--- product_id: 49693983 title: "Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning" price: "AED 197" currency: AED in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.ae/products/49693983-make-it-stick-the-science-of-successful-learning store_origin: AE region: United Arab Emirates --- # Boosts long-term retention 1.5M+ copies sold worldwide Science-backed learning strategies Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning **Price:** AED 197 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🧠 Make It Stick: Because your brain deserves the best study hacks! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning - **How much does it cost?** AED 197 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ae](https://www.desertcart.ae/products/49693983-make-it-stick-the-science-of-successful-learning) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Trusted by Experts:** Endorsed by educators and elite trainers, including US Navy SEALs, for real-world learning advantage. - • **Universal Application:** Perfect for students, professionals, and lifelong learners aiming to elevate their knowledge game. - • **Master Durable Learning:** Say goodbye to cramming—embrace spaced repetition, interleaving, and self-testing for lasting mastery. - • **Proven Cognitive Science:** Unlock the secrets of memory with research-backed techniques that outperform traditional study habits. - • **Transform Your Study Habits:** Break free from ineffective routines and join millions who’ve revolutionized how they learn. ## Overview Make It Stick is an international bestseller with over 1.5 million copies sold, offering scientifically proven strategies to enhance learning and memory retention. Drawing on cutting-edge cognitive psychology, it debunks common ineffective study methods and provides practical techniques like spaced repetition and interleaving. Endorsed by educators and experts, this book is a must-have for anyone serious about mastering new skills and knowledge efficiently. ## Description The international bestseller that has helped millions of students, teachers, and lifelong learners use proven approaches to learn better and remember longer. Over 1.5 million copies sold worldwide. “We have made Make It Stick a touchstone for our instructors … to gain a real advantage for our learners as they tackle some of the toughest work in the world.” —Carl Czech, former Senior Instructional Systems Specialist/Advisor, US Navy SEALs Are you tired of forgetting what you learn? This groundbreaking book, based on the latest research in cognitive science, offers powerful strategies to boost memory and learning. To most of us, learning something “the hard way” means wasted time and effort. Good teaching, many believe, should be tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier. Make It Stick turns fashionable ideas like these on their head. Drawing on recent discoveries in cognitive psychology and a ten-year collaboration among some of the world’s leading experts on human learning and memory, the authors explain what really drives successful learning. With clear, real-world examples, they show how we can confidently hone our skills and learn more effectively. Many common study habits simply don’t work. Underlining, highlighting, rereading, cramming, and single-minded repetition of new skills create the illusion of mastery, but gains fade quickly. Science shows that more durable learning comes from self-testing, introducing certain difficulties in practice, waiting to re-study new material until a little forgetting has occurred, and interleaving the practice of one skill or topic with another. Make It Stick breaks down these proven approaches in compelling ways and offers concrete techniques for becoming more productive learners. Full of eye-opening and inspiring stories for students, educators, and parents, Make It Stick is an indispensable guide for all those interested in the challenge of lifelong learning and self-improvement. Review: What's Most Important to know? The contents of this book! - This book is potentially a life-changer for me. It's been about a month or so since I read the contents and started applying the core concepts of it into my own life. I cannot stress enough the difference I have noticed in my retention ability - this, on a very difficult topic, (C++ and Problem Solving). To give a little background into why I write the review, and to hopefully encourage others who might be similar to invest in this publication: I always wondered why I couldn't transfer an uncommon ability to absorb trivia into other parts of my life, especially in an academic context. When I was in high school, I was an exceptional sponge of knowledge, and placed well in national trivia competitions. Even after high school, I won pub quizzes as 'One Man At the Bar". Why couldn't I transfer this 'skill' to more important and worthwhile pursuits? I'd always been pretty relaxed (to the point of horizontal) in my approach to studying, with a toxic combination undermining my progress. I had a natural disinclination to study, as well as an acceptance of second best, all anchored down by an abysmal sense of self esteem. Despite all of this, I always reassured myself that I could achieve things if I 'actually' tried, and stayed safe in the knowledge that "if I really work at it, I could definitely do/learn it." Failures in anything were handwaved with 'I didn't try hard enough', which may or may not have been truthful - it's difficult to objectively analyse. However, having worked hard on eliminating the self-esteem problems over the last year, and setting the bar a lot