Jemma Spike

I'm not going to tell you to use flashcards.

or to read the lecture notes or the Pomodoro technique.

We know that.

Those are tried and true.

We are talking instead the really strange things I would do based on research.

Because when you understand the psychology of how to study well, everything changes.

You end up studying less.

You have more time for you.

You get better grades because you essentially understand how to tune your brain to absorb knowledge.

efficiently if you just take notes in class and you highlight them and you know you repeat them to yourself that's level one I want to take you to level 10 of the study game using the science so I have I think six tips for you today things that the exact things I did to be high school valedictorian to get a national merit scholarship to maintain a near perfect GPA when I was at uni I

I know these work.

I have the evidence to back it up.

So without further ado, let's get into the best psychology hacks for studying.

Stay with us.

So when you're studying, whatever the subject is, the ultimate goal is to convert information from your short-term or working memory to your long-term memory.

And then I always like to think of another layer of this, which is your application memory.

Not just being able to recite, but to integrate into everyday experiences.

Seems like a simple formula.

Right.

But getting it to that long term application storage basically requires integrating the information in a significant way.