Study Less Learn More (Marty Lobdell)
Channel: PureBalance.
Date: 2023-09-06

* Stay 100 % focused for 
* Develop an off/on switch
* Study when you study and rest when you rest
* Structure your time before you dive into it
* Study smart

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Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:15 - Study breaks + Reward system
What to know:
- By rewarding yourself with satisfying experiences, you create good impression about studying and reinforce such idea.
What to do:
 -  Pomodoro Technique: gotta make the best out of these breaks 
- Give yourself a big treat again after done studying 

10:19: Dedicated Studying Area
What to do:
- Get a Study Lamp (exclusive for this) + a Study Table (stay away from the bed)
- Once you've completed your studying quarters (Pomodoro technique), get up and leave the place
- You're creating a study area where some of your specific behaviors are encouraged

19:49 Active learning
What to know: 
(1) it means that you actually understand the concepts since they're related to your previous knowledge. 
(2) you understand what you're doing this for rather than just superficially read or memorize them. You brain is very smart. If you speak meaningless words to it, there won't be any effect on it.

32:49 Study groups
What to know:
It's easier to learn from people sharing same experiences with us. These shared experiences allow them to connect their elaborations to our previous knowledge.

33:58 Recognition and recollection are 2 different things
What to know: Recollection happens when you can explain in your own words

36:57 Sleeping (REM)
What to do: Get enough sleep (8 hours) - enough REM - enough to consolidate and store our memories

39:09 Taking notes
What to know: Right after a class - sit down and expand on everything in your previous notes. Give it depth. Note down all of your impression.

41:20 Active recitation
What to know: 80% of our time is best spent on teaching it back. 
- teach an empty chair

43:22 SQ3R
What to know:
Survey + Question: Encourage you to look for answers

47:42 Acronyms + coin sayings + Interactive images
What to know: Creating an acronym/ Coining a saying is a way to make sense and make fun of facts.
Interactive messages: make everything seems weird (such a weird story!) - easier to recollect it next time