Believe it or not, I heard this quote the other day while I was watching a baseball game. The color commentator, who, as color commentators usually are, is a former major league ballplayer, said it in reference to his belief that it is important for new, young ballplayers on a struggling team to show that …
“How You Walk Between Classes Shows Me How Much You Want To Learn” Read More »
You may recall that a few months ago, I wrote about the launch of my membership site, and how the launch did not go according to plan. One of the consequences of this challenge is that I was not able to time the launch for when you would be most interested in accessing the additional …
In my first post about memorization, which I wrote just after the death of Alex Trebek, I used the example of Jeopardy! to prove that there’s more to memorization than simply knowing the facts. I stressed that what makes Jeopardy! clues so varied, interesting, and memorable is that while some of them do only test …
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Whether you’ve already started your new school year or will start it sometime over these next few weeks, the one thing you all have in common is that it is time to make a fresh start. No matter how last year went for you or how you envision this year going, the beginning of a …
In my last post, I wrote about ways you can take the Olympic motto and apply it to your own life, as well as to your schoolwork and the development of your study skills. Though the Olympics had not yet started when I wrote it, I knew from having seen past Games, keeping up with …
The title of this post is the Olympic motto, and it means “faster, higher, stronger” in Latin. If you reflect on these words and their meanings, I’m sure it won’t be too difficult for you to relate them to the athletes who will compete over these next few weeks. Swimmers and runners will be looking …
I am sure your first reaction to the title of this post is to wonder how it is even possible not to become lazy in the summer, and that your second reaction is to call me a hypocrite for encouraging laziness in the summer after writing in an earlier post that I could not defend …
Enjoy the Lazy Days of Summer – Without Becoming Lazy! Read More »
I’m sure you must be wondering what Independence Day could possibly have to do with study skills. What the Founding Fathers desired when they fought for independence from Great Britain was the freedom to choose how to live their lives and determine their futures, and all these years later, that is what each of us …
You may recall that a few weeks ago, I wrote about the launch of my membership site. As with many things you may have experienced along your study skills journey and many things I have experienced both on my own study skills journey and through my journey to build this website, the launch did not …
In my previous posts that have been about continuing your study skills journey over extended break times, I have encouraged you to read as much as you possibly can, and especially, to read what you would like to read, whether any reading has been assigned to you or not. Just as vacations are a great …
