Nick | Social Authority on Instagram: "1. A Stanford philosophy professor told Thiel why straight-A students rarely become innovators: memorization and understanding are neurologically opposite. Your hippocampus has limited bandwidth. It can either store new information or synthesize existing information, not both. When you cram for exams, you force storage mode which shuts down pattern recognition. You recall facts but can’t see how they connect. This kills breakthrough thinking. 2. MIT tested