Learn: Twenty tales about the mind that will not sit still

Somewhere, right now, a child is being handed a number — a score, a reading level, a coloured dot on a screen — and is quietly learning to read it as a verdict on who they are. Learn brings the news that should have come first: no mind is fixed. Twenty short tales on the science of their own minds — memory and sleep, attention and practice, the way praise and failure shape a brain that rebuilds it...