This class should be taught to everyone in school, no later than the fourth grade! I loved the material and found it to be immensely interesting. I utilized some of these techniques without even knowing it, but the ones I adopted from the course will serve me for a lifetime. So much to gain from this class, and it is so short, you would be crazy not to go through it.

I really liked this course. Dr. Oakley did a great job. I've already used some of the methods mentioned in this course to go after some work certifications that I've had difficulty with. I am a huge procrastinator and I felt like this course was created for me and people like me to try and get a handle on my ever challenging issue that I battle with everyday.

Thank you

This course is definitely an eye-opener not only for learning in academics, but in learning in life in general! Not only was it super interesting through and through, but it was actually very practical. It literally gives you the tools to be able to tackle any challenging task that involves learning, time and effort. I wish I had taken this before or while in college!

This course was really helpful, first of all in general and everyday life, learning how to control your bad habbits and to understand how your brain really works.

It helped me in my learning experience, by so many skills and to understand that I'm able to learn something new in my life and improve it and the using it to make a good success in my life.

Thank you so much.

Great course! It helps me a lot with my learning routine, show me what works and what doesn´t work based on a neurological level and how to change my learning habits. Many useful techniques on how to learn, how to remember, why we procrastinate and why we feel stress and how to deal with it. It´s necessary for everybody who wants to improve his life, not just grades.

A great course which provided valuable insight in the importance of learning effectively. I am especially appreciative of the material that I was presented with, and am grateful of the lessons that the instructors provided me. Now, on to Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential, which I believe will also be an excellent course.

Truly amazing course! I was having a lot of problems before I started it and it gave me a lot of useful tips. I am not going to lie to you - this is not some secret key to life and success that magically transforms every aspect of your learning, but if you follow the guidelines and practice you will see real change. 10/10 would and already have recommended to friends.

For a free course, this was very useful. I found myself talking about the things I was learning in this course while I was taking it and I was more aware of why my brain was doing certain things. I feel I am more prepared to take on new material easier and more efficiently which will be very helpful in my area of study - machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Great course with even greater material. Loved both the instructor, especially Dr. Barbara Oakley. She has such a nice voice and composure of a heavenly teacher that it just inspires you from the inside. I wish I would have gotten a teacher like her in my earlier life. Still, I will carry the lessons in my future learnings and definitely teach my kids the same things.

First of all, thanks for everything, Coursera!! I can't even put it into words how much what I've learned here is helping me! I'd like to thank you all from the bottom of my heart! I'm simply overwhelmed with many things I simply had no idea that could be blocking my learning path! I can't wait to see the other coursera's videos!

Thanks for the knowledge!!

Best wishes!!

A great beginner course for all people of different backgrounds. There really is plenty of scope to explore and share ideas. Also the more you put into the course the more you get out of it. The presentation was enthusiastic and lively. provides good grounding to go further into many subjects of how we learn and also become more effective in life long learning sector.

Although many of good learning ideas mentioned in this course can be seen somewhere, it is the vivid and clear way of teaching that make the course wonderful and let the ideas be easy to remember. Besides, optional interviews are really helpful because the interviewers from different fields provided many excellent learning tips and habitats, it can broaden your view.

From this course I learned some skills that help me focus on the tough materials and sharpen my mind on my long-term goals. By concentrating on the process, which is the concept I learned from here, I am more able to accomplish more even if there is a lot of difficulties during my journey of success. I really appreciate Barbara and Terry for their brilliant lectures!

Well, this course is one of best course I've ever participated in. In middle of course I bought dr Barbara Oakley book "A Mind for Numbers:" in my native language Polish (Głowa do liczb), and it's very very good. I strongly believe that this course will improve my scholar skills. Every participant should note that this course is not about theory but everyday practice!

I love this course and I would love to recommend to others to take part in this course, and to understand themselves better because there is more happening internally and externally which we not aware of. Let us learn and let us work because at the end of the day we not victims of our circumstance by victims of our minds. Thank you! much appreciated to all LHTL team.

SUCH a FANTASTIC course! A real life-changer. I cannot even begin to express the tremendous positive impact these lessons have had on me. This course content should be a fundamental component of school curriculums everywhere. Also, the course book 'A Mind for Numbers' is excellent. Thank-you SO, SO much to the entire team responsible for putting this course together.

El curso es muy fácil y divertido de seguir. La información es muy valiosa para entender cómo funciona el cerebro (estudiar, aprender, recordar y generar nuevas ideas).

Este curso da las herramientas para conocer cómo funciona nuestro cerebro y optimizar nuestro día a día. Todo estudio (primaria, secundaria, maestría, etc.) sería mucho más fácil si comenzara por aquí.

I wish I poped into this course when I was a student. It would have allowed me to use 5 years spent in university more effectively. But better late than never, I still have plenty of time to learn bunch of stuff. This course in not only about different techniques and tricks to boost your learning, but it also can give you a new perspective on your abilities to learn.

Loved it! Very, very useful. Will recommend it to anybody interested in learning continuously. It was a pity, though, that among all the personalities interviewed there was only ONE woman and that women were rarely mentioned as exemples of successful scientists or people who mastered the art of learning. Would strongly appreciate if you made an effort to change that.

I loved both the professors in this course, especially Dr. Barbara Oakley. Her enthusiasm for the material and goofy but genuine personality kept me engaged. I also found the material covered here very useful - I have already started applying it in my learning of guitar and Chinese - and I plan on retaking the course in the future when I go back for my second degree.

This course provides a useful foundation about how we learn, in addition to useful strategies to help improve our ability to learn by adjusting our environment, our expectations, and techniques. Some of the best parts of this course are the optional reading resources and interviews. I certainly wish I had this insight when I was just beginning high school or college.

I wish I had known about these learning techniques as I struggled through high school and some college. Kids of all ages should have access to the techniques and tips presented by these great instructors. And teachers of those kids should definitely know these techniques so they don't pound kids with the wrong ways to learn . . or not learn, as it so often turns out.

A marvelous course that has helped me a lot in pinpointing nonefficient study techniques I've been using so far. The course presented a lot of science-based techniques that manipulate the particularities of the brain, transforming potential weaknesses into valuable insights. I think it was the first online course I actually made myself finish. I highly recommend it!

It's a great course, which is very helpful to learn some difficult things. Thanks very much. The only problem is my English is too weak to follow the English subtitle, so I have to use Chinese subtitle. Anyway, the course teach me how to learn in a better way, I will introduce it to my students. Thanks again. BTW, it's my first course which is finished in Coursera.

The course was vary enjoyable and extremely practical. Every idea presented is very easily applicable and very valuable to any active learner. Moreover, the course itself is organised to be studied very effectively, and facilitates high retention of the material. Additionally, optional reading allows for a broader perspective and deepened exploration of the material.