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“Old dogs can learn new tricks. Not only that, but can perhaps learn them even better than young dogs-once they get over the notion that they can't learn them.”

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Book:Never Too Late: My Musical Life Story

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“The difference between predictions and outcomes is the key to understanding a strange property of learning: if you’re predicting perfectly, your brain doesn’t need to change further… Changes in the brain happen only when there’s a difference between what was expected and what actually happens.”

Brain Learning

Book:Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain

Source: Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain

“Figuring out what you don't know or aren't sure of is the greatest intellectual skill of all.”

Education Learning Intelect

Book:Learning All the Time

Source: Learning All the Time

“In a world thronged with monsters and with gods, we know little peace of mind. There is hardly a single action we perform in that phase which we would not give anything, in later life, to be able to annul. Whereas what we ought to regret is that we no longer possess the spontaneity which made us perform them. In later life we look at things in a more practical way, in full conformity with the rest of society, but adolescence is the only period in which we learn anything.”

Wisdom Choices History Learning Youth Regret Perspective Conformity Spontaneity

Book:Within a Budding Grove

Source: Within a Budding Grove

“Fear of failure is a powerful thing. But what you don’t see ... is that failure allows you to grow. To get better. To learn. It is a part of life. And it’s a good thing.”

Learning Failure

Book:Outscored

Source: Outscored

“If you are ready to learn and evolve, there is hope for you yet - if not, the world will pity you for a few days and forget you after a week.”

Growth Education Knowledge Learning Ignorance Prejudice Learn Self Determination Superstitions Self Reliance

Book:Servitude is Sanctitude

Source: Servitude is Sanctitude

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