What if I told you that your focus was like a muscle. And that muscle could be improved by what you looked at, listened to, and even smelled before you study? In this episode of the student performance podcast, I am going to teach you the researched back ways to strengthen your focus so you can get more work done in a shorter amount of time.

90-Minute Ultradian Rhythm/Study Timer with 40Hz Binaural Beats 👇

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYq-Qzc2ths&t=1989s

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Timecodes:

0:00- Intro

1:56- Neurochemistry of Focus

3:54- Biggest Tool To Improve Attention

5:13- How Long Should You Study?

6:22- Giving Your 👀 a Break

8:29- Cold Showers Improve Learning and Attention!

9:08- How To Use Caffeine To Optimize Focus

10:26- Listening to THIS sound improves your Focus!

11:21- Social Vitality and Focus

12:29- How to Implement the Focus Tools In Your Life

18:01- Is the Pomodoro Technique Good For Productivity?

20:35- Outro

What if I told you that there was a way to juice your brain to make you learn faster, Llaser your focus, and 10x your motivation to study. Well according to Harvard Neuropsychiatrist Dr. John Ratey, that’s what happens when you study! In this episode of the Student Performance Podcast, I interview Dr. Ratey to unlock the secrets of your brain to help you learn more information in a shorter amount of time!

John J. Ratey, MD, is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and an internationally recognized expert in Neuropsychiatry. He has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles, and 11 books published in 17 languages, including the groundbreaking ADHD “Driven to Distraction” series with Ned Hallowell, MD. With the publication of "Spark:The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain", Dr. Ratey has established himself as one of the world's foremost authorities on the brain-fitness connection. His most recent book, “Go Wild”, explores how we can achieve optimal physical and mental health by getting in touch with our caveman roots, and how we can “re-wild” our lives.

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http://www.johnratey.com/Books.php

👇Check out Dr. Ratey’s website 👇

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Timecodes:

0:00- Intro

1:23- How Dr. Ratey Got Hist Start

4:12- What Happens in Our Brain When We Exercise?

7:23- The “Miracle Grow” For Our Learning

10:57- Specific Protocol to Maximize BDNF

15:00- What if you have not time to exercise?

20:04- Why Aren’t More People Talking about Exercise and the Brain?

22:19- Brain Health Initiative in Schools

25:52- Is Cardio or Strength Training Better for Your Brain?

27:54- Biggest Advice for Young People

29:39- Outro

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Timecodes:

0:00- Intro

0:32- How I Got The Internship of My Dreams!

7:12- Favorite Things to Watch

8:23- Morning Routine

13:15- What do you do for fun?

15:40- How To Overcome Test Anxiety

19:46- Overcoming Drama and Jealousy

22:19- Best IG Accounts to Follow

You need to WAKE UP! You’re treading water, your grades are sinking and the semester is about one more week from being flushed down the toilet! How many of you guys out there feel like that? Well if you do, not all hope is lost and you can still turn it around. But you have to act fast! That’s why in this episode of the student performance podcast, I’m going to give you a mid-semester study crash course to rescue your semester and get you back on track!

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📚Studying Book Recommendations 📚

Make It Stick

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Atomic Habits

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How To Take Smart Notes

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Timecodes:

0:00- Intro

1:41- Why Don’t We Study Consistently?

2:55- Section 1: Improve Your Sleep!

6:25- Section 2: How To Manage Your Time!

9:58- Section 3: Improve Your Studying!

16:17- How To Study While Burnt Out

18:32- How To Stay Focused While Studying

20:24- Outro

Imagine that you’re in medical school and were diagnosed with a rare condition that gave you a year to live. But imagine that the condition was so rare that none of your doctors knew how to treat it. So you said screw it, you’re going to do it yourself. You set out on a journey to find your own remedy even if it meant almost dying 5 times in the process. Meet Dr. David Fajgenbaum the man that found his own cure at 27 years old. In the episode of the student performance podcast, I interview Dr. Fajgenbaum to unlock the secrets of mental toughness, problem-solving, and hope that allowed him to accomplish the unthinkable.

David Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc, FCPP, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in Translational Medicine & Human Genetics at the University of Pennsylvania, Founding Director of the Center for Cytokine Storm Treatment & Laboratory (CSTL), Associate Director, Patient Impact of the Penn Orphan Disease Center, and Co-Founder/President of the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network (CDCN). He is also the national bestselling author of 'Chasing My Cure: A Doctor's Race to Turn Hope Into Action and a patient battling idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease (iMCD). He is in his longest remission ever thanks to a precision treatment that he identified, which had never been used before for iMCD. He has also identified and/or advanced 9 other treatment approaches for iMCD and cancer.

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Timecodes:

0:00- Intro

2:27- The Impact of Mom’s Passing in College

4:39- AMF and How to Start a Premed Club

9:28- Getting a Masters Degree at Oxford

12:51- Almost Dying FIVE Times in 3 Years!

14:48- Turning Hope into Action

16:48- Chasing His Own Cure as a Med Student

20:15- Overcoming Superiors Doubting Him

23:20- Using Past Experiences to Find Cure

25:15- What To Do at a Dead End

28:20- Using Workouts for Mental Toughness

29:37- The Moment He Found His Cure

32:54- Drug Repurposing to Cure EVERY Disease

36:39- Biggest Advice for Young People

38:29- Mom’s Newspaper Clipping

40:58- Outro

What I told you that Dr. Allan Mishra could give you the tools to improve your time-management, sense of purpose, and mental health in a million seconds. Well, in this episode of the student performance podcast, Dr. Allan Mishra empowers you to perform the million-second student challenge to improve your grades and student vitality.

