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.

I went to school for more than 20 years and I have been working for over 15 years, yet this course taught me thinks I wished I had known 30 years ago. I am sure it will help me a better learner, more focused and it will take me less effort to learn new things (which I have already started by the way, applying some of the techniques from the course). Thanks for that.

Wow. Simply loved this course. Really helpful and life changing habbits learning how to learn is probably the first thing we all ought to learn when young children. 28 now. But it is never to late to learn how to learn.

Thank you for putting together such a tremendous course. I would like to have the certificate for it however it is too expensive for me at this time.

Turns out I had no idea how to learn effectively and a lot of techniques I was taught growing up, like highlighting or re-reading material, were well-meaning lies and misconceptions.

Also it spells out procrastination and how to handle it in a way that clicked for me, more so than any forum on mental health that I'd found so far, so that's been exceptionally helpful.

It is really very interesting and helpful in understanding how our brain works and how learning develops. It provides tips for avoiding bad habits that make studying difficult and points the way to effective methods to improve one's learning skills. Useful knowledge for anyone who approaches to study any subject. The course is developed in a pleasant and simple way.

Easily one of the best instructional courses/material I have ever engaged with. Barbara's empathetic nature in combination with the structured way the course has done made this experience not only informative, but enjoyable. It does make you wonder why schools have not yet started to implement this as a course or a mandatory requirement to advance to the next grade.