute

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A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life

Brian Grazer and Charles Fishman

Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, and Mark A. McDaniel

Teaching Curiosity

What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

Randall Munroe

The Neuroscience of Curiosity

Cultivating Good Minds: A Philosophical and Practical Guide to Educating for Intellectual Virtues

Jason Baehr

The Hungry Mind: The Origins of Curiosity in Childhood

Susan Engel

Asking Why

Prepared: What Kids Need for a Fulfilled Life

Diane Tavenner
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