Modern Wisdom

Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• Information revision is the process between information intake and recall – our current education system often values the outcome more than the effort towards information recall
  • How we learn: spaced repetition, active recall, associations, desirable difficulty
  • While techniques should be used sparingly, they do help form better learning habits
• Learning and productivity often have uncorrelated misconceptions
  • Productivity is spending time well, not the time spent
  • “People spend the entire day in the library just to say they’ve spent the entire day in the library” – Chris Williamson
• Scheduling helps regulate our urge to reach for distractions
  • Don’t forget to schedule fun stuff too! This helps subdue any guilt from necessary downtime.
• Do your best! Simply having a positive mindset can be valuable for exam performance
• And much more on studying hacks, test day prep, and scheduling techniques…

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Jade Bowler is a YouTuber and an author.

It's weird that we spend the first 18 years of our lives desperately trying to study and revise for exams, but no one ever actually teaches us how to study or revise. Thankfully Jade is kind of a professional nerd and StudyTuber, and today she breaks down exactly what science says are the best ways to own an exam.

Expect to learn the fundamental principles for remembering anything, Jade's most effective strategies for revision, how to prepare for the final 24 hours before an exam, the biggest productivity mistakes which pretty much everyone makes and much more...

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