higher for myself in terms of what I'd like to get out of life, I noticed I had surprising difficulties in retaining knowledge on C++ and Programming. I had assumed that sustained study with purpose and direction would finally allow me to 'take the handbrake off' on my learning, and find a better career in programming. It came as a rude shock to see me fail to grasp and retain information that, while not necessarily easy, is certainly something that other people seem able to master in a much shorter timeframe. After a little research into what might be slowing me down (it wasn't intelligence, memory, lack of interest, ADHD, etc...), I found this book - and I now realise I simply had never learned how to study properly! Put succinctly: I had never needed to! I more or less crammed or desperately squeezed what info I could into my head before any tests/assignments (some of which, looking back, I very badly let myself down in). On one occasion, I can remember being dishonest in an official exam, although with zero benefit from a moral or personal perspective. Anyway; this book has helped me retain very difficult information in a very short time frame. I'm finally able to reel off the kind of complicated knowledge presented in books like 'C++ Primer' (incidentally, an excellent book!) in the same way that I could casually recall trivia like country capitals, the monarchs reigning during certain historical events, or the creator of specific pieces of art. Certainly, this book will not turn one into a genius overnight (or indeed, ever!) - AND there is 'work' to be put into studying and the use/creation of spaced-repetition flashcards...but just find what works for you. I cannot recommend this book enough, and look forward to moving through life with the handbrake finally removed :) Review: Probably the best book on the subject - The subject is: the science of how to learn efficiently. A must read especially if you learn by rereading books, notes. This should be everyone's starting point before learning anything. This includes school learning, job training and sports. It details the proven scientific principles behind how effective learning works, and how most people learn ineffectively. What it includes: Scientifically proven methods of learning that work, and their ineffective, but popular counterparts (eg interleaving as supposed massed practice (eg rereading in rapid succession), testing as a tool of learning, memory aids) What it does NOT include: Physiological considerations: eat well, sleep well, don't use stimulants etc. The use of any type of software. How to make yourself motivated to study. (there's very minimal advice on that) Pros: A lot of books give good advice, but this one gives the best. It prioritises the most important aspects of learning ie the ones which will make the biggest difference. Has a large scope, but enough depth to provide good understanding. The format makes it very easy to understand the topic and the experiments qouted let you know that the information is proven and accurate. Cons: Does not suggest the use of any software even when it would be appropriate. Eg the use of paper flash cards was suggested once, but a flashcard software is superior in every sense. I think a bit more emphasis should have been on memory aids. Format: As you would expect from any good popular science based books, there are stories and examples so that you understand the principles and the short description of the results of experiments proving them (which are referenced). Very important: This lets you know how accurate the information is. It lets you separate proven facts from opinion and specualtion. (not like there's a lot of the latter in the book anyway) It's nice that the most important bits are summed up in the last chapter from the perspective of students, teachers etc. ## Features - Warning:Not suitable for children under 3 years. For use under adult supervision - Belknap Press ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | 57,243 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 2 in Educational Psychology 9 in Test Preparation for Young Adults 18 in Child & Developmental Psychology in Education | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 4,650 Reviews | ## Images ![Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51oB1-vPULL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ What's Most Important to know? The contents of this book! *by R***N on 30 July 2021* This book is potentially a life-changer for me. It's been about a month or so since I read the contents and started applying the core concepts of it into my own life. I cannot stress enough the difference I have noticed in my retention ability - this, on a very difficult topic, (C++ and Problem Solving). To give a little background into why I write the review, and to hopefully encourage others who might be similar to invest in this publication: I always wondered why I couldn't transfer an uncommon ability to absorb trivia into other parts of my life, especially in an academic context. When I was in high school, I was an exceptional sponge of knowledge, and placed well in national trivia competitions. Even after high school, I won pub quizzes as 'One Man At the Bar". Why couldn't I transfer this 'skill' to more important and worthwhile pursuits? I'd always been pretty relaxed (to the point of horizontal) in my approach to studying, with a toxic combination undermining my progress. I had a natural disinclination to study, as well as an acceptance of second best, all anchored down by an abysmal sense of self esteem. Despite all of this, I always reassured myself