Changemaker Insights

Isabel Sum joins us in this episode to discuss how focus is a crucial part of achieving your goals.

Isabel talks about: 

• Setting goals and using these goals as a way to stay focused.
• How awareness is a key factor in being focused.
• Her study environment and what it looks like. 

Links:
The Pomodoro Technique

Habit stacking is a method of identifying current habits you do each day and then stacking a new behavior on top of that. It is highly effective as a learning tool and for learning motivation.  Richi Menning and Lisa Honold provide their insights into how they use habit stacking to help them with their studies.

Here, they explain: 

• How they identify learning habits they need within their studies
• How they go about improving their habits

Connect with Lisa on LinkedIn
Connect with Richi on LinkedIn

Links:
Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg
The Pomodoro Technique 

When it comes down to effective learning, one valuable learning method is that of teaching others, otherwise known as the Protégé effect.  This method shows that teaching, or even pretending to teach others can benefit you by helping them to understand that material better.

Join Denise Ludwig and Merle Becker as they discuss the benefits and effects of teaching others, both in their personal and professional life. 

Listen to hear them explain: 

• Situations on how they were able to deepen their learning by teaching others.
• The effects on their own learning through teaching others.
• How their motivation to learn increases as they get more involved in working with others.

Connect with Merle on LinkedIn
Connect with Denise on LinkedIn

Resources:

Expecting to teach enhances learning and organization of knowledge in free recall of text passages

Teachable Agents and the Protégé Effect: Increasing the Effort Towards Learning 

The Protégé Effect: How You Can Learn by Teaching Others

Claudia is a life coach who helps people working in start ups manage their energy better.  Listen here to her insight on how one stays focused and best practices to manage one's energy during their studies. Claudia focuses on:

• The type of passion and personality she sees in people who start up companies
• On reflection and making tough decisions
• The specific types of energy levels and what to focus on first

More information about Claudia can be found here: 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/claudialambrichs/

Website: https://www.claudialambrichs.com/