Study shows how taking short breaks may help our brains learn new skills
Its not just short breaks. Effect of a good night&#x27;s sleep are almost magical in this respect.<p>Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker is filled with examples on how sleep plays an outsized role in our lives.<p>One relevant example from the book that comes to mind is an experiment where they instructed some college students to type out a particular sequence of characters on a keyboard and then measured their performance across two days. The group which had a good night&#x27;s sleep had dramatic improvement in their typing coordination overnight.<p>Apparently the author got an insight to pursue deeper into cognitive effects of sleep after a chance encounter with a pianist after a speech he gave on benefits of sleep, where the pianist told him how he struggled with new compositions on evenings and then magically gets them right after a good night&#x27;s sleep.