that I could achieve things if I 'actually' tried, and stayed safe in the knowledge that "if I really work at it, I could definitely do/learn it." Failures in anything were handwaved with 'I didn't try hard enough', which may or may not have been truthful - it's difficult to objectively analyse. However, having worked hard on eliminating the self-esteem problems over the last year, and setting the bar a lot higher for myself in terms of what I'd like to get out of life, I noticed I had surprising difficulties in retaining knowledge on C++ and Programming. I had assumed that sustained study with purpose and direction would finally allow me to 'take the handbrake off' on my learning, and find a better career in programming. It came as a rude shock to see me fail to grasp and retain information that, while not necessarily easy, is certainly something that other people seem able to master in a much shorter timeframe. After a little research into what might be slowing me down (it wasn't intelligence, memory, lack of interest, ADHD, etc...), I found this book - and I now realise I simply had never learned how to study properly! Put succinctly: I had never needed to! I more or less crammed or desperately squeezed what info I could into my head before any tests/assignments (some of which, looking back, I very badly let myself down in). On one occasion, I can remember being dishonest in an official exam, although with zero benefit from a moral or personal perspective. Anyway; this book has helped me retain very difficult information in a very short time frame. I'm finally able to reel off the kind of complicated knowledge presented in books like 'C++ Primer' (incidentally, an excellent book!) in the same way that I could casually recall trivia like country capitals, the monarchs reigning during certain historical events, or the creator of specific pieces of art. Certainly, this book will not turn one into a genius overnight (or indeed, ever!) - AND there is 'work' to be put into studying and the use/creation of spaced-repetition flashcards...but just find what works for you. I cannot recommend this book enough, and look forward to moving through life with the handbrake finally removed :) ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Probably the best book on the subject *by L***I on 19 March 2015* The subject is: the science of how to learn efficiently. A must read especially if you learn by rereading books, notes. This should be everyone's starting point before learning anything. This includes school learning, job training and sports. It details the proven scientific principles behind how effective learning works, and how most people learn ineffectively. What it includes: Scientifically proven methods of learning that work, and their ineffective, but popular counterparts (eg interleaving as supposed massed practice (eg rereading in rapid succession), testing as a tool of learning, memory aids) What it does NOT include: Physiological considerations: eat well, sleep well, don't use stimulants etc. The use of any type of software. How to make yourself motivated to study. (there's very minimal advice on that) Pros: A lot of books give good advice, but this one gives the best. It prioritises the most important aspects of learning ie the ones which will make the biggest difference. Has a large scope, but enough depth to provide good understanding. The format makes it very easy to understand the topic and the experiments qouted let you know that the information is proven and accurate. Cons: Does not suggest the use of any software even when it would be appropriate. Eg the use of paper flash cards was suggested once, but a flashcard software is superior in every sense. I think a bit more emphasis should have been on memory aids. Format: As you would expect from any good popular science based books, there are stories and examples so that you understand the principles and the short description of the results of experiments proving them (which are referenced). Very important: This lets you know how accurate the information is. It lets you separate proven facts from opinion and specualtion. (not like there's a lot of the latter in the book anyway) It's nice that the most important bits are summed up in the last chapter from the perspective of students, teachers etc. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A good guide to learning but one that drags on unnecessarily. *by B***N on 5 October 2020* I like the book overall. The tips themselves are great for students and the scientific studies mentioned are great for both educators and scientists working in cognitive psychology. The main issue I would have with the book is that it drags on unnecessarily by invoking long-winded stories that, in my opinion, add next to nothing to the substance of the book. It's a 250-page book that could be reduced to around 100-150 pages without the stories, but well worth buying overall. My advice when reading: extract the key points using sticky tabs/flags/highlighter and type those up as a step-by-step guide for specific forms of studying and then print those off to stick on the wall. ## Frequently Bought Together - Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning - Uncommon Sense Teaching: Practical Insights in Brain Science to Help Students Learn - Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.ae/products/49693983-make-it-stick-the-science-of-successful-learning](https://www.desertcart.ae/products/49693983-make-it-stick-the-science-of-successful-learning) --- *Product available on Desertcart United Arab Emirates* *Store origin: AE* *Last updated: 2026-08-27*