“If you want to make information stick, it's best to learn it, go away from it for a while, come back to it later, leave it behind again, and once again return to it - to engage with it deeply across time. Our memories naturally degrade, but each time you return to a memory, you reactivate its neural”

“People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing.”