Know It All

The must-have guide to learning how to learn better and more efficiently by the winner of the Jeopardy Masters tournament and the World Quizzing Championships.

Victoria Groces job is to learn quickly and well—and shes really good at it. But she will be the first to stress that she is not especially gifted; she just knows how to learn. Here she reveals her evidence-based tricks and techniques so that you, too, can learn a new language, remember the specials on todays menu, or become a better reader.

When Victoria began researching memory retention, she found tried-and-true approaches that she had never been taught in school. She combined these insights with best practices from study hackers and tweaked them over time so that they worked more effectively. The proof was on television screens across the globe, as she won competition after competition and became a sought-after trivia expert.

With her evidence-based handbook, you will learn:

how the brain processes different types of information and what that means for learning the skills of pattern recognition and identifying the most relevant information in any context the method for moving new information into long-term memory why we forget or remember: the principles of spaced repetition and the forgetting curve how to apply it to yourself with b&w illustrations, graphs, and charts throughout

Whether youre looking to dominate trivia night, strengthen your brain over time, ace your exams, or learn a new skill at any age, Know It All will save you time and help make your brain as efficient as possible.