Few things are more frustrating than feeling like your brain just won’t hold onto information.

You try to follow directions.

You lose track halfway through.

You ask a question that was just answered.

And eventually, you start wondering if something is wrong with you.

In this episode of Executive Function for All, Brandon sits down with Andrew Watson — former high school teacher, Harvard M.Ed. in Mind, Brain, and Education, and author of Learning Begins — to unpack the science of working memory.

Here’s the hard truth:

Working memory capacity is limited for everyone. And despite what some programs claim, research does not strongly support that we can artificially incre ...