However, the subject under discussion is how to learn faster. Let us speed on. In the research that was shown on TV, rats, big rats, not mice, were put, one at a time, into a 3-foot diameter tub of water in which the only shallow water was right in the center. Whereas the exercised rats began to search the entire pond for a shallow spot after only 20 or 30 minutes. In most anamials, including humans, swimming in water over their heads promotes a rush of fear.
Fear can be motivational and somewhat instructional in itself.
In a second Allen Alder narrated TV show, a group of 30 humans were trained to improve their recall by converting words to pictures. The trained individuals were taught various ways to make a visual memory out of most any word. Training lasted about 30 days. The tests were difficult. We have been vastly underestimating the capacity of the learner.