According to Bourne and Healy, both professors of psychology at the University of Colorado, really learning a new skill rests upon three legs of a stool: efficiency, durability and "generalizability." This practical volume outlines the best strategies for achieving each of these. But the reader is not left to just take their word for it. Instead, each of the how-to chapters comes with four to eight learning experiments that allow the reader to see for themselves whether the presented ideas work. The volume closes with a final chapter that examines the evidence for common assumptions such as physical exercise also improves mind fitness. Both of the authors have spent a good amount of professional time working with the university's Center for Research on Training. Annotation ©2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)