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A Mind for Numbers

A Mind for Numbers

Barbara Oakley
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“Oakley wrote this after failing math repeatedly as a young adult and later earning a PhD in engineering. It operationalizes the focused/diffuse mode distinction and shows how procrastination and illusions of competence sabotage learning. More practical than most neuroscience-adjacent books.”

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