Granted, success is at least partly almost whom you know.  Only for the almost part, success is about what you know -- and then what you actually do with the knowledge you've gained.

Then what can y'all do if you need remember, or better yet memorize, something of import?

According to new research published earlier this month in the scientific journalNeuron, stop studying in your part. Or in your home. Or anywhere yous're familiar. Written report in a place that's new to you lot.

While that might seem odd, since studying in an unfamiliar setting sounds distracting rather than conducive to learning, the opposite turns out to be truthful.

A fresh environment activates the dopamine arrangement in your brain, and dopamine promotes associative learning, triggering feelings of advantage that increase your brain'southward ability to absorb and retain data. (Associative learning is connecting a stimulus or action with a positive or negative event; think connecting the dots.)

In curt, the natural buzz you become from being somewhere new--or every bit the researchers call information technology, experiencing "inconsequential novel stimulus"--helps you learn more chop-chop.

"From a very applied perspective," the researchers write, "the results remind us to break our routine more often and seek out novel experiences to exist amend learners."

Demand to boom a new sales demo? Demand to nail a presentation? Need to retrieve a variety of facts and figures to support an thought? Study and rehearse somewhere new.

Just keep in mind that "new" actually does mean new.

"Strictly speaking," the researchers write, "annihilation is simply new the commencement fourth dimension nosotros perceive information technology."

Which means you'll constantly take to notice new places to study.

But since new can exist "inconsequential," where you become doesn't need to have a corking view. Or special ambience. Or social cachet.

To learn better and faster, where y'all go just has to be different.