How Learning Works: https://www.amazon.com/How-Learning-Works-Research-Based-Pri...

I also enjoyed https://www.amazon.com/Start-Story-Teaching-Journals-Collect...

(Caveat: not a professor, but that's the target audience for both books.)

Learning is a skill you can get better at, so it's just a dependency. Learning is not an unchangeable talent. Some books that will help you learn better:

* Power of Intuition, about naturalistic decision making - https://www.amazon.com/Power-Intuition-Feelings-Better-Decis...

* How Learning Works - https://www.amazon.com/How-Learning-Works-Research-Based-Pri... (my review: https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/03/19/how-learning-works/)

No doubt others can recommend more books.