Outsmart Your Brain offers specific strategies for reading, listening, and taking tests, covering the practical aspects like optimum note taking, how to read difficult books, and good exam technique, coupled with the psychological challenges of dealing with anxiety, fighting procrastination, and developing good focus.

Smart, enlightening, and immensely practical, this is an ideal book for university students, as well as for older children and adult learners studying for the bar, medical exams, or other professional qualifications. Also useful for teachers of all ages and stages, Outsmart Your Brain is a handbook for successful learning, teaching you how to battle your brain's own mechanisms to study more efficiently, vastly improve your grades, and make learning a genuinely fun experience.