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distractions
memory and, 156, 260
procrastination and, 84, 105, 107, 150–51, 151, 154
double-checking your work, 228, 233, 236, 247, 248, 249
Dragone, Debra Gassner, 60
Drozd, Trevor, 38
Duhigg, Charles, 93

Earl (lamb), 3
easy does it, 9–28, 253
See also diffuse mode of thinking; focused mode of thinking
eBay, 124
Edison, Thomas, 29, 30–31, 31, 32, 33, 111
Einstein, Albert, 189, 206, 206, 230, 230
Einstellung effect (getting stuck), 17, 25, 26, 27–28, 36–39, 38, 52, 146, 170, 186, 243
electricity, 168
electromagnetic waves, 202
Ellison, Larry, 216
Emmett, Rita, 85
emotional tone-deafness, 226
empathy, 220
encryptedness and complexity, 16–17
energy savings from habits, 93–94
engines, invention, 112
enhancing your memory. See memory
epidermis layers, 162
equation poems, 201–5
See also mind’s eye, developing through equation poems
“equation sheet bingo,” 229
“Equation Whisperer.” See chunking
Evernote, 138
evolution, 213
exercise and memory, 108, 178–79, 182
experimental notebook, 107
expertise from memory tricks, 179–81
expertise (increasing your) and reducing anxiety. See chunking
explanatory questioning (simplifying study material), 79, 207–8, 255, 258

failure and learning, 33, 41, 110–11, 219
FAQs, procrastination, 148–52
fear and creativity, 49–50
fears, facing your, 244–46, 248, 250–51
Felder, Richard, 239, 239–41
Feynman, Richard, 202, 207, 229–30, 232, 252–53, 255, 256
Fields Medal, 70
Fiore, Neil, 129
fishing techniques, 211
flash cards, 64, 138, 174, 257
flashlight metaphor, 18–19, 26