7 Rules to Study & Learn Effectively

1. Test yourself Because it's hard

• Test-Enhanced Learning: Taking Memory Tests Improves Long-Term Retention(Psychological Science) ,

• Anki is a tool that really helped me : Download here

  • Recollection and Familiarity: Examining Controversial Assumptions and New Directions (Hippocampus)

2. Space out your study sessions

• Came across this first from Ali Abdaals video on how to study for exams , here

  • Distributed Practice in Verbal Recall Tasks: A Review and Quantitative Synthesis

3. Embrace active rest

• Rest , Why You Get More Done When You Work Less

• Study Habits of Highly Effective Medical Students (Advances in Medical Education and Practice)

4. Be intensional with your day

• Deep work , carl Newport

5. Build a simple Study system

• 4 Disciplines of execution

• Essentialism BY Greg McKeown

6. Focus on depth over length

• Terence Tao is one of the greatest mathematicians of our time he only study’s around 4 hours a day learn from this brilliant YouTube video

7. Eliminate obstacles

• iPhone and iPad I use , Burnout buddy and screen time passwords made up by people around me.

• On my MacBook I use the app 1Focus get it on App Store

• environment keep a journal to log when you get distracted jsut jot it down and just be mindful with what you are doing and why

• Read Atomic habits to help with this

Other Good resources

• Go watch all Andrew Huberman videos this one is great here

• Learning How to Learn: Free course

Hope you have a good rest of your week ❤️