The Truth About Highlighters I’ve wasted hundreds of hours of my life, time that I will never get back just highlighting things. These are my notes from medical school. Look at this. Just pages and pages of endless highlighting. And I am so glad that I realized how useless this thing is before I graduated … Read more
Introduction You’re tired. You clicked on this because you’re probably exhausted. And when you’re exhausted for long enough, life sucks. And I’d love to tell you that you should just get more sleep. And you probably should, but sometimes that’s not possible or it’s not enough. For me, I have felt exhausted for almost as … Read more
Introduction I think it can be really difficult to stay consistently productive every single day. And if you’re struggling with it, there is nothing wrong with you. It is actually a little unnatural for a human to be so productive all the time. But the good news is that there are systems of productivity that … Read more
You’re Probably a Natural Deep Thinker If you feel like you’re pretty smart, you’ve always done pretty well, like you did well in school, you understand things more easily when other people struggle with it, then it probably means that you are a deep thinker. And when it comes to learning, this is actually quite … Read more
Introduction How do you start feeling overwhelmed and confused when you’re thinking about something tricky? You know that feeling when you’re trying to make a difficult decision or you’re working through a particularly complex problem and there’s so much going on that you don’t even know where to start. In those situations, how do you … Read more
Introduction There are some pieces of learning advice that are so common and feel so intuitive that everyone follows it. But if you do follow it, it’s going to make learning any new skill or knowledge be twice as hard and take twice as long. As a learning coach now for almost 15 years, I’ve … Read more
Introduction Everyone is learning about AI these days. If you don’t know what’s going on with AI, it feels like you’re leaving yourself in the dark. You might be worried that one day your boss is going to come knocking on your desk and say that they don’t need you anymore because AI can do … Read more
When I, as a learning coach, want to learn a new topic, one of the first things that I’ll do is go and buy a physical book. One of the reasons for that is because there’s a lot of research suggesting that your brain learns faster and easier from paper than it does from reading … Read more
A simple and practical guide to help you learn faster and remember more. Introduction: Why Learning Feels Hard Have you ever read a page and then realized you remember nothing from it? Or studied for hours and forgotten most of it after a few weeks? This happens to almost everyone. The problem is not your … Read more