Habitual Learning Quotes

Then one day, we’ll put the reward in the old place, and put in the rat, and, by golloy, the old habit will rememerge right away. habits never really disappear. They’re encoded into the sturctures of our brain, and that’s a huge advantage for us, because it would be awful if we had to relearn how to drive after every vacation. The problem is that your brain can’t tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it’s always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.

Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you're addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn't available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It's a habit like all habits.

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

The way to know about championship quality is to learn from champions, and that I did; studying them with professional purpose during my time in the ring and from habitual interest afterward.

When kids are young, before the age of ten, there is a critical window of opportunity when their habits and motivations can be influenced.

One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.

It is good to preach the same thing again, for that's the way to have it learned

I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I wrote the day before.

A huge amount of success in life comes from learning as a child how to make good habits. It's good to help kids understand that when they do certain things habitually, they're reinforcing patterns.

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.