Beast Mode Study Part 1: The Power Duo

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Beast Mode Study Just as study is a way to remember topics, concepts, lessons the art of effective study, study itself, is also something that can be learned. And just as every new challenge has a learning curve, which is sometimes excruciating, so does learning how to study have its own exhausting trials. Once you get it though, – once it all clicks - look out world! There are tons of tips out there, but we can narrow it down to science backed, provably effective methods. Over the next few episodes I’ll share the most powerful methods of study, divided into bite sized chunks. The point of this is that, like course study itself, to try and consume everything at once will only leave us feeling bloated, heady and ready for a nap. Method 1: SPACED REPETITION Psychologist Herman Ebbinghaus was famous for studying his own memory and concepting what is called ‘The Forgetting Curve’. After we form a memory, over time we forget bits and pieces of the information used to create it. This is the Forgetting Curve. We can retain information by working on retrieving it at first often, then every once in a while, just as we begin to forget it. The problem of course is that we consume so much information that to use fact repeating exercises for everything would cause our heads to explode. Possibly literally. This is where the ‘Spaced Repetition’ steps up to the plate. A few years ago my Training Provider was being audited by an auditor who, when in conversation I mentioned how I used the concept of spaced repetition (I hadn’t come across that as a named, researched method at the time,) to help my students to lock in knowledge of individual units and concepts, was taken aback and not in a good way. She actually scolded me believe it or not! To paraphrase her, “If you are having to repeat your lessons then I guess you didn’t teach them well enough in the first place and

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