I enjoyed this book so much that I immediately restarted it as soon as I finished yesterday so that I could take notes the second time around (and it's a short enough read to do this).

Medina, a molecular biologist, writes this book not as a "best practice" but as a call for more research and study, which is such a scientifically minded approach that I couldn't help but like him. Beside that, the content of this book is clear enough to be easily understandable, but specific enough to make me feel that Medina is never talking down to his reader or dumbing down the information. Anyone who teaches, studies, leads meetings, presents to groups, or is just interested in the human brain and how we learn should give this a read.

And a quick note on Medina: he narrates this book himself and I'm so happy he did. His enthusiasm about the material is contagious (he sometimes is so excited that his voice gets high and cracks a bit), and I imagined him as the Neil deGrasse Tyson of molecular biology and neuroscience. He's obviously a giant nerd for his subject matter and I just loved listening to him talk about it. I do have one complaint about the audiobook, though, and it has to do with the quality of the recording. There are many spots when the sound of the recording shifts. This might have to do with re-recording changes to the material after the book was published, or it might have to do with sub-par sound editing. It's not awful, but it's quite obvious, especially if you're listening on headphones.