Dr. Allan Mishra is an Adjunct Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Stanford School of Medicine. He was one of the pioneers in the field of regenerative medicine and was the first scientist to figure out that when you isolate specific components from your blood they have the ability to regrow tissue and heal sports injuries. This has led him to be on the cover of the New York Times and address the United Nations. When Dr. Mishra isn’t busy creating a field of medicine he teaches vitality at Stanford’s Continuous Studies Program which we’ll dive deeper into in this episode.

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Timecodes:

0:00- Intro

2:27- How Dr. Mishra and I Met

5:57- The Million Second Challenge

9:17- What is Vitality?

12:56- What’s The #1 Thing Young People Neglect?

18:00- Improve Your Time-Management By Doing This

20:28- Take a Tranquility Timeout

23:10- Dr. Mishra’s Biggest Advice to Young People

27:00- What is VitalityExplorers.com ?

29:18- Outro

What if I told you that changing the way you THINK about school could make you learn like Einstein, be as creative as Picasso, and help you perform under pressure like Kobe. Well, that’s what happens when you adopt the growth mindset.

In this episode of the student performance podcast, we are uncovering the Mental Secrets of the all-time greats to help you become the best version of yourself.

Studies Highlighted in this Episode

Praise for intelligence can undermine children's motivation and performance

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1998-04530-003

Clarifying achievement goals and their impact

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14498789/

Growing a growth mindset: characterizing how and why undergraduate students’ mindsets change

https://www.heidigrantphd.com/about

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📚Mindset Book Recommendations 📚

Mindset

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Peak

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What if I told you that performing a 13-minute exercise while laying down could DRASTICALLY improve your focus, memory, mood, and mental health. Well, you're in luck because the science says that's what happens when you meditate!

In this episode of the student performance podcast, we are channeling our inner Buddha to explore the cognitive benefits of meditation to help you achieve stress-free straight-A’s!

Studies Highlighted in this Episode:

Brief, daily meditation enhances attention, memory, mood, and emotional regulation in non-experienced meditators https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S016643281830322X?via%3Dihub

The Effectiveness of a Centering Meditation Intervention on College Stress and Mindfulness: A Randomized Controlled Trial https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S016643281830322X?via%3Dihub

Effects of the Transcendental Meditation Technique on Trait Anxiety: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/acm.2013.0204

Youtube Meditation Walk-throughs

Transcendental Guided Meditation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oCJ1MIjEF4&t=1s

Yoga Nidra Guided Meditation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H0FKzeuVVs

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📚Meditation Book Recommendations 📚

Into The Magic Shop

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Joy On Demand

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Timecodes:

0:00- Intro

1:39- The Science Behind Meditation

3:00- Focused Meditation

4:15- 13 Minute Focused Meditation Protocol

5:35- Mindfulness Meditation

7:44- Transcendental Meditation

8:20- Yoga Nidra/ Non-Sleep Deep Rest

9:13- High School Meditation Protocol

9:44- College Student Meditation Protocol

10:26- Graduate Student Meditation Protocol

10:56- Meditation Book Recommendations

12:30- Q&A- What’s the Best Way to Start Meditating

13:21- Q&A- What is the Optimal Meditation Protocol

14:41- Outro

What if I told you that improving your willpower had nothing to do with your motivation or mental toughness? Would you believe me if I said that I could 10x your Willpower and Discipline in 20 minutes just by making a few changes to your environment and daily routine?   

Well in this Episode of the Student Performance Podcast, we are diving into the science and application of Willpower to help you get more work done in less time.  

Studies Highlighted In This Episode:  

Ego Depletion: Is the Active Self a Limited Resource? 

https://faculty.washington.edu/jdb/345/345%20Articles/Baumeister%20et%20al.%20%281998%29.pdf 

Ego depletion--is it all in your head? implicit theories about willpower affect self-regulation 

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20876879/ 

The Cost of Interrupted Work: More Speed and Stress 

https://www.ics.uci.edu/~gmark/chi08-mark.pdf   

Measuring Coaching ROI 

https://www.td.org/insights/measuring-coaching-roi   

The effects of breakfast on behavior and academic performance in children and adolescents 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3737458/ 

Environmental Disorder Leads to Self-Regulatory Failure 

https://academic.oup.com/jcr/article-abstract/40/6/1203/2907525?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false 

Self-Control and Exercise: A Review of the Bi-Directional Relationship 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6971834/   

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📚Willpower Book Recommendations 📚  

Willpower 

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Indistractable  

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Timecodes:  

0:00- Intro 

1:52- The Science of Willpower  

2:27- Your Willpower Phone Battery (Ego Depletion) 

5:02- #1 Tip in Improving Your Willpower! 

7:35- Tip 2: Setting Rewards 

8:55- Tip 3: Accountability Partners 

10:01- Tip 4: Fueling Your Willpower 

11:01- Tip 5: Tidying Up Your Study Space 

11:54- Tip 6: Strengthening Your Willpower Muscle 💪 

12:58- Improve Willpower as a High School Student 

13:38-  Improve Willpower as a College Student 

14:20-  Improve Willpower as a Graduate Student 

15:10-  Improve Willpower while working full-time  

15:54- Q&A- Improve Your Willpower to Wake up Early  

17:19- Outro