Very often, gleams of light come in a few minutes’ sleeplessness, in a secondperhaps; you must fix them. To entrust them to the relaxed brain is like writing on water; there is every chance that...

Prereading is a game changer. It changed my life…Everyone is smarter when they have seen the material before. You will be too.

The night before a biochemistry class, I read the last year’s lecture notes. I look at the pictures in the book. Now, I’ve got the general concept. Sure…There’s a couple of details to fill in...

You have to make your own condensed notes. You learn from MAKING them. A lot of thinking goes into deciding what to include and exclude. You develop your own system of abbreviations and memory methods...