In fact, I find as I get older that real learning takes more work. The more I fill my brain with facts, figures, and experience, the less room I have for new ideas and new thoughts. Plus, now I have all sorts of opinions that may refute the ideas being pushed at me.If you are in a lecture, Google them after for answers. If you are in a conversation you can ask the other person. Either way you'll likely learn more, and the action of thinking up questions will help encode the concepts in your brain.

An example that's pretty understandably made in this era of heightened awareness of head trauma and its devastating after effects. The snap judgment is pretty easy to arrive at in his case: Collie seems as if he's tempting fate to continue his football career. He's 27, missed all or significant parts of two out of his four NFL seasons due to injury, and now he's got the knee issue to overcome in addition to wearing a scarlet "C'' on his jersey, (and it doesn't stand for capt