Hum a familiar tune from your youth while you try to learn something that needs to become habitual
It reminds your brain of when you used to just accept new input unquestionably and flips your procedural memory into 'write mode' easier.
Honest, it works, I do bits of the 'War Of The Worlds' music myself...
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..wil, Sat 16 Jun 2012, 19:20,
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