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Christine Cahoon   Mon 04 Aug 2014   updated: Mon 09 Oct 2017

A new book tells you how to change your habits to improve at math, scienceā€¦

Here's an article about the book: How to help your mind work...

Barbara Oakey's book is called A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)

Charles Dickens, perhaps the greatest of the Victorian novelists, was a man of strict routine. Every day, Dickens would write from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. After that, he would put his work away and go out for a long walk. Sometimes he walked as far as 30 miles; sometimes, he walked into the night. "If I couldn't walk fast and far, I should just explode and perish," Dickens wrote.

Worth rethinking how we work...