Adam Grant: “Creativity may be difficult to nurture, but it is easy to thwart.”

“For learning that is both durable and flexible, ‘fast and easy’ is precisely the problem.”

Generation effect: struggling to generate an answer on your own, even a wrong one, enhances subsequent learning

Learning deeply means learning slowly

“Teachers and students must avoid interpreting current performance as learning. Good performance on a test during the learning process can indicate mastery, but learners and teachers need to be aware that such performance will often index, instead, fast but fleeting progress.”

“Knowledge with enduring utility must be very flexible, composed of mental schemes that can be matched to new problems.”

Power of analogies (relational thinking) helps make familiar new and new familiar

Einstellung effect: the tendency of problem solvers to employ only familiar methods even if better ones are available (the negative effect of previous experience when solving new problems)